It (GWI challenging that) would surprise me.
Today, I take those sides at face value. Because I don't have to take them at face value for two weeks. So they say: RSE & NHL can't accept the proposal, and it's dead if CoG doesn't drop their out clause. And until I hear different from CoG, they won't drop the out clause. Perhaps the discussions at the open meeting will shift them off that, but until they say that, I won't expect it. Should have an idea within 24 hours.
I get that people who either just don't want hockey here (local or distant people) or people who want a team somewhere else and see the relocation of this team as their next best chance to get one where they want it might risk overheating their brainpan trying to think of ways this could derail... when it already appears heading for the cliff.
Imagine if the Coyotes move to Quebec City, stay the Coyotes, aren't changed to the Nords, the locals, outraged at that horrific atrocious injustice, stay home the first year in big numbers, until the playoffs when they can't help themselves. And the QC Coyotes win the Cup. And then they win it again, and a couple years later, and in 12 years are the most profitable dynasty in pro sports. Will Jets fans be envious, if the Jets wind up the doormats that the Coyotes were here, and they got stuck with the Thrashers?
You know the vindictive will insist that the Coyotes name and history be erased from the minds of those from QC, as if they never existed, and as if the Nords never went to Colorado, but just took all those years off. So that when the team succeeds and wins Cup, they can gloat and cheer and snicker "Coyotes? What's that? Never heard of them!"
Or, at least, THAT would not surprise me.
24 hours. How many threads in the next 24 hours would surprise you? What is the over & Under on that for vcash?
