Thanks, thanks for nothin people. Preciated the Readers Digest Version from exactly no one & had to go Swamping 1st thing to find out what was happenin. Not much apparently.
Who here wishes their city had a GWI scrutinizing their cities affairs?
We do here in Vancouver. Protesting is a profession for many. Nationally of course we have the Auditor General's Office (Sheila Fraser), her reports generally motivating any number of organizations to go ballistic.
I thought that one of the avenues for making this deal happen was for either Hulsizer or the NHL to alter the terms of the deal somewhat to make it more palatable for the GWI, but that now appears out of the question. Frankly, that is very surprising to me.
Really?. Im not in the least bit surprised Whileee and neither should you be based on your insightful posts throughout this process. You yourself have posited, as have I and many many others that both positions are entrenched and intractable; that Hulsizer is not going to "up the ante'" nor can the COG do much more going reverse or forward pursuant to the terms; the NHL isnt going to drop its asking price or provide financing; it doesnt even matter if the deals legal or not anymore as were well past the point of return. Frankly, all yesterdays Bettman/Daly junket to Phoenix was about was to point the finger at GW with one hand while holding out the other to the COG with a demand for another $40M for Hulsizer. What do you think of that?. Transparent & quite appalling really.
I think that under the guise of being "accountable to the taxpayers" they are just piling onto the swelling tea party movement and see this as an easy victory that will get them wide spread attention and in some way shape or from promotions.
Absolutely. They dont have to drop the writ, let Glendale. They can claim victory and fatten their donation chests with claims of "how we took down the NHL and Glendale, saving the taxpayers from financial Armageddon and elected officials from themselves". Alrighty then.
Any chance we can get back to focusing on the sale of this team? This thread had once again become overrun by the same old discussions on Winnipeg and Bettman.
10 minutes to weigh through it. So ya, please stop it people. What jesse says...
“I may sue the city in attempt to find out,” Lieberman said. [/I]
Truth in humor.
city claims no meetings with GWI, GWI states over a dozen meetings, therefore GWI says future meeting must be in public forum
I tend to go with the GWI's take on this. Why the COG would deny any meeting took place at all is just plain vile... Hulsizer claimed to have met with them in December; this mess ameliorated & dealt with ages ago had anything truly positive been accomplished in said meetings.
They're not going to back down, basically the gist of it.
Not a chance. Lookit all the clicks & publicity their getting locally, state wide & nationally.
Unless you're talking about the NHL in which case you're right. the NHL has never wanted to be a committed owner.
OT a bit, but really, my idea was that they shouldve' been (a committed owner) & backed up their mouths with their wallets, hung onto & run the Coyotes themselves & been a pro-active vendor in turning the teams financial woes around & working with the COG in securing GOOD OWNERSHIP 3-5yrs out. Sure, Moyes left the property in a shambles, gutted the plumbing & wiring, lifted out the floors & stripped the roofing clean off, however, the NHL owns it, so deal with it instead of calling in the house movers. But I guess that'd be too much work, too much responsibility, too expensive for a league claiming billions in revenues huh?. And please, spare yourself the trouble of trying to argue that the leagues not in the business of owning & running franchises. You'll get peppered & pickled; hoisted on your own petard. Just sit on it Sisters & Brothers....