How Coyotes Sale Could Close Tuesday
Tuesday will be a big day in Glendale. I can see it unfolding something like this:
1:29 pm -- Council votes "aye" on the new lease.
1:31 pm -- Council goes into Executive Session. With the public gone, Beasley walks into back room where Hulsizer is waiting and the docs are signed.
1:34 pm -- Beasley gets on the red phone to conference with Bettman and the BOG and MH is approved.
1:40 pm -- The call is placed to sell the bonds.
1:45 pm -- Bonds are all sold.
1:46 pm -- Beasley is back on the red phone and tells Bettman, "The Pack is safe in its Den; I repeat, "the Pack is safe in its Den."
1:48 pm -- Bettman hastily schedules a news conference.
1:50 pm -- Reporters scramble to find out why.
1:51 pm -- David Shoalts gets call from an NHL source, who tells him significant new information has come to light regarding Ice Edge Holdings, and that Commissioner will announce the sales effort in Phoenix is over.
1:53 pm -- Shoalts files an "EXCLUSIVE" that sources confirm sale is dead, Ice Edge the cause, and the Jets are coming back to Winnipeg.
1:55 pm -- Media across Canada pick up the story.
2:01 pm -- A National Holiday is called in Winnipeg. Employers tell employees to take to the streets and celebrate, like Egyptians did.
2:05 pm -- Every bar in Winnipeg is filled. Streets are empty.
2:10 pm -- Canadian television interrupts all broadcasts with BREAKING NEWS, and goes live to New York for the announcement.
2:12 pm -- Bettman steps to the mike and announces Coyotes sale to MH has been completed. Coyotes will remain in Phoenix.
2:12:24 pm -- Deafening silence in the room until a voice in the back shouts, "Mr Beelzebub, Mr Beelzebub, what about Ice Edge? Sources in your office confirmed not 20 minutes ago new information had come to light about Ice Edge and it is the reason the sale effort ended."
2:13 pm -- Bettman announces clients of Ice Edge's Wall Street business bought the bonds.
2:14 pm -- Globe announces Shoalts has been named its new Bureau Chief in Winnipeg.
2:15 pm -- Globe's Winnipeg bureau reports a sale of the Atlanta Thrashers to TNSE is imminent.
2:18 pm -- GWI gets a call the sale is completed. Responds, "Curses, foiled again." Returns to its top case, fighting for direct taxpayer subsidies to private schools owned by business executives and tax-exempt religious organizations.
Book it!
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Brought a smile to my face
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well done sir.
I can’t wait for 2:12 PM now to see if you’re right!:)
I think this baby deserves about 12-13 recs:)
Lets go FFHers, make it happen!
Sooo
Tick Tock.
Still waiting for this deal to close :)
This is getting asinine
I am this close to saying “screw it” as far as this sale is going. From the bond issue problem to the farking GWI sticking their nose in and threatening a lawsuit at the last possible moment, I’ve had about enough of this.
I will admit that this is not exactly the best deal put on the table but Glendale was in panic mode and had to do something. As for GWI, I understand their position and that is to protect the tax payers. Laudable yet somehow, they are now showing their true colors and it’s no longer about the taxpayer but about how they have the “clout” to take down the big bad NHL. This is more of a pissing war between GWI and the COG/NHL then about the bond issue.
And by having GWI threaten a lawsuit, it’s making the bond issue even worse! Morons.
In a perfect world, a potential owner would have fronted ALL the money to buy the team. Then we wouldn’t be in the mess that we have now. Perhaps taking Balsillie’s money, have the Yotes move, and then get an expansion/relocated team might have been the best way to go.
I still have hope that this will be resolved but that hope is diminishing fast.
What a dreamer
Two months later and you’ve had enough time for the reality to settle in. Never happened that way. Sadly….never will either.
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GWI is meeting with the City council or something like that tomorrow…. I guess we will know then?

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