Sunday's Coyotes Tracks - Expansion to GTA Dead?

A potential NHL expansion location could be eliminated while the Islanders are in no hurry to rush to Brooklyn.

By Jaime Eisner Aug 18, 2013, 7:00am MST

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Phoenix Coyotes’ Paul ‘Biznasty’ Bissonnette proves players willing to bite back online - AZCentral.com
And you thought the Diamondbacks-Pirates series was the best Phoenix-Pittsburgh showdown going on. Not even close.

Phoenix Coyotes Preseason Countdown: 29 Days - Five For Howling
In today's Countdown we look at a former Coyote who is still a part of the Valley hockey scene.

News From Around the Hockey World

Chances for second Toronto-area NHL team could be dead by September - The Hockey News
The deputy mayor of Markham will put forth a motion to kill the arena deal that would need to be in place for another NHL team in Ontario.

Hockey boycott of Sochi Olympics to protest anti-gay laws? Yeah, not so much - Yahoo! Sports
Pierre Martin is a professor of political science at the Université de Montréal, thinks the best protest is invisibility.

No creep to Brooklyn? Theory on New York Islanders staying at Nassau Coliseum - Yahoo! Sports
This week, we learned a few things from Ratner about the Isles: That they’re expected to remain in the dilapidated Nassau Coliseum until at least 2015; that he expects they’ll play a few games on Long Island even after they relocate boroughs.

Should the NHL ditch their "loser point" system? - Hockey Wilderness
Many of these fans are hockey purists that also don't like the shootout, but that's a conversation for another day.

The Final Howl

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