ATTN NHL Fans: Coyotes to Seattle is Plan B?

[CPHawk]

Paul Allen has the money and has shown he will spend it, the NHL would be foolish not to listen to what he has to offer.

 

[ShyCheetah]

Ready for plan B again? League to take over NJ Devils with no plans for relocation... something sounds familliar. Altgou this time the owner can't pay for his brand new building despite pretty good attendance. I think there are a few teams out there in trouble that the league is keeping quiet about. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=429396

 

[Sports Hernia]

Do they like to "park" in New Jersey? If so we have no chance!

 

[CPHawk]

Seattle wasn't even plan B, Paul Allen was ready to bring the team to Portland if it fell through with Phx, but he didn't want to be used like Seattle so they stayed quit in the media. Expect he and his group will watch this situation as well.

 

[m0ng0]

Seattle wasn't even plan B, Paul Allen was ready to bring the team to Portland if it fell through with Phx, but he didn't want to be used like Seattle so they stayed quit in the media. Expect he and his group will watch this situation as well.

I get this feeling also.

Allen's group: is the team for sale? Yes? We'll take it. 8)

 

[pinksheets]

I'd love confirmation that Portland was truly Plan B. The NHL wants Seattle far more. Allen has the money, but when it comes to a league decision like the movement of a team they own or expansion, they're going to go after Seattle and locking down its building plan well before they make a move to Portland.

 

[CPHawk]

I'd love confirmation that Portland was truly Plan B. The NHL wants Seattle far more. Allen has the money, but when it comes to a league decision like the movement of a team they own or expansion, they're going to go after Seattle and locking down its building plan well before they make a move to Portland.

Portland has been on the radar for at least the last 12 years. They where very close to getting the Penguins before Lemeuix saved them from BK.

 

[Throwdown]

PDX wants to be big league so bad.

 

[m0ng0]

http://www.csnnw.com/blog/dwight/trail- ... hl-coyotes

If the Yotes were to be sold who do you think the NHL would rather have? Someone who got screwed by the nba already and has no building other then plans on paper OR one of the richest men in the world that already successfully runs 2 teams and has a beautiful NHL ready building?

This is not meant to be a slight on you folks in seattle, but its not rocket science.

 

[m0ng0]

also this little nugget was gleaned from the Devils article posted "The team will not relocate, the source said, adding that Vanberbeek will retain a minority ownership with the Devils."

 

[pinksheets]

In a few months time the Seattle arena will be pretty much shovel ready. The NHL can have flirted with PDX for a hundred years for all I care, if the Seattle building gets locked down one way or another, there's no competition between the two markets.

 

[CPHawk]

In a few months time the Seattle arena will be pretty much shovel ready. The NHL can have flirted with PDX for a hundred years for all I care, if the Seattle building gets locked down one way or another, there's no competition between the two markets.

And no ownership group will bring a fraction of what Paul Allen can bring to the table.

 

[pinksheets]

In a few months time the Seattle arena will be pretty much shovel ready. The NHL can have flirted with PDX for a hundred years for all I care, if the Seattle building gets locked down one way or another, there's no competition between the two markets.

And no ownership group will bring a fraction of what Paul Allen can bring to the table.

That'll work to your advantage when he's buying from a selling owner, but when it's an NHL decision that the commissioner has his hands all over, the league will pick Seattle. They're going to want the significantly better market.

 

[m0ng0]

oh really then why did the Atlanta Thrashers go to the HUGE metropolis of Winnepeg?

 

[Throwdown]

The then owner of he Thrasher sold the team to Winnepeg investors, the Coyotes were owned by the NHL, NHL also told the Canucks minor league affiliate that the Key was being held and spoken for while all this was going down.

 

[m0ng0]

my point was the nhl does not care about media market size per se.

 

[Throwdown]

ATL also never caught on to hockey either, it was a better move to move them back to a Canadian market that was hungry.

We're talking about 2 unproven markets in SEA & PDX, I would hope business sense would prevail and the larger market would get the shot first like what the MLS did.

 

[Sports Hernia]

http://www.csnnw.com/blog/dwight/trail-blazers-were-interested-purchasing-nhl-coyotes

If the Yotes were to be sold who do you think the NHL would rather have? Someone who got screwed by the nba already and has no building other then plans on paper OR one of the richest men in the world that already successfully runs 2 teams and has a beautiful NHL ready building?

This is not meant to be a slight on you folks in seattle, but its not rocket science.

Well according to that logic, the NBA would have approved the sale of the kings to Chris Hanson and Seattle too. Things always are not as cut and dried as it seems, especially when it comes to sports leagues and their monopoly's!

 

[CPHawk]

So a guy who lives in graham is putting down Portland?

 

[Throwdown]

I'm not putting it down, young lady.