I think it would, especially with Minnesota and Chicago also having teams. Hey commish, the great white north is calling your wayward (southern) sons home!

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"Call a cop he robbed Delmore blind!!!"
Rick Jeanerette after Marty Biron's diving save back in 2000.

"I'm going to go to the spa and have a hot tub and massage and relax," Miller said. "That's it, and it's back to work tomorrow." Ryan Miller after clinching the North East division.

A team like Atlanta or Florida could move to Wisconsin, and then Nashville could be switched from the Central division to the Southeast division.

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wisonsin is an ok state, and they love the badgers hockey there, forsure. only issue being is milwaukee is like, an hour? from chicago?

if milwaukee built a new arena for them and the bucks, yeah, i could see it working. i had no idea milwaukee was as big as it is.

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It's worked fine for the Bucks and Brewers, not to mention the Admirals-Wolves rivalry. And the Admirals already use the arena, maybe the could relocate the admirals to madison?

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"Call a cop he robbed Delmore blind!!!"
Rick Jeanerette after Marty Biron's diving save back in 2000.

"I'm going to go to the spa and have a hot tub and massage and relax," Miller said. "That's it, and it's back to work tomorrow." Ryan Miller after clinching the North East division.

Milwaukee should have a team and I don't know why they don't, just wait we will probably see it happen soon.

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well, the city agrees to cover the loses of the franchise. the NHL stays in arizona.

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I predict lawsuits over that.

A public entity subsidizing private businesses in that fashion isn't going to sit well with the residents of Glendale, and according to some Phoenix area business journals, it might not even be legal.

For the 2010-2011 season, nothing was really mentioned about after next year

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To that effect, Ice Edge Holdings has retained a constitutional law student from Harvard in case a brouhaha arises.

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mechaphil

It sure is fun to twist in the wind...

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/True-North-a-bona-fide-owner-waiting-for-Coyotes-94666154.html

True North confirmed as owner in waiting

The NHL has told the City of Glendale to sell the Phoenix Coyotes to a buyer willing to keep them in Arizona by Dec. 31 or the team will be moved to Winnipeg.

True North Sports and Entertainment, a group led by Mark Chipman and David Thomson, have had the framework of a relocation deal in place with the league for some time, and is the third party the league is referring to in an agreement reached between the NHL and the city of Glendale on Friday.

A document sent by the league to the city of Glendale last week says the NHL has a bona-fide offer from a viable purchaser who would relocate the hockey team to another market for the 2010-11 season and contemplates that the owners (the NHL) would break even on their investment in the team through the end of the 2009-10 NHL season as well as the NHL potentially receiving a relocation fee.

True North had no comment when reached on Saturday, but the Free Press has learned they are the third party the league refers to in the agreement.

On Friday the City of Glendale reached an agreement with the league to cover operating costs up to US$25 million to keep the Coyotes in Jobing.com Arena for the 2010-11 NHL season.

The league has held discussions with the Ice Edge group and Jerry Reinsdorf, who owns the Chicago Bulls and Chicago Whitesox. Both say they want to keep the Coyotes in Phoenix.

It is believed Ice Edge isn’t interested in further talks without exclusivity that would make it the only prospective buyer to keep the team in Arizona.

"The owners currently have a bona-fide offer from a viable purchaser who would relocate the hockey team to another market for the 2010-11 season and contemplates that the owners [the NHL] would break even on their investment in the team through the end of the 2009-10 NHL season as well as the NHL potentially receiving a relocation fee..." the document obtained by the Globe reads.

The statements in the agreement mark the first published relocation deadline for the City of Glendale, and the first reference to a "bona-fide" owner waiting to purchase the team with the intent to relocate, since the Coyotes' fomer owner Jerry Moyes filed for bankruptcy on May 5, 2009.

While no direct mention of a specific ownership group was made in the agreement, CBC hockey analyst Don Cherry leveraged the Globe story during the Stanley Cup playoff broadcast of the Montreal/Philadelphia game Saturday afternoon to restate his belief that the Coyotes are on their way back to Winnipeg.

So, it appears that IF the Coyotes DON'T get sold by Dec.31, Then they'll be moving to Winnipeg.... Maybe

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Reporter: "Steve, you guys now lead the league in defensive scoring."
Montador: "It's probably because of how good-looking we are."

....PULL THE CHORD ON ARIZONA ALREADY!

this is obnoxious. its fucking obnoxious. do it or dont.

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http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=5230301

sale of coyotes expected this summer to keep the team down there, i guess.

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Several independent reports say that the NHL has yet to find a buyer to keep the team in Glendale and that they had hoped to by June 1. The longer they go without finding one, the less likely it is that they will at all.

Meanwhile, True North is quietly yet aggressively pursuing the team. The NHL itself today called MTS Centre "an NHL-ready facility."

Keep hope alive, Winnipeggers.

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mechaphil

Winnipeggers=

im crossed on whether or not the team should move. while hockey has no real place in the desert the team had a surprising turn around this year. if they can keep it up i dont really see why they should move.

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http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=5253711

ice edge gains exclusivity. one step closer to ice edge taking control of the team. i really think the window for the yotes to move is closing.

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It amuses me that you get so much of your NHL news from ESPN, I don't know why

I don't want the Coyotes to stay in Glendale.

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mechaphil

i think espn is better then alot of sites, and i HATE nhl.com.

so its either espn or tsn.ca which are the same damn thing.

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Just because they're both owned by the same parent company and share the same logo (with the obvious slight difference in spelling), doesn't mean they're the same thing. TSN shows an obvious commitment to reporting on Canada's game, in both the quickness and thoroughness of their stories.

Well all have our preferences. Ours are different.

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mechaphil

eh, most stories are written by the AP, so its the same whether you go to espn, cbs, fox sports, or whatever. tsn.ca is more in depth, yeah, and you find AHL info, but most of the time, the stories are so menial, i dont give a shit one way or the other. if its not sabre related, i dont care.

hell, i havnt even watched the cup finals. no idea whats going on in em.

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