also, the nets and devils dont share an arena, and the nets are moving.

They will be sharing an arena, whatever, it's all the same.

You really need to nitpick a post like that?

Also what is your source, all I was able to find on the matter was 2 guys blogs.

I'm curious as to your source; particularly because I'd like to see if it was an actual financial analyst, journalist, or some blogger who's just speculating. Thats the one thing I hate about blogging, anybody can make their page look semi-professional, and spit ball his ideas on a person, and try to make themselves seem credible.

Yea, just until the new Barclays Arena you were talking about is done. Just looked it up.

However, they might now, because there's apparently a shit-ton of legal crap surrounding all of this business.

i, too, looked it up, and barclays is underway, and all legal crap is in the past.

so they are moving from a crap arena, to a nice arena, to a beautiful new arena in 3 years. STUPID.

Well, the difference here is that Paul Allen owns the Rose Garden, whereas The Rock is owned by the city of Newark.

A lot of people (beat writers, team people with the TBlazers) believe that Paul Allen doesn't want to take the financial gamble of investing in an NHL team, what with the immense costs of a professional hockey team (boards, cooling system, zambonis, equipment, payroll, etc etc). We're talking hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars to renovate and retrofit an existing (and pretty old) arena alone, and on top of that is the yearly upkeep and pay roll. He's looking at an inital investment of 400 to 500 million right off the bat, possibly.

Then you've got the possibility of Paul Allen leasing out the arena to a prospective owner, but even then he'd either have to front the costs of retrofitting the arena for hockey use, or he'd have to trust that the owner will front the costs for it. Do you think Paul Allen really wants to be on the wrong end of an owner defaulting on expensive payments (a la Tom Hicks and his half a billion in owed lease payments in Dallas)?

No need for violence, just tell her she's got a game misconduct and show her the door.

As I said in the GDT, the call on Rivet was horseshit. The Bruins player was holding onto Rivet's stick like it was the last fucking raft on the Titanic.

No need for violence, just tell her she's got a game misconduct and show her the door.

As I said in the GDT, the call on Rivet was horseshit. The Bruins player was holding onto Rivet's stick like it was the last fucking raft on the Titanic.

The Redwings lose money? I don't think that is possible for that team to lose money.