New On HockeyTalk: Let The Coyotes Move Already

10 May, 2009 | by Keith

Gann Matsuda is back to the blog on HockeyTalk.biz talking about the troubled franchise known as the Phoenix Coyotes. I personally think they should be re-located and that Jim Balsillie would be a great owner. What do you think?

LOS ANGELES — The last thing commissioner Gary Bettman and the National Hockey League wants during the Stanley Cup Playoffs is embarrassing controversy off the ice and that is exactly what they have with the Phoenix Coyotes filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in recent days.

To be sure, there is a great deal of controversy brewing over whether or not Coyotes majority owner Jerry Moyes had the authority to file for bankruptcy and move to sell the Coyotes to Jim Balsillie, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Research In Motion, Inc., the makers of the wildly popular Blackberry.

Balsillie, who also attempted to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Nashville Predators (both attempts failed), would like to move the Coyotes to Hamilton, Ontario’s Copps Coliseum.

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  • Good read. I have made a twitter post about this. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.
  • A team in Las Vegas would make complete sense in terms of re-shuffling the Pacific division but Vegas would be too eerily similar to the Phoenix market. It's not exactly a huge sports scene (well, at least not since the early 90's UNLV basketball hey day.) I think Vancouver would make sense in terms of geography but then you have purists who would be pissed about the Nucks' playing the Flames and Oilers less (I don't give a shit but they will.) The next logical pick would be Colorado, like it used to be, but then you're killing their pretty strong rivalries with Vancouver and Calgary. Bottom line is: Phoenix has no rivalry with anyone and would be completely forgotten AND Bettman is a d-bag and won't let any moves happen anyway.
  • Chris Kaliszewski
    A team in Las Vegas would make complete sense in terms of re-shuffling the Pacific division but Vegas would be too eerily similar to the Phoenix market. It's not exactly a huge sports scene (well, at least not since the early 90's UNLV basketball hey day.) I think Vancouver would make sense in terms of geography but then you have purists who would be pissed about the Nucks' playing the Flames and Oilers less (I don't give a shit but they will.) The next logical pick would be Colorado, like it used to be, but then you're killing their pretty strong rivalries with Vancouver and Calgary. Bottom line is: Phoenix has no rivalry with anyone and would be completely forgotten AND Bettman is a d-bag and won't let any moves happen anyway.
  • Well, Balsille has always wanted a franchise in Southern Ontario (Hamilton) so the question would be how to re-align the divisions. I'd assume Vancouver would become part of the Pacific but the travel blows. Bottom line, putting an arena in Glendale, AZ was a poor idea. Here's a better one. Move Phoenix to Hamilton and Florida to Las Vegas (Jerry Bruckheimer has always wanted a franchise). Problem solved!
  • Question is, where do the Coyotes go and how does that reshape the division?
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