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Re: NHL - cferneyh - 05-07-2008

Corpse Wrote:It's easier to bust on my Leaf freinds when they suck

You've got nothing to worry about anytime soon.

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Re: NHL - opiated - 05-07-2008

I'm wondering if AV stays in Vancouver....if not, would he be a good fit in Toronto?

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Re: NHL - opiated - 05-07-2008

Nonis eh?

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Re: NHL - laliber - 05-07-2008

As Howie Meeker would say “Golly Gee Whiz”….

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Re: NHL - cochise - 05-07-2008

opiated Wrote:Nonis eh?

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Ya, I read that earlier. Made me wonder if it has anything to do with this Fabian Brunnstrum kid? Didn't Nonis have a deal all but done for him to come to Vancouver just before he was fired?

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Re: NHL - opiated - 05-07-2008

apparently Nonis had the kid all locked up and signed yeah..and now he wants nothing to do with Vancouver..

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Re: NHL - tommygunn - 05-07-2008

ryan93 Wrote:Pat Burns is reading to return to coaching, wonder if he'd consider the Leafs...and vice versa.

Reading? :what

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Re: NHL - robert goulet - 05-08-2008

Nonis???? This guy reeks of being just as clueless as JFJ. I just have a bad feeling about this guy. He sure didn't do a hell of a lot in Vancouver. Yes he made the deal for Luongo but I think you need more than 1 successful move to qualify yourself as a good GM.

I'd take another year of the Cliff "walking corpse" Fletcher before we took a flyer on another unproven GM.

I really like what Burke brings to the table. He would bring instant credibility, a commitment to action and a sense of what it takes to build a successful team in the NHL's new landscape.

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Re: NHL - The Darkest Canuck - 05-08-2008

I've heard rumours that it'll end up being Doug Gilmour...

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Re: NHL - ryan93 - 05-08-2008

tommygunn Wrote:

ryan93 Wrote:Pat Burns is reading to return to coaching, wonder if he'd consider the Leafs...and vice versa.

Reading? :what

haha yeah i noticed that after i had posted it, but didn't bother correcting it...."ready"...

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Re: NHL - cochise - 05-08-2008

Interesting.........

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not really sure what i think of this. I like Tortrella half the time and I absolutely despise him the other half.............could be the kick Toronto needs though

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Re: NHL - Lizard King - 05-08-2008

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Re: NHL - ryan93 - 05-08-2008

I don't know too much about him, but if he's half as good as all the hype surrounding him the last few months than it's a great pickup by the Stars. I know he wanted to be assured a spot in a clubs top 6, so i assume he'll probably be playing on a line with Brad Richards (can't see the Riberio/Morrow tandem being broken up anytime soon).

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Re: NHL - The Darkest Canuck - 05-08-2008

Imagine if he would've landed in Pittsburgh :what ... YIKES!

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Re: NHL - grimes - 05-09-2008

Interesting piece by Stephen Brunt in today's Globe about Jim Balsillie. He was in the news again earlier this week on word he had made inquiries into purchasing the Sabres a few months back, though it never went anywhere. Anyway, here's the article:

Balsillie still in the game
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Like a bad penny, he just keeps turning up.

At least that's the way Gary Bettman must see it, though for most Canadians, billionaire businessman Jim Balsillie remains a bit of a hero, despite the best attempts by the NHL brass to paint him as some kind of reckless kook.

His real-world success would suggest rather strongly that he's not that, and his great side project – to bring NHL hockey to people who actually like it – seems a whole lot more cool and rational than the league's own expansion strategy over the past 40-odd years.

But trapped between the Toronto Maple Leafs' territorial veto, as enshrined in the NHL constitution, and the knowledge that said veto might well be illegal, opening the league up to a nasty anti-trust suit, Bettman has precious little choice but to try to counter each Balsillie move with a countermove as the Research in Motion co-founder attempts to buy a franchise and move it to Hamilton.

Bettman leaped into the breach in Pittsburgh to keep Balsillie from purchasing the Penguins, then executed what may well have been the greatest masterstroke of his commissionership, persuading Nashville Predators owner Craig Leipold to take a $40-million (U.S.) haircut on the sale of his team and then arranging a nice soft landing for him as the new proprietor of the Minnesota Wild.

Give Bettman full style points for that one. But Balsillie wasn't about to quit, and now larger forces are working in his favour.

That would be the American economy, arguably already in recession, and the fact that not a few NHL owners are finding it a bit of a tight squeeze right now because of the growing credit crisis.

The lockout may have helped create a system that's been a boon to some franchises (mostly the rich, high-revenue ones, which certainly wasn't the stated intent).

But for those teams carrying large debts, looking at empty seats and minuscule local broadcast revenue and having trouble spending up to a salary cap driven higher by the strong Canadian dollar, there's not a whole lot of light at the end of the tunnel.

When Balsillie started poking around looking for a team that he could buy and move into the Copps Coliseum, there were three or four obvious targets, including the Pens, who had fallen into bankruptcy and were struggling to secure a new arena deal, and the Preds, whose owner had already triggered the exit clause in his lease, having given up on making NHL hockey work in that market.

Because Balsillie was more than willing to overpay, it took every bit of Bettman's guile to keep those deals from closing. Both were killed before ever coming before the league's board of governors for approval.

But what if the number of teams now quietly on the block has multiplied to six or eight or 10?

What if there is a whole bunch of owners who need to cash out, right now? That's a whole lot of fires to put out all at once.

And if Balsillie does find another willing vendor, and manages to conclude a sale before Bettman can find a way to kill it, the barriers to his grand plan become a whole lot less certain.

In theory, the board could reject him as a potential owner, though the grounds for doing that in the league's bylaws are only two: lack of financial wherewithal and lack of “character.”

By any measure of NHL precedent, Balsillie would pass both tests with flying colours – and so if a sale was blocked by the board, the aggrieved seller might well be moved to sue his fellow owners for de facto breach of contract.

If Balsillie did get a team, there would seem to be no legal way for the league to block him moving it (see the Al Davis v. NFL decision), provided he was free of a lease and met the criteria for relocation, which have to do with whether the new market is suitable for NHL hockey.

(Remember how quickly Hamilton resident jumped at the chance to put down deposits for season tickets when it looked as if the Predators might be coming to town?)

Which brings matters back to the territorial veto and to the league's precarious legal position.

Obviously, Bettman is going to do everything in his power to prevent being stuck between a wealthy franchise determined to protect what it believes is its right and a wealthy potential owner more than happy to put up a fight.

In the commissioner's dreams, after the last round, after the failure and the character assassination,

Balsillie would have slunk back to Waterloo, Ont., and found another hobby.

If it wasn't clear then, it's clear now:

He's not that kind of guy.

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