Hoo boy. It turns out that the Phoenix Coyotes weren't taken over by the NHL at the end of the season, as most mainstream media reports.
They were actually taken over in mid-February, says the city manager of Glendale, AZ (where the Coyotes play). (National Post)
The NHL trade deadline was March 4th and the Coyotes were particularly active as "sellers", shipping off high-priced centre Ollie Jokinen and top-four D Derek Morris. But the team also added players: Petr Prucha, Dmitri Kalinen and Jordon Leopold, among others.
If the NHL took over the team before the Coyotes deadline fire sale/picking up other teams' bonus babies and salary cap casualties, then who knew? And what does that mean for Coyotes' fans? Both of them?
All in all, Garry Bettman's southern strategy is looking stupider and stupider all the time.
Hat tip to Puck Daddy
4.30.2009
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Send 'em back where they came from...Winnipeg! BTW, Bettman's southern strategy has always been stupid. Predicated on teaching Americans to like a sport they neither play nor appreciate outside of the northern plain states and the north east. I propose the pond-hockey test for future franchise locations...if you can't play outside in January...you don't get a team.
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