Comments on: NHL to announce Greg Jamison has a deal to buy the Coyotes http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/ ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.com Sun, 26 May 2013 03:18:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: atwatercrushesokoye http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/comment-page-1/#comment-70397 Mon, 07 May 2012 21:56:11 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=427388#comment-70397 The NHL and NBC consumated a 10 year broadcast agreement last spring, they have 9 years to go, whether Phoenix is in the league or not will have absolutely no bearing on this contract…since it’s been signed.

Also I would ask two things: First, how many Phoenix games has NBC broadcast nationally this year? And how many people in the Phoenix area actually watched those games? My guess is not many to both.

]]> By: imleftcoast http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/comment-page-1/#comment-70394 Mon, 07 May 2012 21:46:34 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=427388#comment-70394 Wrong, the idea is to steal as much from Glendale as possible.

]]> By: darksidecowboy http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/comment-page-1/#comment-70277 Mon, 07 May 2012 19:27:47 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=427388#comment-70277 It’s all about the NBC tv dollars people. If they move to Quebec sure they sell out the arena, but what about the tv revenue. Phoenix is a highly populated city and if they get the right owner, and put out a successful team then the tv revenue will follow.

]]> By: pavelfitzgerald http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/comment-page-1/#comment-70251 Mon, 07 May 2012 18:45:05 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=427388#comment-70251 What a joke. Couldn’t agree more with the poster who pointed out how Bettman has bent over backwards to keep this team in this failing market but did nothing for Winnipeg, Quebec, Hartford & Atlanta. Only in Phoenix would the city PAY the new owner to “run the arena” which is very close to the price he will “pay” for the team. I give this 2 years before Jamison decides he’s had enough. Here we go again .. ..

]]> By: imleftcoast http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/comment-page-1/#comment-70226 Mon, 07 May 2012 18:03:38 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=427388#comment-70226 Bettman is running a Ponzi scheme. He is overplaying the possibility of expansion team fees. It shouldn’t work in negotiations: why would anyone believe there would be expansion teams when 4 or 5 current teams are on life support? Given this is the third or fourth try at pulling this in Phoenix and the holes in the story that Joe points out (rather huge ones), I don’t think this ‘sale’ is anything more than a ‘pump and dump’ email from a marketing firm working with the League.

]]> By: AlohaMrHand http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/comment-page-1/#comment-70224 Mon, 07 May 2012 17:56:01 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=427388#comment-70224 What a joke this has been.Good for Glendale for keeping them( unless there’s some under the table secret closed door meeting we aren’t aware of) but this has been handled so poorly.

]]> By: atwatercrushesokoye http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/comment-page-1/#comment-70196 Mon, 07 May 2012 16:27:23 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=427388#comment-70196 This is ridiculous, it’s just another part of the huge shell game that Bettman is trying to play. If this “sale” is anything like the previous deals it will involve very little money changing hands (at least between the NHL and new “owners”) and will rely heavily on the people of Glendale paying for the money this team will lose in the future. One has to wonder if the Goldwater Institute will sit idly by, or if the people (or city council) of Glendale will finally stand up and tell Bettman NO?

One really has to wonder why Bettman put up no fight when it came to teams in Winnipeg, Quebec City, Hartford and Atlanta moving yet he’ll move heaven and earth before he ever let’s the Coyotes (a team that loses $20-25 million EVERY YEAR) move to another city? Might have to do with the fact that he guaranteed the NHL governors that they would not lose any money on the Coyotes, but he knows there’s no way that’s true and if he does let the Coyotes go through a real sale and move he’ll have to answer to his bosses.

]]> By: quizguy66 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/comment-page-1/#comment-70187 Mon, 07 May 2012 15:56:31 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=427388#comment-70187 I hope for the sake of their fans that they get some clarity to their situation – especially if they win it all. I remember when the Devils won their first Cup in ’95 the celebration felt like an Irish Wake because there was all of the uncertainty over Nashville.

-QG

]]> By: sjsharksfan11 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/comment-page-1/#comment-70161 Mon, 07 May 2012 14:56:34 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=427388#comment-70161 Good for the Yotes organization. Happy to see a team stay on the West Coast and not go to Canada. Let them have an expansion team if anything.

]]> By: bcs1283 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/comment-page-1/#comment-70116 Mon, 07 May 2012 13:11:34 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=427388#comment-70116 So Quebec is going to have to settle for the Blue Jackets. Sorry for your luck.

]]> By: ballistictrajectory http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/report-nhl-to-announce-greg-jamison-has-a-deal-to-buy-the-coyotes/comment-page-1/#comment-70114 Mon, 07 May 2012 13:04:16 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=427388#comment-70114 Until somebody looks out the window, sees a cactus, and calls the whole thing off.

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