from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
Quebec City’s NHL expansion hopes received another major boost Tuesday when the league confirmed in an entertainingly worded press release that it was one of only two bids for an expansion team submitted before the formal deadline.
You remember how that played out, right? Back in June – coming out of the semi-annual board of governors meeting – the league established a firm plan and schedule for the bidding process.
The goal was to eliminate the tire-kickers – all the expansion wannabes that had expressed some vague interest in landing an NHL team.
By setting a narrow window for formal applications, the NHL was able to weed out candidates who’d made a lot of noise over the past decade, but didn’t have a viable plan in place.
In all, 16 different groups requested expansion applications from the NHL. In the end, only two submitted bids. One was from William Foley, an entrepreneur who’d previously conducted a season-ticket campaign for Las Vegas with the league’s blessing.
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