from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,
Maybe there is a binding agreement in place that will keep the Coyotes in place for another year or three in Glendale, Ariz., and maybe there isn’t. Courts of law will decide the issue. As customary in Gary Bettman’s regime, league and ad hoc attorneys will be in for a windfall. Attorneys, by the way, whose fees aren’t capped and who pay no escrow.
But there is no reason other than the NHL’s institutional ego to maintain the franchise in Glendale that has been a money pit and source of unending drama essentially from its inception after yanking the Original Jets out of Winnipeg in 1996.
It’s been a two-decade soap opera replete with one inadequately financed owner after another, seasons apart in which the team was a ward of the state — was it 1999-2000 or 2000-01, I’m not sure now, during which the Rangers were prevented from trading for Nikolai Khabibulin and Keith Tkachuk because the Coyotes’ assets were frozen by Sixth Avenue? — and a series of unending court battles during which almost everyone connected with the franchise has been bled dry.
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