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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
My personal viewpoint on this is the fact that this entire thing is a complete farce. The fact that it has carried on this long and the process has burned through this many interested parties says what everyone has been saying all along: the team just won't work in Glendale.
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Oh, I doubt anybody on any side of this will disagree.
The farce, ultimately, lays at Glendale's feet. The NHL is mostly protected, and legally it would be impossible to argue that the league has not made a good faith effort to keep the team in Glendale (if the possibilities of lawsuits flying come into play as was first speculated when Balsillie made his play). The league keeps finding people willing to drop money, and Glendale keeps screwing it up somehow. That city is going to be left holding the bag, out $50 million and stuck with an empty arena. The franchise will move on, and Phoenix's NHL misadventure will be quickly forgotten.
It's an amusing story though. Hell, if you can make a movie about
Moneyball, the script for the Coyotes saga should be amazing!
