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Originally Posted by Vulcan
What are you talking about. Balsillie was approved by the NHL in 2006 when he bid on the Penguins and the court considered this still in effect. The later vote by the NHL had no legal standing. Bettman had the opportunity and was even encouraged by the judge, to negotiate with Balsillie at that time. He didn't take it and now we have this continuing soap opera and money pit.
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Absent some changes... like the league pulling the rug out from beneath him a couple years later with regard to the Predators? Or like how he tried to utterly destroy all major sports' control over where their franchises were placed when he brought forth the Coyotes bankruptcy scam?
Don't get me wrong... I would have loved to have seen Balsillie own a team in Hamilton. It would have been one amazingly entertaining gong show. But stop fooling yourself. By the time they went to court, the league wanted nothing to do with him. 2006 was a very long time in the past, even when this saga began.