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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Basically - yes. Probably have to buy them back for like $300-350M.
And then auction the team off in a few years for $600-650M (without having to divide the pie up further like regular expansion). Houston or KC or Quebec in the interim.
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If the team can be sold for $600m on the open market, you can bet Meruelo is going to demand every penny of that. And if the league doesn't give him the money voluntarily, the lawsuits will drag on for years.
On top of which, no owner in the NHL wants a precedent that his franchise can be taken away from him simply because the league doesn't like his business plan.