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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
This is bad news, I don’t know if there are many billionaires around the Ottawa area who would be willing to put down money to keep the NHL in the Ottawa area. This painfully reminds me more of when the Nordiques left to Colorado, a bad team for many years that is finally starting to become a good team, in a small market, with a weak Canadian dollar. There are a number of markets in the states that would like a NHL club (Kansas City for instance) and governments who are more willing to offer lucrative subsidies.
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I disagree. Doesn't have to be a billionaire from Ottawa although there are some seriously wealthy folks there from tech.
It's probably going to be a more modern cap table similar to the Warriors. I can see a group of wealthy Canadians that may not all be in Canada or private equity. Or a combo. And I can think of one fellow off the top of my head based here that could write the cheque himself or would happily be part of a consortium.
Separately but a bit related, back when the sens were a basket case in the 90's, I was involved in a potential sale to a fund that was going to use the dire financials as an accelerated tax write-off. There was lots of interest.
Add in the fact Bettman hates moving teams.
Snowballs chance the Sens move.