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Balsillie spurned in bid for Predators
Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie attempted to buy an interest in the Nashville Predators from troubled financier William "Boots" Del Biaggio two weeks ago but the National Hockey League cautioned against the plan, sources say. Mr. Del Biaggio, a California-based financier who is facing fraud allegations and is reportedly under investigation by the U. S. Department of Justice, tried to sell ...
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It Could Get Messy In Nashville
KK Hockey — ... Nashville Predators, and the National Hockey League. listen now and you will get a little Wings talk too… added 7:03an, from Theresa Tedesco of the National Post, Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie attempted to buy an interest in the Nashville Predators from troubled financier William “Boots” Del Biaggio two weeks ago but the National Hockey League cautioned against the plan, sources say. continued

Report: NHL thwarts Canadian billionaire's new attempt to own Predators
Puck Daddy — ... Turns out they already have. Two weeks ago. Theresa Tedesco, chief business correspondent for the National Post and increasingly one of the most important hockey writers of the off-season, reports that Balsillie attempted to buy an interest in the Predators from Boots; but that the NHL warned against it: ...

Kick Off Your Boots
Kuklas Korner — ... Anyway, despite the seemingly-endless controversy of this mess, my own hope is that we shall never have to read, type, hear or think about “Boots” ever again. And David Freeman, chairman of the Predators’ ownership group, obviously ...

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