Boots puts Bettman in awkward position

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Imagine How They Feel
Published 7/16/2008 by Paul at KK Hockey
... they may have just dodged an extremely expensive bullet. The local investors wondering where they can possibly find the money to operate without losing their shirts in a league in which — thanks to rising revenues elsewhere, especially in Canada, but certainly not in Nashville — spending even to the salary floor becomes ever harder to justify. Everyone else, wildly cynical about the whole enterprise, and amazed that a “major league” sport could ever do business like this. more

Blockbuster?
Published 7/16/2008 by Mike Boone at Habs Inside/Out
Hot trade rumour: Martin Gerber and defenceman Andrej Meszaros to the Los Angeles Kings. Kings send Anze Kopitar to Chicago, which deals Nikolai Khabibulin and either  Brent Seabrook or Cam Barker to Ottawa. A steal for the Senators, if it happens. But that's what I thought when they got Mike Commodore and Cory Stillman. •  •  • • In the Globe, Tim Wharnsby writes Terry Murray will coach the Kings. And Stephen Brunt columnizes on Gary Bettman's Del Biaggio problem. • A bank in Michigan is suing Sergei Fedorov ...

Bill Daly kind of sort of explains the lockout
Published 7/16/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
... " show. While it's very long, it's also worth a listen as the Calgary Herald's Bruce Dowbiggin (the author of Money Players , a book that lays the foundation for the lockout), the Vancouver Province's Tony Gallagher, and the Globe and Mail's Stephen Brunt all weighed in on and the Nashville Predators' current situation (Brunt addressed the "Boots" Del Biaggio mess this morning--he tried to lure investors into ...

Does the Bell Toll For Gary Bettman Now?
Published 7/17/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (The Forechecker) at On the Forecheck
... office wasn't "involved in structuring it or developing it" with respect to the operating agreement and the put right. If this is the truth, however, this could represent a situation that might finally bring about the fall of Gary Bettman, which some (especially hockey fans in Canada) have been awaiting for years. In yesterday's Globe and Mail, Stephen Brunt cut the commissioner some slack, writing that Del Biaggio had put Bettman in an "awkward position" after having backed him as a savior for Nashville while turning Jim Balsillie aside. He wrote, After surely undertaking ...