Did NHL pay off Leipold with Wild?

kcudah posted 1/13/2008 from www.nypost.com [flag]

Craig Leipold's payoff from the league for rejecting a significantly better offer for the Predators from Jim Balsillie so he could sell the team for less money to more accommodating folks, came quickly when he was able to flip the Nashville sale into now pending ownership of the Wild. [link]

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