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BCE s new owners may have had a tough time finishing the financing details of their takeover of the phone giant, but lenders are still willing to put in a few bucks for properties they do like. Daryl Katz certainly found that out in July when financing giant CIT Group Inc. gave the drug store chain owner a $100-million loan to complete his $200-million purchase of the Edmonton Oilers. Of ... [link]

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Puck Headlines: Vancouver offers Mats Sundin Swede incentive
Published 7/18/2008 by Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy
... owner Daryl Katz and some other NHL owners. Katz is worth $2.37 billion? That's like, what, 100,000 Dustin Penners? [Canadian Business Online] ...

Evening Line
Published 7/18/2008 by Paul at KK Hockey
... newest owner, he would be wise to remember the immortal words of Groucho Marx who said, “I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.” The NHL is filled with scoundrels, cheats and liars, all led by a pint-sized czar, a former lawyer no less. Some NHL owners seem to live by another of Marx’s rules: The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. -Andy Holloway of Canadian Business

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