Just what might Mr C be up to now.?????

[Buddlite]

perhaps this might be some of what has been taking alot of mr C's time lately. ;)

Seems a "Group" that includes some former NHL players such as Jarome Iginia,Mark recchi, Shane Doan and Darryl Sydor and a developer named Tom Gaglardi and perhaps some others, whom might that be??, is meeting with the Mayor of Hamilton Ontario, hometown of who??, regarding a possible purchase of the Atlanta Thrashers and moving them to Hamilton, Ontario. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm .perhaps Mr C might be able to shed some light on this developing story......

[DCNascarFan]

I thought they were looking into the team from Arizona that just went BK? Either way, I had been wondering the same thing....

[Shirley]

Owner: Thrashers Not Moving From Atlanta
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 6:30 p.m. ET
ATLANTA (AP) -- One of the Thrashers' (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/hockey/nationalhockeyleague/atlantathrashers/index.html?inline=nyt-org) owners says the team has ''several inquiries'' from possible investors but adds the talks do not include moving the team from Atlanta.
Washington businessman Bruce Levenson said Monday ''there is no truth to the rumor'' the ownership group has been involved in talks about moving the team, including with a Vancouver group reportedly interested in relocating the team to Hamilton.
The Hamilton Spectator reported on Saturday Vancouver developer Tom Gaglardi heads a group interested in moving the Thrashers to Hamilton. There also are efforts to move the Phoenix Coyotes (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/hockey/nationalhockeyleague/phoenixcoyotes/index.html?inline=nyt-org) to Hamilton.

[Shirley]

May 10, 2009
Slap Shot
Gretzky May Gain if Coyotes Go Bankrupt

By JEFF Z. KLEIN and STU HACKEL
The messy bankruptcy filing by the Phoenix Coyotes (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/hockey/nationalhockeyleague/phoenixcoyotes/index.html?inline=nyt-org)’ owner, Jerry Moyes, meant to facilitate the club’s sale to James L. Balsillie and a move to Hamilton, Ontario, has an intriguing sidelight. Wayne Gretzky (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/wayne_gretzky/index.html?inline=nyt-per), the N.H.L.’s career-leading scorer and managing partner and head coach of the Coyotes, stands to profit if the bankruptcy proceeds.
The National Hockey League is challenging the bankruptcy claim in court; it wants to keep the team in Arizona. But should that challenge fail, The Associated Press reported, Gretzky would receive $8 million in deferred compensation for his duties with the club. He also has a clause in his agreement with the club stating that he is entitled to an additional $14.5 million payment if he resigns because of a change in ownership.
Gretzky has not commented on the bankruptcy filing.
He was the face of the game for most of his 20-year career. He has been the Coyotes’ managing partner for nine years and their coach for the past four. They have won 143 of 328 games and have never made the playoffs with Gretzky as coach.
Balsillie, a co-chief executive of the BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, reportedly would like Gretzky to stay if he is successful in moving the team to Hamilton. According to The Hamilton Spectator, Balsillie would like to rename Hamilton’s Copps Coliseum after Gretzky’s father, Walter, a beloved figure in Canada. The Gretzkys are from Brantford, a city outside Hamilton.
Walter Gretzky rejected that idea, telling the newspaper that the building should continue to honor the former Hamilton mayor and sportscaster Vic Copps.
On news that his oldest son might profit from the bankruptcy, Walter Gretzky said: “And just think I started at Bell Canada at $28 a week, before taxes. When I hear you say figures like that, with my son, with my family, it’s mind-boggling.”
Russian League Issues
Alexander Medvedev, the Russian K.H.L. president and Gazprom (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/gazprom/index.html?inline=nyt-org) export chief executive, had much to say last week on N.H.L. matters. But he also spoke about problems in his own league. Medvedev said that the K.H.L. was shelving its plans, announced last season, to expand into Scandinavia and Central Europe.
He also said that plans to add more teams within Russia to the K.H.L.’s current lineup of 24 clubs were also being put aside for 2009-10, and that the league might even contract.
“We will decide in June how many teams will play next year,” he said. Some K.H.L. clubs had trouble making payroll last season. “We don’t want teams that have substantial debts, so we will look at the finances of all the teams,” he said.
Medvedev, who has been at odds with the N.H.L. over international player transfers and N.H.L. participation in the Sochi Olympics, said he was looking to buy into one of three unspecified N.H.L. teams that have what he called “financial difficulties.” He also said the N.H.L. told his associates that he would not be allowed to do so because of league regulations prohibiting foreign ownership.
Bill Daly, the N.H.L. deputy commissioner, said that no such rule exists and that league officials had not spoken to Medvedev.

[Mr BigBlock]

Well i am from Hamilton also Stoney Creek is a sub. As far as hockey in Hamilton its not going to happen as long as Bettman is Comish He totally hates Hamilton and Canada for that fact. But he has alll the brains putting hockey teams in the hockey hotbeds of Phoenix, Atlanta, 2 teams in Florida, Nashville if he had his way thier would be no teams in Canada.

[Hydroman]

Also, there is still the larger problems of talking the Toronto team to allow another team in their "protected " area, plus getting enough of the leagues " old boys club" to agree to let into the NHL, a franchise that moved to Canada, unfortunately, Basillie has no friends to help on these issues, he burned a lot of bridges the last time around with the Pittsburg fiasco.

A new rink further out from "the big smoke" (Toronto) has also been discussed in the past, somewhere down the 401 close to the Kitchener Waterloo area .

While I strongly agree that southwestern Ont. is a prime location for another NHL team, my guess is it will not happen.

Rather than watch the over priced NHL, we have a great Ontario Junior league that stretches from Ottawa to a couple of teams in upper Michigan that provides a great brand of exciting hockey at a cost that gives working families a chance to attend.

Hydroman:cry:

[Nascarcamping]

http://www.bringthenhltohamilton.com


:)

[Shirley]

Alright, Mr C. has made yall a place to talk Canada Hockey.


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[madfinnhockey]

If the team needs a good skate sharpener, take me with them lol.