Nashville Predators moving to Canada? NOPE! Sorry, Canucks (and KC!)...

For another 3,500 seats I doubt it would cost another $100 million. The thing is they could have just left room for expansion within the building, I don't believe they did that. At the time, if I remember correctly, it was debated on whether they should or should not, and they went the second route. Ensuring the league will not come back there until there is an NHL-size rink -- bare minimum 17,500.

 

I looked at the numbers -- realistically, probably close to$60 million - $75 million. The Coyotes' arena opened less than a year before than the Winnipeg arena. The Coyotes have about 2,800 more seats. It's a very nice building but hardly opulent. The Coyotes' arena cost $180 million US. The one in Winnipeg was $133 CDN, at a time when there was a fairly significant difference in the currency values. That's a pretty big difference to shell out solely in the hopes you'll someday get an NHL team again.

 

He tried to steal the Penguins from Pittsburgh. He tried to steal the Sabres from Buffalo. He started printing tickets for the Hamilton Predators before he even had an agreement in principle to buy the team.

He's an arrogant, ignorant foof with no common sense whatsoever and that's why the NHL wants nothing to do with him.

 

How does Boots filing affect Craig Leipold and Phil Falcone, if at all?

 

If he would only take one step at a time rather than taking five, he might have had a franchise by now. To borrow a phrase used here before about the man, he's a pit bull in a china shop. A little patience (and adherence to the NHL process) probably would have gone a long ways.

 

Not at all. Leipold sold the Preds to another group last summer and subsequently bought the Minnesota Wild. Falcone is a minority investor in the Wild.

 

Thanks. I didn't follow the Nashville sale that close.

Falcone will increase his share of the Wild at some point.

 

Nah. He's extensively leveraged from buying the Penthouse mansion.

 

That's absolutely fair enough, but now to build a brand new NHL ready building they are looking ball park of $400-mil, due to rising costs of everything. That is roughly what the Oilers are looking at for the building alone, not counting the entire downtown project which tops out at around $1 billion.
I personally think they would have been better served to leave it so that the building could be expanded to meet NHL standards. it would cost a bit more than their current set up, but it wouldn't close the book on an NHL franchise for say 30 years.

 

Leipold is listed as one of Boots' creditors.

 

Which queen - Victoria? ;D

wokka-wokka-wokka.....

 

Apropos of nothing .... every time he's referred to by his nickname, I think, "Hey, didn't that guy get banned?"

;D