NHL OR NBA, let the message board decide!!

[KCMax]

Sprint Center doing fine without NHL or NBA franchise

[mgsports]

American Royal coming.

[KCFutbol]

Hard Times in the Paris of the Plains

Chris Sullentrop, a NY Times writer, is from Johnson County.

What a dick.

[KCMax]

Mayor Sly James doesn't want an expansion team. 

http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2011/07/sly ... ansion.php

[AllThingsKC]

...I think it's unfair to say KC struggles without a team.  Even without a team, the SC seems to be doing just fine.

Sprint Center doing fine without NHL or NBA franchise

You could have saved yourself a lot of time if you had just read my post and accepted it as absolute fact without questioning it.

Mayor Sly James doesn't want an expansion team.  ](*,)

http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2011/07/sly ... ansion.php

Uh....so if we don't get the Los Angeles Lakers to move here, there's no point in trying to land an NBA franchise because no other team can complete with the Los Angeles Lakers?  That seems to be what he is saying.

[KCMax]

You could have saved yourself a lot of time if you had just read my post and accepted it as absolute fact without questioning it.

LOL. I still think its CYA BS.

That's a lot of acronyms.

[AllThingsKC]

I hate it when you spell in front of me.

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I hate it when you spell in front of me.

Winner! 

[mgsports]

KC here they come.

[KCMax]

Nassau County rejects arena proposal for the NHL Islanders.

Failed referendum may move Islanders

The likelihood of the New York Islanders relocating to another city increased Monday when voters in Long Island rejected a referendum to borrow $400 million to fund a new arena for the NHL team.

With about 71 percent of the vote counted, unofficial returns from the Nassau County Board of Elections showed no votes outstripped yes votes by 57-to-42 percent on a proposal to use public funds to build a new hockey arena and minor-league baseball park.

Supporters of the referendum called it a last-ditch effort to keep the Islanders playing in the Nassau Coliseum. The team?s lease expires in 2015 and the team?s owner, Charles Wang, has hinted he may have to move the team from Long Island unless a new facility is built to replace the 39-year-old building.

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[KCMax]

After Voters Reject Arena Bonds, Will the NY Islanders Relocate?

There are options for relocation, albeit distant. Kansas City has had an arena in the Sprint Center waiting for a cornerstone tenant and the Islanders have played an exhibition game there prior, albeit sparsely attended. There is currently an NHL to Portland effort that would seek to have a team in the Rose Garden, and Seattle, still stinging after the loss of the NBA Supersonics have made noise about wanting a team. Jim Balsillie sought to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes and relocate them to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, but the Maple Leafs were always fighting behind the scenes to prevent that from happening given Hamilton?s proximity to Toronto.

SI: Islanders are going nowhere

The Islanders are a classic ?handyman?s special,? and if Wang plays his cards right, someone will come along and buy them, maybe even give him something closer to the $187.5 million that he and Kumar paid for the team than the $151 million that Forbes says is the club?s value. The new owner can become the hero of Long Island, finance a new arena on his own, spend money to finish the job of building a winner, pack his new building and make everyone happy.

Think no one is out there who can do that? Think ? and I can?t believe I?m typing this name ? Jim Balsillie.

Abandon Ship

First, it was the Town of Hempstead telling Mr. Wang that his Lighthouse Project was not going to be approved; and now the citizens of Nassau County have told Wang that they can't help support at new home for his hockey team. That's two clear strikes against the once proud franchise.

Will there be a third pitch to swing at? Only time will tell. But, unless Mr. Wang is prepared to spend some -- no, rather a lot -- of his own money, I doubt there will be hockey at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum beyond 2015.

And with the negative vote, stories will start to surface on the potential new home for the Islanders:

-- Will it be in Brooklyn, where the new Barclays Center is a year from being finished, but is not designed for hockey?

-- Will it be Kansas City where Anschutz Entertainment Group runs the Sprint Center and is looking for at least one, maybe even two, major sports tenants?

-- Will it be Quebec City, where a new $400-million arena plan appears to have hit the skids, but could be resuscitated by 2015 when the Islanders' lease expires?

-- Could Seattle become the home of a team for the first time since around the time of the infamous influenza epidemic of 1919?

-- Is this the perfect opportunity to bring an established team to be Toronto's 2nd franchise?

Forbes: Would the Islanders Really Leave?

But is it necessarily a case of build it or they will leave?  Despite owner Charles Wang?s insistence that his outdated Nassau Coliseum isn?t a viable option going forward, what else does he do?  Everyone talks about the Kansas City Sprint Center, which is dying for a full time sports tenant, but sports business experts doubt that the Islanders could duplicate their $15 million in annual cable money in that market, despite their second class standing in New York.  Canada could be a possibility ? fans of the old Quebec Nordiques have been rallying for an NHL return- but any arena plan there is still a long way off...

Of course, the Barclays Center, future home of the New Jersey Nets, is rising just 22 miles to the west in Brooklyn. The building?s design is basketball-only, but that can always change. Mikhail Prokhorov would welcome an NHL tenant, wouldn?t he?

I would guess Brooklyn makes the most sense - I can't imagine the NHL would want the franchise to leave the cushy NY market, and the new arena in Brooklyn can cut them a sweet deal. But if they do move out of NYC altogether, I have to think KC is in a good spot?

[KCMax]

Islanders' hope for new arena in Long Island still alive

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy says he welcomes the idea of the hockey team moving to the eastern end of the island that he represents, as long as it's good for the team and for the community.

He said on Saturday he called team owner Charles Wang last week to talk about the idea. Messages to an Islanders spokesman were not immediately returned.

[mgsports]

With Hurricane Irene out their but hopefully no Damage to an NHL Stadium maybe chance if an NHL team needs a home the Panthers/Lighting or Hurricanes can come here.

[Ez Street]

With Hurricane Irene out their maybe chance if an NHL team needs a home the Panthers/Lighting or Hurricanes can come here.

Really dude? Come on.

[KansasCityCraka]

I am not that desperate for a team.

[KCMax]

Columbus panel unveils plan to keep Blue Jackets

Casino tax revenue would be used to help buy the Blue Jackets' home arena from Nationwide Realty Investors and Nationwide would become part-owner of the financially troubled team under a proposal announced Wednesday to help the city keep its NHL club and preserve economic activity in the area near the arena....

The team has made the playoffs only once in its 11 years and had seen attendance decline, and a report commissioned two years ago by the Columbus Chamber warned that the city might have a hard time retaining the Blue Jackets because they were losing $12 million a year.

Aubut: NHL in Quebec City soon

Marcel Aubut, who sold the Quebec Nordiques 16 years ago, says he thinks NHL hockey will return to the provincial capital within two years.

Six U.S. NHL franchises are in trouble and ripe for relocation, Aubut told QMI Agency.

Aubut sold the money-losing Nordiques to American interests in 1995 and the team moved to Colorado that same year to become the Avalanche.

Aubut says he wants to make things right with Quebec's jilted hockey fans....

Aubut says his hometown could have had a team sooner had a new arena been ready by this year, but the $400-million facility won't be completed until 2015.

That means an NHL team that relocates in 2013 would have to play its first two seasons in the Pepsi Colisee, a 61-year-old facility that's not up to NHL standards.

NHL's Dallas Stars File for Chapter 11

The National Hockey League's Dallas Stars filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday evening, with a proposal to put the franchise on the auction block and an initial offer in hand from Canadian hospitality executive Tom Gaglardi....

Others will be free to challenge Mr. Gaglardi's offer at a court-supervised auction, but, in a statement released Thursday, the Stars said no bid that moves the team from the American Airlines Center in Dallas will be considered.

While a judge will have final approval, court papers stated the NHL must also sign off on a buyer for the Stars.

[mgsports]

Capitals are playing a preseason Game in Baltimore.
The thing will be built in New York but might not involve the Islanders.
In 3 years we could have an NHL Team that's what Jack Harry says and the Game on Tuesday is almost sold out.

[AllThingsKC]

The Oct. 15 game between the Houston Rockets and the Miami Heat at the Sprint Center has been canceled.

http://www.sprintcenter.com/news/detail ... r_canceled

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