Posted Oct 11, 2009, 4:59 PM
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Sunday’s News of Hockey, 10/11/09: Phoenix in Trouble, Quebec on the Rise
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The sellout crowd at Jobing.com Arena for Phoenix’s home opener — where ticket prices were reduced to just $25 or $15 to draw fans — is kept quiet in Saturday night’s 2-0 loss to Columbus. Among the spectators watching the financially troubled Coyotes: Daryl Jones, chief operating officer of Ice Edge Holdings, a group that dropped its bid for the team at the bankruptcy court-imposed deadline last summer. Jones says that Ice Edge is still interested in buying the club. Under its initial $150 million bid, it would have kept the team in Glendale, Ariz., while moving some games to Saskatoon.
Meanwhile, Quebec City mayor Régis Labeaume confirms that he and former Nordiques owner Marcel Aubut met with N.H.L. commissioner Gary Bettman about the possibility of re-establishing a team in la capitale. Deputy commissioner Bill Daly later says the chances of placing teams in Quebec and Winnipeg have “real potential.” The news comes amid reports of an impending announcement that a new, N.H.L.-standard rink will be built to replace Le Colisée, the Nordiques’ home from their founding in the W.H.A. in 1972 until they left for Denver in 1995, where the next season they won the Stanley Cup as the Colorado Avalanche.
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"We do have an interest in returning teams to Canadian cities that have hosted and supported NHL teams historically," deputy commissioner Bill Daly told the Toronto Star in an email.
"Both Winnipeg and Quebec City have done that, so we'll see how things transpire. That doesn't mean southern Ontario won't or can't be considered. It will be."
Daly made his comments after Regis Lebaume, mayor of Quebec City, told reporters that he and former Quebec Nordiques owner Marcel Aubut met Friday with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.
Lebaume said more news would come this week, most likely a promise of funding from the city for a $250 million, 18,000-seat, NHL-sized arena that could be part of a bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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