If Not Winnipeg, Then Where?

from Jim Kelley of Sportsnet, So if the Ice Edge group bidding for control of the Phoenix Coyotes can?t get a deal done with the city of Glendale, are we supposed to believe that the Coyotes next stop is Winnipeg? Memo to NHL fans in the small, but very fine city that the NHL did its best to forget: follow the money. I?d like to believe that Winnipeg is first up on the short list of re-relocation cities and that the NHL is leaning that way when it carefully touts the advantages (without making any iron clad promises) of going back to a hockey town in a Canadian city where the game was relatively successful. The problem is the NHL hasn?t truly declared unbridled love for the ?Peg? and one can?t help but think that all the carefully worded statements from the Commissioner on down, don?t amount to anything unless there?s a signed commitment from the league. continued

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