"Portland Panthers"? Read on...

From the Truro Daily News:

The owners of the perennially money-losing Florida Panthers eventually found owners in Portland, Ore., where the city was willing to offer a sweetheart lease agreement in a new arena.)
The above scenario is a fantasy, to be sure. Yet, it is the type of development that could occur if individual franchise owners were given the freedom to move as they see fit - without the approval of their leagues - according to Gabriel Feldman, director of the sports law program at Tulane University.

W4E say: Whatever. Get used to it, if you already hadn't.

over 2 years ago Donny Rivette 2 comments 0 recs |

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I call BS

1. The team may (on paper) lose money, but SSE is no money pit (unlike the Phoenix Coyotes).
2. SSE sells the team, SSE doesn’t run the BAC anymore. No more concert money. They lose a lot more than the team if they sell it.
3. Re-read numbers 1 and 2 if this Oz thing gets built and takes off. If it loses a lot of money, then maybe they sell the team to recoup the losses.

Still, I don’t think this franchise is in the position that Nashville or Phoenix is, or that Buffalo and Pittsburgh were. People like to pick on us because they don’t thing we “deserve” a team and because they think the team loses loads of money because ticket sales aren’t good. But don’t forget one of Balsillie’s first targets was the Penguins. He just wants his vanity team and will go for any target that looks weak.

Whatever. Slow news day in Canada.

by John Beatty on May 23, 2009 1:35 PM EDT reply actions

NAILED IT.

Sweet, John.

I’m all aboard on the Florida Franchise being much better off financially than so many members of the Canadian media circus claim it to be.

Ah, but stereotypes die hard.

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