Neither side can agree on whether or not Richard Rodier can be in attendance for the depositions of Gary Bettman and Bill Daly. The other issue they can't agree on is the amount of documents the NHL can get from Balsillie and Moyes.
Rodier ((pictured, thanks Nathan Dennette/CP)) does, however, get to hang out while Bettman and Daly are questioned, but whether or not he can hang while Balsillie is grilled will be left up to the judge.
((HT: GlobeSports/Shoalts))
Daryl Jones did not offer any update on negotiations with the City of Glendale on a new arena lease, which is a condition of their bid. Ice Edge says it will offer $150-million (all currency U.S.) for the team.
More than 60 documents, some as long as 100 pages, were filed with the court over the last three days. There were charges and counter-charges over whether Moyes and Balsillie conspired to drive away other bidders for the Coyotes and whether Moyes, Balsillie or both tried to funnel confidential information to a conservative watchdog group that may sue Glendale if it thinks too much public money was paid to subsidize the Coyotes through a new arena lease.
Moyes and Balsillie, who has offered $212.5-million, maintain the NHL’s actions are all driven by its opposition to Balsillie’s plans to move the team to Hamilton. One of their filings pointed out that Judge Baum himself wondered about this when he mused at a hearing that “the court has the firm sense that if the only issue here was [Balsillie] purchasing the Phoenix Coyotes [without relocation] there would be no objection from the NHL.”
The filing also questioned the NHL governors’s rejection of Balsillie’s ownership application on grounds of character. A long list of current and former NHL owners who had their own troubles was presented.
The NHL accused Moyes of being a puppet of Balsillie and Rodier, going along with their strategy to use the bankruptcy laws to force a move in order to get the most money he could from the sale.
Moyes...??? A puppet...???
Not really... trying to recoup his losses by any means necessary is more like it...
Carrie Watters and Rebekah Sanders of the Arizona Republic try to present the relationship, if any, between the Goldwater Institute and Balsillie's group...
"I've never heard of Richard Rodier before, and neither has anyone else at the Goldwater Institute that I'm aware of," Goldwater attorney Carrie Ann Sitren said.
Rodier said, "I have never had any contact whatsoever with anyone from the Goldwater Institute. All I know is what I read in the paper."
They also present the idea that Balsillie's bid is scaring away other possible bidders from entering the fray.
OSG HQ would recommend that a $212.5-million bid is just serious, where the Reinsdorf bid isn't and the Ice Edge bid has too many holes as they reach judge Baum's deadlines...
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