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  • True North Sports and Entertainment Limited chairman Mark Chipman (right) looks on as NHL commissioner Gary Bettman speaks at a press conference in Winnipeg, Tuesday May 31, 2011, announcing an NHL franchise returning to the city of Winnipeg. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Lipnowski

    NHL commissioner indicates Winnipeg must sellout MTS Centre for success

    05/31/2011 4:45 PM 0

    The NHL is returning to Winnipeg with a hefty price tag attached to the franchise.

    There was no glossing over the ...

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  • Winnipeg Jets captain Dale Hawerchuk tries to score on Edmonton Oilers goalie Bill Ranford during NHL playoff action in Edmonton, April 4, 1990. Jet diehards kept the spirit of the team alive on websites and chatrooms, lobbying for a team and keeping track of Jets alumni like Bobby Hull, Thomas Steen and Hawerchuk.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ray Giguere

    Winnipeg Jets long defied death, kept flicker of hope alive for NHL return

    05/31/2011 12:46 PM 0

    The Winnipeg Jets made a habit of defying death.

    How else to explain a tear-filled rally known as "The Funeral" that ...

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  • Future of AHL's Manitoba Moose uncertain following NHL's return to Winnipeg

    05/31/2011 5:41 PM 0

    WINNIPEG - It was a bittersweet day for the Manitoba Moose's Nolan Baumgartner.

    The captain of the American Hockey League team ...

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  • Winnipeg hockey supporters rally in Winnipeg, Tuesday, May 31, 2011 following the announcement that an NHL team will be returning to the city after 15 years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Lipnowski

    Jets cheered, Gary Bettman jeered as fans welcome NHL hockey back to Winnipeg

    05/31/2011 2:10 PM 0

    WINNIPEG - Downtown Winnipeg has erupted into a red, white and blue party with the news that the Jets — ...

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  • INTERACTIVE: Jets vs. Thrashers

    05/31/2011 1:15 PM 0

    The puck will drop in the prairies next season! The NHL is coming back to Winnipeg! Our interactive graphic is ...

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  • Atlanta loses 2nd NHL team as struggling franchise moves to Winnipeg

    05/31/2011 4:00 PM 0

    ATLANTA - First, the Flames. Now, the Thrashers.

    The struggling NHL franchise was sold Tuesday to a group that will move ...

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  • Jonathan Toews high-fives young fans Saturday morning to promote the Jumpstart program.

    Toews itching to take on city NHL team

    05/29/2011 1:00 AM 0

    JONATHAN Toews is looking forward to making a few more visits home next hockey season.

    Sure, the proud Winnipegger will take ...

  • Hockey fans celebrate at Portage and Main after hearing about the likely return of the NHL to Winnipeg. It is wrong to say Winnipeg ‘deserves’ an NHL team. Cities don’t deserve anything. NHL owners buy or sell hockey teams.

    Lies, damn lies, & NHL hockey

    05/29/2011 1:00 AM 0

    Over the past 10 days, Winnipeg hockey fans have been following every tiny snippet of NHL news with an obsessive ...

  • FILE - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman responds to a question during a news conference in 2009.

    Bettman stays consistent on message about Thrashers

    05/25/2011 1:57 PM 0

    NHL commissioner Gary Bettman went into fire-fighting mode again today with some cold-water words for those convinced the league has ...

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  • NHL's Coyotes likely won't howl in Winnipeg, Katz says

    04/27/2011 6:38 PM 0

    WINNIPEG -- Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz said he doesn’t believe the Phoenix Coyotes will return to the franchise’s birthplace – ...

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  • Chicago businessman Matthew Hulsizer, middle, who is trying to buy the Phoenix Coyotes, cheers on the team during the second period in Game 4 of a first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs series against the Detroit Red Wings Wednesday in Glendale, Ariz.

    Hulsizer leaves Coyotes meeting early

    04/22/2011 12:31 AM 0

    Matthew Hulsizer must not have liked what he was hearing on Thursday night as he elected to take a powder and split early from the Goldwater-Glendale summit.

    The Goldwater Institute and the City of Glendale got together to discuss the stalled sale of the Phoenix Coyotes and Hulsizer was also present...

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  • Bettman a slick stickhandler

    04/21/2011 1:00 AM 0

    Gary BETTMAN, in a non-denial denial, all but confirmed Wednesday he is in discussions with True North Sports and Entertainment ...

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    A few Jets questions...

    04/19/2011 4:42 AM 0

    This return of the Jets thing is, if nothing else, a trip down memory lane. It’s fun, for those ...

  • NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, as we imagine he would look after the financial prostate exam forced upon Winnipeggers.

    NHL cash call like prostate exam

    04/15/2011 4:58 PM 0

    Often, a doctor has to employ somewhat invasive procedures to get a true temperature reading. These probes come at the ...

  • Why saddle Glendale taxpayers with risk?

    03/29/2011 1:00 AM 0

    Senator John McCain took a run at the Goldwater Institute again this week, calling them "disgraceful." McCain has gotten involved ...

  • After work with Hulsizer, Goldwater still plans court challenge on sale of Coyotes

    03/25/2011 6:50 PM 0

    After working with Matthew Hulsizer over the past 48 hours to try and get a better understanding of his deal ...

  • Hulsizer letter doesn't change Goldwater stance

    03/21/2011 7:32 PM 0

    The Goldwater Institute says its concerns in the matter of the sale of the Phoenix Coyotes have not been allayed ...

  • True North and the MTS Centre generate revenues from concerts and other events, in addition to Manitoba Moose games.

    102 million reasons to get Coyotes

    03/17/2011 1:00 AM 0

    BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Revenue and fans appear to be scarce in more markets than Phoenix, where the financially troubled ...

  • Goldwater puts pressure back on Glendale

    03/17/2011 1:00 AM 0

    The Goldwater Institute's announcement that it will back up its talk with a lawsuit once again places the onus on ...

  • It seems Winnipeg's Chris Ferguson-Martin (second from right) is a diehard Jets fan. On Tuesday in Phoenix he watched his former team play for the first time since their second-last home game in 1996, when he was eight.

    Goldwater a tough customer

    03/10/2011 1:00 AM 0

    It's hard to fathom, but some parties involved in the sale of the Phoenix Coyotes fail to understand what the ...

  • Gary Bettman: lends a helping hand to City of Glendale

    Clock ticking, NHL pushing bonds

    03/5/2011 1:00 AM 0

    The NHL is not standing idly by waiting to see if Matthew Hulsizer will sink or swim in his effort ...

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  • If we get NHL back, we better love it a lot

    03/5/2011 1:00 AM 0

    For some time now, Winnipeggers have made noise about their desire for the NHL to return to this city and ...

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  • Goldwater Institute challenges city of Glendale

    03/3/2011 1:02 PM 0

    The Goldwater Institute is ready to rumble.

    The Phoenix-based watchdog has responded to an editorial in the Arizona Republic entitled

  • Matthew Hulsizer

    Coyotes purchase no closer to closing

    03/1/2011 1:00 AM 0

    THE Goldwater Institute called Matthew Hulsizer's bluff on Monday and no imminent resolution appears upcoming in the ongoing saga of ...

  • Phoenix Coyotes' Shane Doan, left, gets a tap on the helmet from goalie Ilya Brygalov as the team celebrates Doan's overtime goal in an NHL hockey game, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, in Philadelphia. The Coyotes defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2.

    Proposed sale of Coyotes drags on

    02/25/2011 1:00 AM 0

    THE clock on the sale of the Phoenix Coyotes continues to tick with the whiff of a lawsuit jamming up ...

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  • NHL commish Gary Bettman refuses to put a deadline on the Coyotes sale.

    Don't get too worked up, Winnipeg: Bettman

    01/31/2011 1:00 AM 0

    RALEIGH, N.C. -- Even though NHL commissioner Gary Bettman acknowledges time is running short on the Phoenix Coyotes sale, he ...

  • Quebec Conservative MPs wear Quebec Nordique jerseys during a caucus meeting in Quebec City on Sept. 8, 2010. The MPs wore the jerseys to support the construction of a new arena.

    Player poll: Quebec City most deserving of NHL team, fighting belongs in game

    01/31/2011 10:14 AM 0

    TORONTO - Quebec City is the Canadian locale most deserving of an NHL team while both fighting and the instigator ...

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  • Gary Bettman says time is running short on sale of Phoenix Coyotes

    01/29/2011 7:50 PM 0

    RALEIGH, - Even though NHL commissioner Gary Bettman acknowledges time is running short on the Phoenix Coyotes sale, he doesn't ...

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  • Coyotes sale to Hulsizer on verge of closing, Bettman says

    01/29/2011 7:01 PM 0

    TORONTO — NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Saturday he believes the sale of the Phoenix Coyotes to Matthew Hulsizer is ...

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  • No deadline for Coyotes

    01/30/2011 1:00 AM 0

    TORONTO -- NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Saturday he believes the sale of the Phoenix Coyotes to Matthew Hulsizer is ...

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  • Coyotes deal looking shaky

    01/27/2011 1:00 AM 0

    TORONTO -- Bonds are failing. Lawsuits are pending. The media is in a froth. Denials are being issued. Tweeters are ...

  • Coyotes saga has governors demanding answers

    01/28/2011 1:00 AM 0

    TORONTO -- NHL commissioner Gary Bettman will walk into his board of governors meeting Saturday with his pockets empty and ...

  • Glendale bond-failure report false: NHL

    01/26/2011 5:08 PM 0

    TORONTO - A report on a Toronto radio station earlier today about the status of the City of Glendale's public ...

  • NHL's deal in the desert approaches tipping point

    01/21/2011 1:00 AM 0

    The NHL has remained patient in its bid to sell the Phoenix Coyotes to a buyer interested in keeping the ...

  • St. Louis Blues' Carlo Colaiacovo, left, and Phoenix Coyotes' Lee Stempniak chase a loose puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game Monday.

    Sale of Coyotes still not done deal

    01/11/2011 1:00 AM 0

    It's been nearly a month since the City of Glendale ripped out the hearts of Winnipeg hockey fans by passing ...

  • Winnipeg will get to see Atlanta Thrashers star Dustin Byfuglien... on television.

    NHL will Thrash about in Atlanta for a while

    01/11/2011 1:00 AM 0

    The status quo isn't going to cut it in Atlanta.

    That much can be agreed upon as some measure of focus ...

  • Young hockey fan Logan Wade, 7, addresses Glendale council Tuesday after Coun. Phil Lieberman announced his support for keeping the Coyotes in Arizona.

    Glendale Council approves Coyotes lease

    12/13/2010 12:55 PM 0

    GLENDALE, Az. - Tuesday night’s last gasp vote did not go the way many Winnipeggers were hoping and the Phoenix ...

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  • Tuesday vote will tell tale for 'Yotes

    12/11/2010 1:00 AM 0

    PHOENIX -- Glendale city council has scheduled a vote for Tuesday on a new 30-year lease for the Phoenix Coyotes, ...

  • Coyotes suitor may get $100M

    12/11/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Chicago businessman Matthew Hulsizer will likely purchase the Phoenix Coyotes in the coming weeks for $170 million, with the City ...

  • Coyotes’ purchaser could get hefty subsidy from Arizona city

    12/10/2010 8:59 PM 0

    Chicago businessman Matthew Hulsizer will likely buy the Phoenix Coyotes for US$170 million in coming weeks, and $100 million of ...

  • Phoenix Coyotes' Shane Doan keeps his eye on the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Detroit, on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010.

    Price list for would-be NHL team-buyers

    12/3/2010 1:00 AM 0

    If Mark Chipman and David Thomson are still intent on buying an NHL team, they might want to consider doing ...

  • Who's next?

    11/21/2010 1:00 AM 0

    While hockey may be Canada's most popular spectator sport, football may actually do more to unite the country.

    This counterintuitive idea ...

  • GO, — GO!!!

    11/14/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Long-suffering Winnipeg sports fans will celebrate a dubious milestone this week, as the stadium debate lurches into its sixth year.

    The ...

  • Young hockey fan Logan Wade, 7, addressed Glendale council in May after Coun. Phil Lieberman announced his support for keeping the Coyotes in Arizona.

    Coyotes deal now up to NHL governors, Glendale says

    10/15/2010 2:40 PM 0

    Chicago businessman Matthew Hulsizer is closing in on a deal to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes from the National Hockey League.

    Hulsizer ...

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  • Chicago Blackhawks' Jonathan Toews plays in an NHL exhibition game against the Tampa Bay Lightning in Winnipeg on Wednesday.

    Canadians support NHL return to Winnipeg

    09/23/2010 8:22 AM 0

    A new poll says most Canadians want to see the NHL return to Winnipeg and Quebec City but they don't ...

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    Better than most: We're no fair-weather hockey town

    09/22/2010 1:00 AM 0

    A group devoted to promoting the facts about Winnipeg's suitability as an NHL market has published a study adding more ...

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  • Winnipeg's ready for NHL's return

    09/22/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Yes, it was very kind of Steve Yzerman to say Winnipeg might someday be a nice little NHL town. But ...

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  • Prospective buyer plunks down $25M

    09/18/2010 1:00 AM 0

    A prospective buyer of the Phoenix Coyotes, widely believed to be Chicago businessman Matthew Hulsizer, has placed $25 million in ...

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    Game on: Winnipeg vs. Quebec

    09/17/2010 7:37 AM 0

    It's shaping up to be the biggest-ever hockey battle between Winnipeg and Quebec City -- which will be the first ...

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  • Ulf Nilsson , Anders Hedberg and Bobby Hull in a game against the Phoenix Roadrunners in the World Hockey Association.

    Jets documentary here Aug. 20

    08/5/2010 10:58 AM 0

    Winnipeg Jets fans looking to reminisce about the not-too-distant past can head to 4Play Sports Bar on Aug. 20 where ...

  • Jim Ludlow believes True North’s success is due in large part to treating every event, every Moose game as though all were NHL-calibre events.

    True North strong and ready

    07/6/2010 1:00 AM 0

    FP: How will the recent buzz about a possible return of NHL hockey to Winnipeg effect the Manitoba Moose for ...

  • Glendale gong show just getting started

    06/9/2010 1:00 AM 0

    The gong show in Glendale, Ariz., has only just begun.

    Jerry Reinsdorf is out of the running to purchase the Phoenix ...

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  • The city council gallery in Glendale, AZ.

    Ice Edge gets 60 days to deal on Coyotes' lease

    06/9/2010 1:00 AM 0

    THE City of Glendale, Ariz. has granted Ice Edge Holdings the exclusive right to negotiate a lease at Jobing.com Arena ...

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  • It’s hard to gauge the probability of this deal closing’ -- Ice Edge’s Daryl Jones

    Hard times may scuttle Coyotes deal

    06/8/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Ice Edge's deal to keep the Phoenix Coyotes in Arizona could be in peril due to tough financial times, says ...

  • ‘(True North president Mark Chipman and partner David Thompson) are very comfortable with the process. They told us they are prepared to be patient’ -- NHL commissioner Gary Bettman

    Bettman puts 'Winnipeg' and 'NHL' together, so we're listening, waiting

    05/29/2010 1:00 AM 0

    CHICAGO -- Patience is a virtue, somebody once said.

    Tolstoy scribbled, "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." And ...

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  • Former Jets president Barry Shenkarow received the Max and Mollie Shore Memorial Award for his community volunteerism on Wednesday night.

    Shenkarow says stay the course

    05/27/2010 1:00 AM 0

    The former largest ownership partner and president of the Winnipeg Jets thinks the city is on the right track back ...

  • NHL-calibre city? We've now got it on paper

    05/26/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Last weekend's news that the NHL has referred to True North Sports and Entertainment in an agreement between the league ...

  • Ryan Remiorz / the canadian press archives NHL commissioner Gary Bettman will move the Coyotes if his hand is forced.

    Sell Coyotes or it's the 'Peg

    05/23/2010 1:00 AM 0

    The NHL has told the City of Glendale to sell the Phoenix Coyotes to a buyer willing to keep them ...

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    Coyotes not coming: TSN report

    05/22/2010 1:00 AM 0

    The NHL and City of Glendale, Ariz., have reached an agreement that ensures the Phoenix Coyotes will remain in the ...

  • NHL, Glendale reach agreement for Coyotes to stay for another season

    05/21/2010 7:25 PM 0

    TSN's Darren Dreger says the NHL and the City of Glendale have agreed on a deal that ensures the Coyotes ...

  • Mystery group now interested in Coyotes

    05/20/2010 1:00 AM 0

    A new group has entered the game for the cash-strapped Phoenix Coyotes but it does not change the NHL's deadline ...

  • Coyotes' sticky situation just tip of iceberg for NHL

    05/15/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Anyone of a certain age will remember that act on the Ed Sullivan Show where this guy would frantically attempt ...

  • Manitoba Moose chairman and part-owner Mark Chipman has been quietly watching for an opportunity to land an NHL team for Winnipeg.

    True North is playing it smart

    05/15/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Considering the hill they needed to climb to get to this point, the strategy employed by True North Sports and ...

  • Arizona taxpayer watchdog holds its fire -- for now

    05/15/2010 1:00 AM 0

    GLENDALE, Ariz., city manager Ed Beasley has begun talks with the NHL over how it will pay the league up ...

  • ‘Ignore every rumour’

    Speaking his mind

    05/14/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Gary Bettman is no stranger to trouble.

    In his 17 years as NHL commissioner, he has presided over two work stoppages, ...

  • Bend it like Bettman

    05/14/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Is it just me, or is it getting a little negotiated in here?

    With the Phoenix Coyotes still in play, you ...

  • The Phoenix Coyotes had a good regular-season and gave the Detroit Red Wings a battle in the first playoff round, but there’s been even more action off the ice.

    Watchdog lining up lawyers

    05/14/2010 1:00 AM 0

    There will be no straight course to the finish line over the fate of the Phoenix Coyotes, at least not ...

  • 'We’ve said for several years we believe Winnipeg can support an NHL franchise. I believe at some point they’ll get an NHL franchise. I wouldn’t be discouraged or disappointed if I’m in Winnipeg at all’ -- Bill Daly, NHL deputy commissioner

    Don't give up, NHL tells city

    05/13/2010 6:37 AM 0

    GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The NHL's deputy commissioner has a message for Win­nipeg hockey fans: Don't be dejected by what happened this week in Arizona...

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  • Jets’ Keith Tkachuk vs. Nordiques, 1992.

    Quebec City joins line wooing NHL team

    05/13/2010 1:00 AM 0

    MONTREAL -- First Winnipeg, then Quebec City?

    While Manitoba awaited word on the return of NHL hockey, the would-be owner of ...

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  • NHL commissioner Gary Bettman will move the Coyotes if his hand is forced.

    There's still a fighting chance

    05/13/2010 1:00 AM 0

     

    NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is saying everything the good people of Phoenix want to hear but he remains fully prepared ...

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  • Confederacy of dunces

    05/13/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Here's a dilemma you don't have every night: Should I watch Game 6 of the blood-and-guts series between the Canucks ...

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  • 'We try not to move franchises if we can avoid it,' says Gary Bettman.

    Landmines on road to keeping Coyotes in desert

    05/13/2010 10:12 AM 0

    The City of Glendale, Ariz., has authorized its city manager to cut a deal worth up to US$25 million with the NHL to cover losses and keep the Phoenix Coyotes playing in the city's Jobing.com Arena next season, but a sandstorm is immediately on the horizon...

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  • Hockey's hotter than ever on Prairies: survey

    05/13/2010 1:00 AM 0

    WITH hockey both on television and the minds of Winnipeggers, a new poll says we're more in love with our ...

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  • Save the Jets Rally at Portage and Main, April 28, 1995. No similar passion exists in Arizona.

    Glendale repeats our long-ago mistakes

    05/13/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Three hours before boarding a (delayed) flight out of Phoenix last November, I was on the hunt for souvenirs.

    I have ...

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  • Alternate schedule or maybe it's a matrix

    05/13/2010 1:00 AM 0

    THE hot NHL rumour earlier in the week was that Winnipeg was included on an alternate schedule the NHL has ...

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  • Mayor Sam Katz

    Katz eyes other 'bleeding' NHL teams

    05/12/2010 3:04 PM 0

    WINNIPEG - Mayor Sam Katz said he isn’t surprised that Glendale's city council agreed to bail out the NHL Coyotes ...

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  • NHL offers no comment Winnipeg's inclusion in schedule

    05/11/2010 4:17 PM 0

    WINNIPEG - THE National Hockey League is declining to comment on published reports it has come up with a “contingency” schedule that includes Winnipeg.

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    Ice Edge out; True North silent

    05/11/2010 1:00 AM 0

    The folks at True North Sports and Entertainment aren't making a peep right now.

    Don't be fooled, however, into thinking there's no action going on in the downtown rink's basement offices.

    Monday night's late-breaking news...

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  • The city council gallery in Glendale, AZ, where the seven-member council votes Tuesday night on a proposal to allow city manager De Beasley to satisfy all the NHL's requirements to keep the Phoenix Coyotes in Arizona for the 2010-11 season.

    Coyotes' future just a blip on Phoenix sports radar

    05/11/2010 4:07 PM 0

    WINNIPEG - While Winnipeg hockey fans wait anxiously for the result of tonight's vote by Glendale city council, the metropolitan ...

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  • Winnipeg is looking mighty fine

    05/11/2010 1:00 AM 0

    The Young and the Homeless melodrama surrounding the Phoenix Coyotes aside, there appears to be a noteworthy development in regards ...

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    Rock and a hard place

    05/11/2010 1:00 AM 0

    GLENDALE -- For the second time in 15 years, the fate of the NHL franchise that began in Winnipeg and ...

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  • CAN WE AFFORD IT THIS TIME? The economics behind an NHL team

    05/14/2010 5:24 PM 0

    ALTHOUGH Winnipeg might be ready for an NHL franchise, the MTS Centre might not.

    Eyes have turned to the six-year-old downtown ...

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  • Ice Edge Holdings' braintrust enjoy a light moment at a Phoenix Coyotes-Toronto Maple Leafs game at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto in December 2009. From left: Anthony LeBlanc, chief executive officer; Daryl Jones, chief operating officer; Keith McCullough, chairman; and Todd Jordan, chief financial officer.

    Ice Edge breaks off talks to buy Coyotes

    05/10/2010 9:33 PM 0

    WINNIPEG — Ice Edge Holdings has walked away from the table in its bid to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes.

    "Talks have broken ...

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    Glendale council OKs NHL requirements for Coyotes

    05/10/2010 4:19 PM 0

    GLENDALE, Ariz. — The return of the NHL to Winnipeg appears to be on hold for another year, as the City of Glendale has agreed to meet the league’s requirements for keeping the Phoenix Coyotes in Arizona for the 2010-2011 season.

    Glendale’s seven-member city council voted unanimously tonight to approve a plan spend up to $25 million to hold on to the troubled franchise for another year if the NHL doesn’t find a new buyer dedicated to keeping it in Arizona...

  • Ice Edge Holdings' braintrust enjoy a light moment at a Phoenix Coyotes-Toronto Maple Leafs game at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto in December 2009. From left: Anthony LeBlanc, chief executive officer; Daryl Jones, chief operating officer; Keith McCullough, chairman; and Todd Jordan, chief financial officer.

    Ice Edge feels Winnipeg's pain

    05/10/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Daryl Jones and his Ice Edge partners feel a little queasy about getting in the way of a potential new ...

  • Mark Chipman

    True North holds its fire

    05/8/2010 1:00 AM 0

    THE Manitoba Moose and True North Sports and Entertainment released a statement Friday afternoon in response to reports Thursday that ...

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  • Don't bet on Jets yet

    05/8/2010 1:00 AM 0

    ‘COULD It Be?’

    That was the headline on the TSN home page Friday afternoon, emblazoned in bold 'Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbour' ...

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  • Deal to keep Coyotes in desert fluid

    05/8/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Ice EDGE Holdings Inc.'s chances of acquiring the Phoenix Coyotes were suddenly revived Friday, and so were the chances of ...

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  • We've all seen this movie before

    05/8/2010 1:00 AM 0

    I've finally figured out what's happening in Phoenix: It's Winnipeg in 1995 all over again.

    Deadlines involving the Coyotes come and ...

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  • Mark Chipman

    Coyotes sale goes sour in desert

    05/7/2010 1:00 AM 0

    The sale of the Phoenix Coyotes to Chicago sports tycoon Jerry Reinsdorf appears to be dead -- opening the door ...

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  • Coyotes sale to Reinsdorf dead, team headed to Winnipeg?

    05/6/2010 10:35 PM 0

    The sale of the Phoenix Coyotes to Chicago businessman Jerry Reinsdorf appears to be dead, and this increases chances the ...

  • Time for Canadian teams to contend for Cup

    05/10/2010 6:04 PM 0

    For the longest time, the thought of a Stanley Cup parade being held in Canada was about as improbable as ...

  • Moose taking care of business

    05/10/2010 6:04 PM 0

    When the governors of the American Hockey League assemble today near Chicago's O'Hare airport, they'll all have an answer for ...

  • Randy Turner has his own conspiracy theory, which begins with a caution. What you're about to read could be completely absurd, to use Gary Bettman's language. It might even be a little rash and certainly unverifiable.

    Let's connect no-goal dots

    04/23/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Somebody call Mulder and Scully, because there's a lot of conspiracy theories floating around the NHL these days.

    I've even got ...

  • FILE - In tis Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, file photo, Jobing.com Arena, right, owned by the city of Glendale, Ariz., where the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team currently plays home games, and University of Phoenix Stadium, left, where the Arizona Cardinals football team plays are shown in Glendale.

    Steal of a deal gets nuttier: Reinsdorf gets $200K if it flops

    04/16/2010 1:00 AM 0

    Not to beat a dead Coyote, but.....

    Surprise, surprise. Turns out, as suggested in this space Thursday, the lavish and too-good-to-be-true ...

  • Scoring with the NHL

    04/10/2010 7:59 AM 0

    RUMOURS and the twits and bloggers who peddle them aren't going to make the NHL come back to Winnipeg. More ...

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  • FILE - In this Thursday, May 20, 2004 file photo, Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf is shown.

    Latest Coyotes news makes it look like Winnipeg got used

    04/3/2010 1:00 AM 0

    TORONTO -- We lost an NHL team to Phoenix 14 years ago because, passionate Forks rallies or not, we ultimately ...