The Rookies

As he’d been threatening to do since the beginning of the month, Judge Redfield T. Baum threw out both the NHL and Jim Balsillie’s bids for the Phoenix Coyotes today, hopefully bringing to a close one of the longest, ugliest, saddest, and yet downright boring court cases in hockey history, if not quite in sports in general. The NHL didn’t quite get what it wanted, though since Baum ruled that the league could make a bid in the future and that it does have the right to decide to who owns one of their teams, that shouldn’t matter. Read the rest of this entry →

Really? This is by no means anywhere close to a done deal but the fact that the judge in the neverending Phoenix Coyotes case, Redfield Baum, is even considering throwing out both the NHL and Canadian tycoon Jim Balsillie’s bids for the the NHL’s most misplaced franchise is probably the best chance hockey fans have had at seeing this saga end in anything but disaster. Read the rest of this entry →