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BlackBerry CEO Wants to Move an NHL Team to Canada. After April’s Debacle, May I Suggest the Flyers?

Here’s a story my buddy Chris L. and I have been talking about: Jim Balsillie, the CEO of Research In Motion, makers of the BlackBerry attention-deficit device, wants to move the bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes to Hamilton, Ontario. (After what I saw on April 25, he can have the Flyers. Maybe after 35 years we need to blow the team up and start all over.)

Anyway, he’ll have to clear a lot of hurdles to move the team, including opposition from the NHL. But Balsillie seems to be an impressive guy:

“Unlike many college athletes turned chief executives, Balsillie did not leave sports behind. He heads to a hockey rink once a week at 5:30 a.m. to train and plays twice a week in a local old-timers league. He also competes in triathlons and cycles, and he coaches teams that include his two children … A 10-handicap golfer, Balsillie controls GolfNorth Properties, which owns 19 semiprivate courses in Ontario.”

OK … CEO of a hot tech company. Married with 2 sons. Hockey, golf, triathalons. Does this guy ever sleep?

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).