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Coyotes Will Stay in Phoenix For Upcoming Season

While Coyotes' fans, Jim Balsillie and the NHL await a bankruptcy judge's ruling on who will be the next owner of the team, Balsillie, who intends to move the club to Hamilton, Ontario if he is the winner, committed to keep the team in Phoenix for the upcoming season. The NHL had earlier made the same pledge and Balsillie wanted to remove that issue from clouding his bid for the team.

Judge Baum has given no further indication on the timeline for the delivery of his opinion. He earlier had said it would be before the start of the regular season. Balsillie and Coyotes' current owner asked Baum to order mediation, a step the NHL opposes, as the league does almost automatically with any request that Balsillie makes. There has been no indication when Judge Baum will rule on that motion either.

Stay tuned, professional sports most interesting legal circus should continue to entertain us more than the Coyotes play on the ice for some months to come.

Full post as published by Sports Biz on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).