The deal was announced hours before the Wild faced the Phoenix Coyotes in Arizona.
Because, incredibly, those crazy folks in the City of Glendale are attempting to subsidize the Phoenix Coyotes yet again.
Last December the Phoenix Coyotes moved into a new building in Glendale, Ariz.
Just ask the Phoenix Coyotes, where too much debt and a sour real estate market sent the team into bankruptcy four years ago.
Fleming spent 14 seasons in the NHL as an assistant coach with the New York Islanders, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers and Tampa Bay Lightning.
This season, the Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers and Phoenix Coyotes are playing like teams that won't get to enjoy the final round of the conference playoffs.
If the Phoenix Coyotes do not move to Winnipeg after the NHL unloads the team, then True North Entertainment and Sports will make an offer for the Thrashers.
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So Golisano signed players who could flourish with that style of play, such as former Phoenix Coyotes captain Teppo Numminen, Chris Drury (Colorado Avalanche) and Kotalik (drafted from the Czech Republic).
But teams like the Carolina Hurricanes, Phoenix Coyotes, Tampa Bay Lightning, Anaheim Ducks and Columbus Blue Jackets would still have trouble making money unless they went at least two rounds in the playoffs.
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Despite a new and hard-fought players' collective bargaining agreement and dynamic young stars like Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, the NHL is being held back by floundering teams like the Phoenix Coyotes, which has filed for bankruptcy protection.
And the Phoenix Coyotes have been owned by the NHL for the last several years, and only this season did they win their first playoff series as a franchise since 1987 and first since arriving in Phoenix in 1996.
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Louis Blues or the Phoenix Coyotes.
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Brendan Shanahan, whose position as the league's director of player safety isn't to be confused with Valentine's old job, apparently had seen enough by the time the Phoenix Coyotes' Raffi Torres leveled the Chicago Blackhawks' Marian Hossa with a hit to the head in the third game of their first-round playoff series.
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