Minnesota North Stars Jersey, I\'m too young to remember the Minnesota North Stars playing here in Minnesota or them moving to Dallas. But I can imagine all the fans being disappointed at Minnesota\'s hockey team leaving. If the Minnesota Wild ever left, I would be absolutely heart broken, devastated, crushed - use whatever word you want. So would every other hockey fan in Minnesota.
Of course I\'m talking about relocating hockey franchises. I don\'t particularly like the idea of owners moving franchises because it can create more than one problem. Even if ownership changes hands and a new owner comes in, the new owner should not be able to move the franchise for a minimum amount of time. I can understand if it\'s absolutely necessary for a franchise to move, such as poor attendance/ revenue or moving to a more profitable market area, but otherwise they shouldn\'t.
A good example of this is what\'s happening with the Nashville Predators. Billionaire and Blackberry CEO Jim Ballsillie has signed a letter of intent to buy the Predators from the current owner, Craig Leipold. If the sale of the Nashville Predators is approved, there will be a clause in the consent agreement with the NHL that Ballsillie would have to sign specifically stating that he will not relocate the Predators for a certain amount of time - seven years to be exact.
But I also read and heard that if he is not able to get attendance to average 14,000 fans per game next season so that there is a cumulative average of 14,000 fans between last season and this coming up season, then he can move the team because a possible loophole that could get the team out of their lease early with Sommet Center, the arena they play in. Which is also tied into the lease that Nashville has with the arena. Beth Harris said in her article on Yahoo!, Bettman: Nashville franchise `is not going anywhere,\' that there has to be a lease between the team Minnesota North Stars Jersey and Minnesota North Stars Jersey the arena where the team is playing.
There is a lease between the Predators and Sommet Center but a loophole could prevent the team from staying in Nashville if attendance averages less than 14,000 fans per game cumulatively for two consecutive seasons, as I just mentioned. For example, if there is a total average of less than 14,000 between last season and this upcoming season then the team could get out of the lease. That\'s how current owner Craig Leipold understands it anyways. But of course \"city politicians and lawyers appear to be interpreting the lease differently than Leipold [-] the \"early termination\" clause has to be invoked one year ahead of time, which Leipold planned to do soon. But one Nashville city lawyer said...that the Predators couldn\'t invoke their escape Minnesota North Stars Jersey clause until after the 2007-08 season, meaning they couldn\'t leave the city until 2009\" (Lebrun, Collision Course over Hamilton Plan).
So in theory, Ballsillie could move the team either after this coming up season, 2007-2008, or after the 2008-2009 season if the Predators don\'t average 14,000 fans per game cumulative through the end of next season.
If you had been reading up on NHL news the last few months, Jim Ballsillie had also put in a bid to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins but then later withdrew it. The Penguins had been talking about possibly relocating if they couldn\'t get an agreement done with the city and state for a new stadium, but eventually they did. If Ballsillie had ended up buying the Penguins, he would have moved them to Canada, near Hamilton in Ontario.
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