NHL, It's Time to Surrender and Move on

When I read that Jerry Reinsdorf had finally pulled his inadequate bid for the Phoenix Coyotes from the table, my initial reaction was to laugh my head off. The saviour of the NHL pulls out, unable to get the massive concessions that he knew he would have to have from the city of Glendale in order to make hockey work in Phoenix, leaving the NHL to do its own dirty work. It was a forlorn straw the NHL clung to, to begin with, and now that it is gone, Gary Bettman's only solution is a war to the death. Anyone but Balsillie.  Anything except a profitable market in Hamilton. The NHL now plans to submit its own bid and after getting control of the Coyotes, plans to sell them to any bidder who is a sucker enough to keep them in Phoenix. In spite of all the evidence, in spite of the City of Glendale telling Reinsdorf that, "We don't want hockey at any price," the NHL will not admit defeat and sign a peace treaty with Balsillie. The massive personal hatred, the allian...