Nashville to Hamilton with Complications.

Like you, I want the Rim dude who's name I find unpronounceable when I read it, to buy Nashville and move it to Hamilton.
Jim Balsillie (???) should just buy the crappy franchise and move it a place where the population would embrace it and joy and happiness would be spread.
Simple right?
Apparently not and it has everything to do with the Dastardly Midget Gary Bettman and of course the Evil Empire of MLSE.

I read Dave Perkins in the Star today and he made some sense of the whole mess for me.
I like Dave.
He's one of the few local guys that writes about Golf without making me want to spit.
Today he put the whole MLSE possible-objections into perspective and again no spitting.

The benefits to the NHL of a moribund franchise being sold for $238 million are obvious enough to suggest a deal eventually happens. The price clearly raises the value of the other 29 franchises and don't think Balsillie hadn't counted on that carrot when he made his offer. Plus, if Gary Bettman's NHL truly is thinking of expanding to two more U.S. cities that don't (and won't) care about hockey, the Predators' price will swell the next expansion fees.

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