Today's coverage

Our Spec's coverage today begins with Nicole MacIntyre's story that Jim Balsillie wants public money to help pay for renovations to Copps Colesium. Ken Peters has a piece on the fact that there's no deal between the Balsillie group and the City of Hamilton yet. John Kernaghan looks at the lastest in the court battle over control of the Coyotes and we have a round up of events to this point.

Damien Cox of the Toronto Star says that Wayne Gretzky is supportive of the Jerry Reinsdorf bid for the team the Great One coaches.

The National Post has a story on the challenges facing some of the cash-strapped teams in the NHL.

Comments

[George]

There is more to this than we are getting told.We the tax payers will get screwed. I don,t trust hamilton city council at all.

[Dave]

might as well call the team Hamilton Hookers because the tax payers will get screwed

[Todd]

It will certainly be interesting to see how the Arizona Bankruptcy Court rules on this on May 19th. In the meantime, I'm sure that many of us will agree that this whole thing actually exposes Bettman and the way he's been trying to hide or cover-up the real truths behind some of the teams that are really in trouble in the NHL. If Bettman loses this Coyotes ruling, then it will most certainly spell the beginning of the end of the NHL's Bettman Era. As for Wayne Gretzky, I believe that he is always on the side of the NHL on these important issues so as to not burn any bridges with the NHL Board Of Governors. The reason being that he will likely succeed in becoming the NHL Commissioner one day.

[David]

This should be a no brainer...Absolutely NO MONEY should be given by the taxpayers to upgrade Copps. Most of the upgrades will go to the luxury boxes which the average Joe Taxpayer will not be able to get near. Compared to other NHL venues, Copps is a dump and needs to be bulldozed and rebuilt. Baisillie should cough up 100% of the cash to do this or get out of town.