Paul Kelly isn't going to win any friends in Phoenix with those comments. Also, why didn't anyone see this coming back when they moved the Jets to the desert in the first place? This is a travesty. I wonder if in hindsite; if the City of Winnipeg wished they would have built a new arena for the Jets?
Steve Milton ---- The Hamilton Spectator
The leader of the National Hockey League Players' Association may not overtly support a league franchise in Hamilton, but he's very blunt about what should happen to the one in Phoenix.
"From a players' perspective, it's time to pull the plug," NHLPA executive-director Paul Kelly told The Spectator last night.
Kelly says that NHL owners should not only be doubting that the Coyotes should remain in Phoenix, but that those doubts should have arisen long before now.
Earlier in the day, speaking on Toronto radio station The Fan, Kelly wondered: "How much money must (a franchise) lose before someone says "perhaps they ought not to be there?"
However, Kelly would not go so far as to back Jim Balsillie's bid to transfer the Coyotes to Hamilton: even though he's known to look favourably Balsillie's membership as an NHL owner.
Send them back to Winnipeg... I would loved to see the jets back...
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