Balsillie wins chance to bid for Phoenix Coyotes
This has nothing at all to do with the issues I usually cover on this blog, but being a hockey fan — I’m Canadian, after all — I must express great delight that a U.S. bankruptcy court judge, bless the man, has granted Jim Balsillie a chance to bid for the Phoenix Coyotes NHL team. Balsillie is the co-chief executive of Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion (the BlackBerry maker), and he’s a huge fan of hockey. He has put in a generous bid for the Coyotes, one that the judge called the “highest and best.” But the NHL doesn’t want Balsillie in the old boys club, largely because Balsillie wants to move the Coyotes to a true hockey town — Hamilton, Ontario — but also because they don’t like Balsillie’s aggressive style, which is all-too-rare for a Canadian businessman, IMHO.
Go Balsillie, Go!
Tags: Coyotes, hockey, Jim Balsillie, NHL
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
