As my screen name shows I am a fan of Hockey. Actually I am more of a fan of the Flyers because the product that the NHL is putting is unnoticeable. With that said I have said it everytime this comes up. Jim should have a franchise no matter where he wants to put it except if he wanted to move my team. (but ares is financially sound and attendance is high).

With that said little gary will never want Jim to move a team let alone own one because gary thinks transplats to southern cities will like the local team. Sorry but if I moved to Tampa I would still be a Flyers fan as I am sure other hockey fans would say.

Good luck. Give us the NHL back gary you have ruined it.

Already signed up on that site.

I believe that Jim's been trying to start/buy an OHL franchise for sometime, however with Waterloo's proximity to Kitchener and Guelph, that was always going to be next to impossible to pull off.

This would appear to be a step up from the O.

I've long though the NHL's expansion away from Canada and the North Eastern US has been, to put it politely, misguided [two teams in Florida, WTF?]. I'll support just about anything that attempts to reverse this trend.

Good stuff!

He can then move them to Waterloo and call them the Waterloo Storm?!?!? ;) Or the Waterloo Water Buffalos

BOOOOOOOO to Jim Balsillie and BOOOOOOOOOOO to Crackberry for supporting this! There are Coyotes fans out there and we love our team, I'm absolutely disappointed that this site is promoting Jim's scavenging around any struggling team to try and take them away. Hopefully the Phoenix Coyotes are howling in the desert for a long time to come, now that our incompetent ownership has outed himself as a traitor to the city.

As a native of Arizona I never grew up a hockey fan. But when the Coyotes came to town I didnt think much of it as TV does no justice to hockey. I started to attend games in person and quickly grew affection with hockey and the team. Its just too bad that the rest of the valley never really got onboard with them.

Coyotes. Another fanbase that SHOULD NOT be allowed to boo bettman. The team will never leave. Bettman will never be fired. He will increase horrible rule changes and the NHL will cease to exist.

I respect your love of the team and the sport but come on is Moyes the first owner or the second owner of this team that has failed.

Why would he do that? buy em sure but dont take em from my state

They should have never left Winipeg in the first place, now that there is a salary cap they would do well there, and they have never done well in Phoenix. All I know is if you put them in Kitchener-Waterloo (75 miles west of Toronto) the stadium will be full every night

It would be fantastic to get another hockey team in Southern Ontario!

Toronto is a legendary hockey town with the greatest fans in the World. We already have the beloved Toronto Maple Leafs but it would be great to have a second team in our City. If not Toronto, the City of Hamilton would love to have their own team.

The rivalry that would then occur between these two cities would make for very exciting hockey and the fans would be ecstatic.

Good luck Jim Balsillie.

- CB

I say Bring back the Jets..

But if that can't happen, then I agree they should move back to Canada at least.. They started as a Canadian team, and they should stay as a Canadian team..

Basilly tried to steal our Nashville Preds but we stopped him.

Keep your hands off the Coyotes, Balsillie, you're not getting them.

i see everyone complaing not to move the team! well then get someone from the U.S. to buy them or someone local, they are bankrupt, why keep them there losing money?? doesn't really make sense, move them somewhere where they will make money and sell out

The first professional hockey game I ever saw was the St. Louis Blues vs. The Winnipeg Jets. I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and have been a hockey fan almost my entire life. I've been against almost all the team relocation that have occurred in the past 25 years. The only city I feel that actually deserved a professional hockey team is Denver, but not at the expense of Quebec City. I want to see a team back there, the Jets back in Winnipeg. The Northstars back in Minnesota, but I guess the Wild will do. I'd even prefer to see a return for the Whalers.

Well, since the Rangers are out, let's go Canucks.

Bettemen will never let him move the team to southern ON. Ontario already has the hapless Leafs and, for those a little further south, the every successful Red Wings. Yes, I know the Wings are in the US and not Canada but tons of people cross the border to go to wings games and tons of Windsor residents are Wings fans. I'd love to see the Coyotes go back to Winnipeg and become the Jets again.