Report: Glendale focusing on Jamison bid

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By Craig Morgan and Tyler Lockman

GLENDALE, Ariz. –

The Phoenix Business Journal, citing an official familiar with the Coyotes sale, reported Wednesday that that the city of Glendale has chosen to focus on former San Jose Sharks CEO Greg Jamison's group as potential owners after a private meeting of the City Council this week.

The lease will be structured to avoid legal and political challenges from the Goldwater Institute, whose opposition to a bond deal helped kill the sale of the Coyotes to Chicago businessman Matthew Hulsizer.

The Journal also reported that the other offers Glendale considered were "from a Canadian group and another cash offer from an international investment group” and that the final asking price for the Coyotes could be in "the $140 million to $150 million range."



With the Chicago press corps in town and the attention on this playoff series ratcheted up a few notches, Coyotes forward Raffi Torres couldn’t escape questions about his hit on Blackhawks forward Brent Seabrook in last year’s playoffs when Torres was a member of the Vancouver Canucks.

Torres was just returning from a four-game suspension when he leveled Seabrook behind the net in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series. He earned a penalty but was not suspended for the play.

“It was just a hockey play,” Torres said, who didn’t offer any more. “It’s playoff hockey. You’ve got to play every shift hard.”

Seabrook also brushed off the notion that any hard feelings would linger.

“It’s over,” Seabrook said. “It’s a year ago. There’s nothing left to talk about.”



Chicago center Jonathan Toews has been practicing between wings Marian Hossa and Patrick Kane, three of the Hawks top four forwards. The trio would present a major challenge for the Coyotes if that combination remained, but a pair of media members who cover the team regularly don’t expect the combination to last long before coach Joel Quenneville decides to balance his lines.

“How they’re placed and playing together, we’ll just have to read and react as that comes at us,” Coyotes coach Dave Tippett said. “Right now we’re geared about what our team has to do to be successful.”



Here’s 17-year veteran Shane Doan’s take on the NHL playoffs.

“You feel like you’re 18 again. You can’t fake it. You can’t simulate it. It’s an absolute blast to play in it.”