The odyssey is over.
The sale of the Phoenix Coyotes is done.
Finally.
After four years of economic turmoil, future uncertainty and fan conjecture, the Phoenix Coyotes’ future is secure. The new owners took center stage Tuesday afternoon at a news conference to hearken a new day and fill the Jobing.com Arena media lounge with smiles.
Despite an umbrella of adulation, the true test begins. Going forward, the new ownership must energize a tranquil fan base, put fans in the stands and improve a bleak economic realism.
These are issues for long-term consideration. The immediate attention centers on the transfer of a franchise and hope for its future.
Basking in the glory of the moment, new owner and Coyotes governor George Gosbee stood in front of a bank of television lights, surrounded by a thicket of microphones, buried in a mine field of reporters’ notebooks and flashed smile after smile.
For the day after buying the Phoenix Coyotes from the NHL, Gosbee was beaming, joking, acting like the kid with his hand in the cookie jar and added, “a dream come true for a Canadian kid.”
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