NHL Franchise Notes: Jacobs Says Bruins Not For Sale

Jacobs Reiterates That Bruins Are Not For Sale

PREDATORS: In Nashville, Michael Cass reports the City Council’s Budget & Finance Committee splintered yesterday over the “dueling priorities of keeping the [Predators] and protecting the taxpayers.” Eight of the 16 committee members said that losing the team “probably would do more harm to the city’s finances than keeping it.” But three said that they were “concerned about adding to the tax burden already created” by the team. Four said that they were “somewhere in the middle,” and one declined comment. The committee is expected to hear a Sommet Center lease proposal on October 15 (Nashville TENNESSEAN, 10/3). In Hamilton, Steve Milton writes under the header “Silence Bodes Poorly For Balsillie NHL Bid.” If William Del Biaggio buys the Predators, they will "walk right into Kansas City.” The NHL will “claim that it gave [Jim Balsillie’s offer for the team] the old college try. … Then they’ll lecture us rubes about the great new hockey hotbed of Kansas City and how formerly failed markets … now support new teams” (HAMILTON SPECTATOR, 10/3).

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GOAL JUDGE SEATS: In L.A., Lisa Dillman writes with the NHL moving goal judges from behind the glass to other arena locations this season, the “underlying factor behind the move [is] revenue,” as those seats are “prime real estate.” The Ducks are selling four seats in each former goal judge location at the Honda Center -- the seats on the glass are $303, while the second row seats cost $79. The Kings have created 20 new seats, ten at each goal, and the seats will be sold as a full-season package at $200 per game. The goal judges were moved to the 200 level at Staples Center, directly behind the net. The Flames also added seats in those areas, and Media Relations Coordinator Sean Kelso said that the team will be “adding about $50,000 in revenue by making the move.” The Sabres conducted an online auction for its home opener on Friday against the Islanders for a package that includes two seats where the goal judges used to be. The club will bid the seats out as part of a package for the next four home games as well (L.A. TIMES, 10/3). Chiarelli said that the Bruins “ultimately will offer those seats for sale, but they have yet to figure out where to spot the judges” (BOSTON GLOBE, 9/30).

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