Judge Rules In Favor Of Aquilini In Canucks Ownership Suit

Judge Rules In Favor Of Aquilini In Canucks Ownership Lawsuit

REAX: In Vancouver, Ed Willes writes, "It’s hard to locate noble motives and higher purposes when this much money and this many lawyers are involved but Beedie and Gaglardi pursued this action for one simple reason. They felt they’d been wronged.” They “still fought for what they believe in and while you can fault them for a number of things in this affair, you can’t fault them for that” (Vancouver SUN, 1/11). However, in Vancouver, Tony Gallagher writes the lawsuit “didn’t seem to be about getting the [Canucks] anyway. Beedie and Gaglardi knew their chances were slim [to] none and slim was in the boarding process at the airport. This seemed to be about trying to slime the Aquilinis, and it failed miserably” (Vancouver PROVINCE, 1/11).

MOVING FORWARD: The VANCOUVER SUN’s Cam Cole writes under the header, "Over Time, We'll Find Out If Aquilinis Are Good Owners." Cole: “Maybe if the Aquilinis were really super, super-rich, like Gaglardi and Beedie, the Canucks would be more of a plaything and their bottom line wouldn’t be of such vital concern, and the owner wouldn’t have to squeeze so hard for every penny of revenue in order to service the debt on the purchase. But it's their team, and these things have not affected their backing of it." Canucks GM Dave Nonis said, “Nothing changed, from our standpoint. I never was operating this team worrying about who the owner was going to be. It was never a problem in the room, the players weren’t affected by it” (VANCOUVER SUN, 1/11).

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