If you had to bet on a destination for the perpetually bleeding Phoenix Coyotes, you would bet that the whole misbegotten desert adventure would be packed into moving trucks in the spring and carted to a place where local government would do just about anything, where there was deep-pocketed ownership waiting, where a building was being erected at no cost to the National Hockey League or any of its affiliates. You would bet on Quebec City, and not suffer a moment’s worry.
Until Thursday, that is, when an previously unknown hedge fund magnate presented an arena plan for Seattle, the town that basketball — or at least the NBA — forgot. Seattle native Christopher Hansen has apparently been talking to local officials for a year, and mayor Mike McGinn laid out what...
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