http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/balsillie-buys-hockey-team/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:06:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/balsillie-buys-hockey-team/#comment-265870 Jim Balsillie talks on The Hour | BlackBerry Cool Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:14:06 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/24/004583/#comment-265870 [...] a big talk show name on Canadian TV, and took some time to talk to Jim Balsillie about BlackBerry, hockey, and international governance. It’s great look at RIM’s co-CEO, so if you’ve got [...] [...] a big talk show name on Canadian TV, and took some time to talk to Jim Balsillie about BlackBerry, hockey, and international governance. It’s great look at RIM’s co-CEO, so if you’ve got [...]

]]> http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/balsillie-buys-hockey-team/#comment-136737 BlackBerryCool » Balsillie’s hockey team to set up in Hamilton? Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:32:50 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/24/004583/#comment-136737 [...] Looks like my dream of the Waterloo Blackberries is sufficiently crushed. Our plucky doctor/hockey tycoon/philanthropist/mobile multibillionnaire Jim Balsillie is looking for a place to put his new hockey team. Hamilton’s Copps Coliseum has the lease ready to go as soon as the NHL gives the green light to move the team, which will only happen once the sale actually goes through, presumably sometime by the end of June. There’s still some debate as to whether the team will move, however. NHL comissioner Gary Bettman said: “I met with Mr. Balsillie last week … and I specifically asked him whether or not he had specific plans or intentions with respect to moving the franchise, and he told me he did not,” Mr. Bettman said on the eve of the Stanley Cup final between the Ottawa Senators and the Anaheim Ducks. “And so I think there’s been entirely too much speculation in terms of what comes next.” [...] [...] Looks like my dream of the Waterloo Blackberries is sufficiently crushed. Our plucky doctor/hockey tycoon/philanthropist/mobile multibillionnaire Jim Balsillie is looking for a place to put his new hockey team. Hamilton’s Copps Coliseum has the lease ready to go as soon as the NHL gives the green light to move the team, which will only happen once the sale actually goes through, presumably sometime by the end of June. There’s still some debate as to whether the team will move, however. NHL comissioner Gary Bettman said: “I met with Mr. Balsillie last week … and I specifically asked him whether or not he had specific plans or intentions with respect to moving the franchise, and he told me he did not,” Mr. Bettman said on the eve of the Stanley Cup final between the Ottawa Senators and the Anaheim Ducks. “And so I think there’s been entirely too much speculation in terms of what comes next.” [...]

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