Senators plans to play games in Quebec City halted: Péladeau
Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau says the dying of former Ottawa Senators proprietor Eugene Melnyk has ended conversations between the workforce and his firm in regards to the Senators doubtlessly taking part in video games in Quebec Metropolis.
“There have been discussions concerning the potential for having few video games of the Senators in Quebec Metropolis,” stated Péladeau, however after the dying of Melynk, Péladeau stated he believed it was “not the precise time to think about any dialog of this nature.”
La Presse reported in March that the Quebec authorities, the NHL, the Ottawa Senators and Quebecor had held discussions with a view to bringing Senators video games to Quebec Metropolis’s for the 2022-2023 season. Quebecor would have offered the Senators with a monetary package deal in alternate for 5 video games performed on the Videotron Middle in Quebec Metropolis.
Péladeau didn’t shut the door utterly on doubtlessly reviving the talks between the Senators and Quebecor, saying: “We’ll discover out sooner or later if this challenge is feasible or not.”
Péladeau sidestepped questions on if he had any curiosity in buying the Senators, saying “there isn’t any such information about Quebecor shopping for or having an associating” with the Senators.
Quebecor has lengthy sought to return NHL hockey to Quebec. In 2015, the corporate submitted an software for an growth franchise to carry again the Nordiques after a 22-year hockey hiatus within the provincial capital, however the NHL rejected to bid, choosing Las Vegas and Seattle as an alternative.
Earlier this month, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said the Senators were not for sale. “The franchise is being professionally run,” Bettman instructed reporters. “The membership’s not available on the market. There is not any urgency. The membership’s not unstable.”
Melnyk appointed a board of administrators comprising long-time enterprise associates to supervise the day-to-day operations of the workforce previous to his dying. The workforce is presently owned by Melnyk’s two daughters, Anna, 23 and Olivia, 19.
Bettman stated that it’s “in the end his two daughters are going to should determine what they need to do” with the workforce.
Regardless of Bettman saying the Senators should not on the market, that has not stopped others from displaying curiosity in buying the workforce.
Roger Greenberg, the chief chairman of Ottawa primarily based actual property firm Minto Group, said his family would “seemingly take part” in doable new possession if the Melnyk daughters determine to place the workforce up on the market.
With information from the Canadian Press and CTV’s Michael Woods
