The puck drops in NHL-Coyotes faceoff (Dealscape

The battle for the Phoenix Coyotes began in earnest on Thursday as Dewey Ranch Hockey LLC and the National Hockey League fired their first shots at each other in bankruptcy court.

The NHL was blindsided by Dewey's filing and the $212.5 million asset purchase agreement signed with Jim Balsillie, who heads BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. The league has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Arizona in Phoenix to proclaim it the owner of the franchise, allowing it to represent the team and keep it in Phoenix.

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NOT A SUBSCRIBER? The puck drops in NHL-Coyotes faceoff Posted on May 8, 2009 4:29 PM The battle for the Phoenix Coyotes began in earnest on Thursday as Dewey Ranch Hockey LLC and the National Hockey League fired their first shots at each other in bankruptcy court. The NHL was blindsided by Dewey's filing and the $212.5 million asset purchase agreement signed with Jim Balsillie, who heads BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. The league has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Arizona in Phoenix to proclaim it the owner of the franchise, allowing it to represent the team and keep it in Phoenix. This is a free preview of the content available in The Deal Pipeline. Subscribers enjoy access to the full story, as well as second-to-none research tools. To request a demo, or, if you are an existing user to The Deal Pipeline, log in to your account, please scroll down and click the button. Dig deeper, with Pipeline. 31 in-depth reports of Bankruptcy M&A deals in the Leisure sector 25 articles related to Jim Balsillie 14 company pages related to Hockey 13 articles related to the Phoenix Coyotes 10 years of news and analysis archives from the voice of The Deal Economy Most searched keywords Deutsche Bank Skadden Arps Pinnacle Foods Concho Resources Agrium Inc. Birds Eye Cantor Fitzgerald Credit Suisse Windstream Corp. Goldman Sachs		EXISTING USERS Username Password Forget your password? Missing a product?

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