Subject: Hockey

• Adult Stick Time

  November 29, 2007

• On Second Life, the Sprint Center Goes Latino

  April 20, 2007

• The New Sprint Rumor

  June 7, 2007

• The Star's Optimistic Ways

  December 5, 2007

• Kansas City ‘Uninterested’ in the NBA

  February 20, 2008

• AEG Misses Yet Another Deadline

  August 15, 2008

• Sprint Center, Kansas City Used by Penguins

  August 15, 2008

• NHL considers putting a team in ... Toronto?

  October 22, 2008

• Best Hope to Increase Attendance at Blades Games

  October 19, 2000

• NY Islanders landlocked in KC? Not so fast

  Kansas City and AEG are working on getting a pro basketball or hockey team for the Sprint Center. That's what City Manager Wayne Cauthen told The Downtowners lunch club yesterday. He specifically mentioned the New York Islanders. I saved this shaky video from yesterday's dispatch.  Since the announcement that the Islanders booked an exhibition game at the Sprint Center, there's been a lot of talk about the team getting landlocked in Kansas City. A lot of people saw the exhibition game a

  February 12, 2009

• Tourist Trap

  August 1, 2002

• Freaks and Greeks

  January 9, 2003

• Puck of the Draw

  May 29, 2003

• How Suite It Is

  May 20, 2004

• Enough with the New York Islanders to KC talk

  We're going to be hearing about the New York Islanders' possible move to Kansas City until at least September. That's when New York will play an exhibition game at the Sprint Center. Until then, we'll be reading news stories like the one in yesterday's Kansas City Star or today's Long Island Business News. But the stories contradict each other. The Star says the Islanders have an out. The Business News story calls the contract "iron clad." I'm pretty tired of all of the speculation, especially k

  February 27, 2009

• Our New Look

  September 21, 2006

• Our Lone Enforcer

  January 18, 2007

• Vicarious Fandom

  September 18, 2008

• Down Under Rules

  September 11, 2008

• The Love Guru

  June 19, 2008

• Don't Fall

  November 8, 2007

• Zambonis in the Northland

  April 26, 2007

• Penguins owner: We’re coming to KC. Or not.

  Lemieux tells reporters that he’s stepping up negotiations to move or stay or something.

  March 8, 2007

• A Cold Day In ...

  January 18, 2007

• Mayor Reveals City Could Shell Out for Practice Facility

  January 11, 2007

• Cold as Ice

  October 19, 2006

• Penguins Owner Rejects Kansas City

  The Sprint Center’s most likely tenant bows out, increasing the chance that the new arena could be empty when it opens next fall.

  October 19, 2006

• Penguins Owner Rejects Kansas City

  The Sprint Center’s most likely tenant bows out, increasing the chance that the new arena could be empty when it opens next fall.

  October 12, 2006

• We're Pucked

  September 7, 2006

• Raiders Haters

  November 3, 2005

• Water Worked

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  September 29, 2005

• Über All

  September 22, 2005

• The Puck Stops Here

  Could these Outlaws save local sports?

  October 14, 2004

• War on Ice

  The NHL comes to town.

  September 25, 2003

• Hey, Big Spencer

  His last name's Laurie, but don't let that fool you.

  January 16, 2003

• Pardon Me

  A former Black Panther awaits justice.

  April 5, 2001

• Scaring up a crowd

  So why is the state capital cawing about the Crows?

  January 13, 2000

• KC's NHL 21 watching Phoenix Coyotoes

  I was a little puzzled when I found this fax from NHL 21 on the machine this afternoon."NHL 21 is keenly aware of the Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy situation. We stand ready, willing and able to assist at the appropriate time with the future search for ownership of an NHL club member in Kansas City at Sprint Center, when so deemed appropriate by the NHL Board of Governors. Currently NHL 21 is focused on the LA Kings vs New York Islanders game at Sprint Center September 22 this coming fall," said Pa

  May 21, 2009

• Report: KC's elite hot for some NHL action

  As the Sprint Center gradually loses its new arena smell, the odds of Kansas City landing an NHL or NBA team seem more remote. But one booster is making sure that KC at least looks poised to snatch up the next hockey team willing to relocate.A weekly newspaper in Columbus, Ohio, The Other Paper, ran a story earlier this month suggesting that Kansas City was "the dame at the end of the bar ... making eyes at" the Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL. Delighted with the metaphor, the writer of the sto

  June 16, 2009

• Chances 'slim' of New York Islanders moving to KC, Newsday says

  ​Great tickets are still available for the September preseason game between the New York Islanders and the Los Angeles Kings. That's what Newsday columnist Jim Baumbach wrote a couple of days ago.Want two seats 11 rows back just off center ice? They could be yours for just $75 a pop, plus a $9.65 convenience charge and $1 building facility charge, of course. (Sorry, the $150 tickets appear to be sold out.) Good deal that the most expensive tickets are gone. Bad deal that lower bowl tix are s

  July 30, 2009

• Ice Off

  September 17, 2009

• New York Islanders sign 99-year lease, then threaten to move

  ​AEG president TIm Leiweke was right to downplay the rumors that the New York Islanders might get landlocked in Kansas City's Sprint Center. Not just because the Islanders weren't likely to skate into the Sprint Center. But maybe because Islanders owner Charles Wang is a little too unpredictable for Leiweke's taste (not to mention Wang's franchise sucks). Reuters reported today that the Islanders had inked a new deal with Nassau County to renovate the existing arena and signed a 99-year lease.

  October 2, 2009

• KC falls below Quebec on list of NHL suitors?

  ​The latest report on Kansas City's standing among cities clamoring for an NHL franchise isn't good. The Toronto Star cites an October 11 comment from deputy commissioner Bill Daly that gives good vibes to Canadian cities where the NHL once called home: "Both Winnipeg and Quebec have already done that (supported an NHL team). We'll see how things evolve. That doesn`t mean that Hamilton won`t be considered. It will be." The Star cites sources close to the hockey league that say "the six Canadia

  October 19, 2009

• Sneak Peek: Independence Events Center

  ​Workers will be putting in long hours in the next few days preparing the Independence Events Center for its opening weekend. The building holds 5,800 for hockey. Its principal tenant is the Missouri Mavericks, who are 2-5 in Central Hockey League play. The team practices in an adjacent rink that's open to the public when large, skilled Canadians are off the ice.In addition to hockey, the events center is vying for concerts too big for the Uptown but not quite worthy of the Sprint Center. The

  November 4, 2009