celine dion looking to buy hockey team

[redwingslady87 130]

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[DatsMyWings13 4]

[PenaltyShot 96 521]

.....April Fools?

[edicius 3,269]

*ahem*

:rotflmao:

Celine Dion and hockey don't exactly go well together.

(Won't someone get them a kayak and rescue them, linnnnnnnnnnnnnnnndgsjgdjgjgsr!)

[redwingslady87 130]

.....April Fools?

no kidding, it would have been a good one.

Something tells me they are more interested in acquiring the Bell Center, and the concert promotion division

than the hockey team.

[HanKarin40 7]

I saw that too. Don't know what to really think of it. Well, at least she's Canadian, so she probably knows something about the game. Look on the bright side, if things were to get bad enough in Montreal, they'd have an in house national anthem singer.

[hillbillywingsfan 794]

ties noose...oh dear god say it aint so.

[Shaman 713]

:violin: This might be the swan song for the NHL....

[ManLuv4Clears 7]

*ahem*

:rotflmao:

Celine Dion and everything don't exactly go well together.

(Won't someone get them a kayak and rescue them, linnnnnnnnnnnnnnnndgsjgdjgjgsr!)

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[Drake_Marcus 890]

no kidding, it would have been a good one.

Something tells me they are more interested in acquiring the Bell Center, and the concert promotion division

than the hockey team.

While that's possible, I'd look at it more along the lines of a pure business decision made by a proud french-Canadian. Dion is from Quebec, so there's the motivation she'd need to partially invest in the Canadians. Don't forget that it wouldn't be a love-affair type of purchase- the Canadians make s***-tons of money and the Bell Centre venue/events ownership is a cash cow too. Add to that the fact that everyone else she's teaming up with is also Quebecois and you have pretty reasonable motivation.

[ben_usmc 253]

Why does anyone care, I doubt she would change anything, except maybe horrible hype songs during TV timeouts and stuff.

[HenrikRules40 14]

You think they'll play the theme song to Titanic when the team is losing bad?

[uk_redwing 495]

I want Adam Sandler to buy a hockey team. He'd suit the Avs at the moment.

[up2here 41]

Instead of "Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey" at the end of games they will sing the theme from "Titanic".

[betterREDthandead 58]

Why does anyone care, I doubt she would change anything, except maybe horrible hype songs during TV timeouts and stuff.

Exactly....what could Celine Dion do to a hockey team that hasn't already been done by someone like, say, Bill Wirtz?

[selkie 10]

I'd rather see a person buy the team than a pension plan or investment firm. Those types have to inherently be all about marginal returns on theri investments and such, and that can easily come at the expense of putting a good team on the ice.

And it kind of makes sense for a notable singer with her current business interests to buy one of the biggest and potentially profitable concert venues in Canada. I assume her family would run the concerts and other events division at Bell and have a fairly hands off approach to the hockey side of things.

The worst of it probably would be fans getting stuck with the Celine versions of the anthems before every game. (Yeah, I've heard the Whitney version of the US anthem enough at this point to have gotten dick of it 10+ years back)

[MacK_Attack 108]

It would technically be Dion's husband/manager buying the Habs.

But I hear that Molson wants back in, along with at least a dozen other groups/people.

This one will be a deal in the billions of dollars.

[brutus 0]

I'd rather see a person buy the team than a pension plan or investment firm. Those types have to inherently be all about marginal returns on theri investments and such, and that can easily come at the expense of putting a good team on the ice.

And it kind of makes sense for a notable singer with her current business interests to buy one of the biggest and potentially profitable concert venues in Canada. I assume her family would run the concerts and other events division at Bell and have a fairly hands off approach to the hockey side of things.

The worst of it probably would be fans getting stuck with the Celine versions of the anthems before every game. (Yeah, I've heard the Whitney version of the US anthem enough at this point to have gotten dick of it 10+ years back)

Hehe...you said "...dick of it 10+..." niiiiice...

[YoungGuns1340 1]

Celine Dion can't have a hockey team, but Gary Bettman is qualified to be the commissioner of the entire league? Give me an effing break.

Celine Dion and her husband are a smarter business pair than many out there.

[cusimano_brothers 1,655]

If Gillett decides to sell of some or all of his team ownerships, this might be the one that involves the highest selling price.

They wouldn't move them to Las Vegas, would they?

[EuroTwin 240]

If Gillett decides to sell of some or all of his team ownerships, this might be the one that involves the highest selling price.

They wouldn't move them to Las Vegas, would they?

Celine Dion is from Quebec, and she's a smart enough businesswoman to know better than that, even if they did somehow get permission to move the team (which has a .00000001% chance of happening).

[55fan 5,133]

If Gillett decides to sell of some or all of his team ownerships, this might be the one that involves the highest selling price.

They wouldn't move them to Las Vegas, would they?

That was my first thought. It was just a silly one, though, as I knew she was Canadian.

What YG1340 said as well.

[hmmthesharks 0]

It better not be the Sharks!

[selkie 10]

Hehe...you said "...dick of it 10+..." niiiiice...

Gaargh! I am awful when it comes to typos, and spellcheck doesn't catch everything. Shoulda been 'sick of it.'

[Guest Four]

She can buy Phoenix and dig their grave.