Top Item On Docket For Lightning Owner Will Be Vinny Lecavalier
Posted by TheHockeyGuy on February 16th, 2010
It starts with Vinny. For a new Lightning owner, it always does.
He has seen them all, Vinny Lecavalier. He could tell you about the cheap ones and the mouthy ones, about the ones who patted his back and the ones who pounded their chests, about the ones who said nothing and the ones who said things you couldn’t trust.
Soon, Lecavalier will provide us with the first clues about Jeff Vinik, owner-in-waiting.
Eventually, perhaps other things will matter more when Lightning fans judge Vinik. Perhaps he will finally bring stability to the franchise. Perhaps he will finally make the rest of the league think of the Lightning as a smart, calculating franchise. Perhaps he will be hungry enough, passionate enough, wealthy enough to make the Lightning essential once again. Perhaps he’ll even hang around for a few seasons.
For now, however, there is Vinny.
Do you think Vinik can get to him?
Soon, the Lightning will be his. Perhaps by the team’s next game (on March 2), the deal will be complete. (The transaction might have been completed by now, but word is NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has misplaced his rubber stamp again, and owners say they won’t buy him a new one until at least March.)
Still, this feels as if it is all but done. Before long, Vinik will close the deal on the schizophrenia of a team and the apathy of the fans, on the underachieving players and the overpaid ones, on a defense that can allow four goals in the time it takes you to sneeze and on an offense that seems to think the net is currently starring in the final season of Lost.
Click here to read the full article – By Gary Shelton of St. Petersburg Times
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