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Without Frank Sr.
could be anywhere

— Gan
Douglas

GOAL LINES *~

BELATED CON-:
GRATULATIONS ‘to. West’:
Frank: ’.

Vancouver’s. -MfP..: :
Griffiths:for being» elected
to the Hockey. Hall of Fame
‘builders’ category..

The’ Canucks” chairman literally

= saved Vancouver's IWHL franchise -

o- when’. he- purchased ° the. club ‘in
‘1974 during some ‘agitating times
at the ownership level.

: Those were the days when Min-.
“‘Nesota-baséd: Thomas K: Scaiten
-fost control of the, franchise when

e:was charged with theft and fil-
ing a false | prospectus.

The then-owner. of:the Canucks |
ppealed : a. ‘four-year - ‘sentence,
ad it reduced to two years less a

; and » actually - spent _ nine

pient "(1990) oF th

prestigious : Golden Heart Com-
munity ‘Achievement: Award, put
his money.on the line to buy the
Canucks:, when-: several. other-

. well-heeled’ ‘members: of the -Van-. .

‘couver’. business, society: talked a
at but developed feet'as cold as a.
frozen: hockey. puck’ when crunch
time came:*) ©.
The © Griffiths ‘family rode the
; troubled . “waters .through :some
disastrous years‘in.the’ mid-to- late
1970s but never lost faith. .
as always” Frank Sr.
who ‘steered th ship: : :

.” game of the 1992-93 schedule and
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Norm Green to turn in his keys to
the Met Center by midnight.

Green abandoned the Min-
neapolis scene with his an-
nouncement in mid-season that he
was moving his NHL franchise to
Dallas.

The Commission. demanded
$45,000 in unpaid-interest on late
rent payments and insisted on, be-
ing paid its final 2% cut of park-

ing and concession receipts by the ©

same midnight deadline. |

Talk about your dirty divorces.

Now that the NHL has settled
on its new configuration of 14
teams in. the East and 12 in the
West, there is talk of yet another
expansion by two more teams.

The faithful fans: in Minnesota

‘have been assured by civic of-
‘ficials- they would apply for an
‘expansion team, but there would

be’ severe competition from the
likes of San Diego,

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Phoenix, -

anucks
eA.

Houston and — are you ready? ~
Seattle.

Where these same cities balked
at the $50 million entrance fee just
a féw years ago, suddenly there i is
renewed interest. .

‘*We have not focused on what .

expansion, if any, will ‘come
next,’ NHL commissioner Gary

Bettman says. . -

Then he quickly adds: “Our

‘original expansion plans called for

seven new teams in the 1990s and
five have been added so far.’

The reasons why it wouldn’t be"

surprising to see the NHL add two
more franchises are many.

For one, they would make the
NHL that much more attractive to
network television, an ongoing
goal of the new league leadership.

For, another, those $50 million
franchise fees are an attractive
windfall for the current owners.

Wednesday, April 14, 1993 ~ North Shore News ~ 43

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