Coach Selly
10-02-2012, 08:58
The owner of the Edmonton Oilers says he never realized that threatening to move his NHL team to Seattle would trigger a firestorm of fan anger against him in the Alberta capital.
“There was probably a little too much (bare-knuckled Mark) Messier and not enough (graceful Wayne) Gretzky in the way that we conveyed things,” Daryl Katz said Monday in a radio interview.
“What we didn’t consider was how our supporters or our fans would feel and that was wrong and I apologize for it.”
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“There was probably a little too much (bare-knuckled Mark) Messier and not enough (graceful Wayne) Gretzky in the way that we conveyed things,” Daryl Katz said Monday in a radio interview.
“What we didn’t consider was how our supporters or our fans would feel and that was wrong and I apologize for it.”
More right here (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/katz-didnt-consider-how-oilers-fans-would-feel-about-threat-to-move-team/article4580448/?cmpid=rss1)