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Saturday April 26, 2003
CTnow.com has an article in today's edition that looks to clear up some of the rumors surriunding the talk of Howard Baldwin bringing an NHL team back to Hartford.
Baldwin confirmed that he did explore buying the Ottawa Senators.
"If I ever did anything in hockey, the place I'd want to do it would be Hartford," Baldwin said. "But it never intensified. It didn't intensify because, A, the deal was incredibly complicated. B, the pressures on my time right now are incredibly complicated."
So the NHL part is dead right now. Nail it shut. There had been talk around the league that Baldwin had backers lined up and the NHL quashed the deal because it wanted no part of a return to Hartford. Baldwin said it wasn't true. Talks never went that far.
"If I was going to do something in the NHL, I would first go to Gary Bettman," Baldwin said. "He has been good to me and I believe in working through the proper channels. I think it's safe now in Ottawa."
The article then goes on to explain that Hartford may be up to get one of the franchises in new-old World Hockey Association.