OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — There seems to be movie star curiosity in shopping for the Ottawa Senators, the Nationwide Hockey League staff on the market in Canada’s capital metropolis.
Rap impresario Snoop Dogg mentioned in an Instagram publish Monday that he was “trying ahead” to being a part of a bid by Los Angeles-based businessman Neko Sparks, who could be the primary Black proprietor of an NHL staff.
“I WANNA BRING HOCKEY TO OUR COMMUNITY,” Snoop Dogg wrote.
Final week, Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds was reportedly linked to a bid that may prime $1 billion for the staff. Neither Sparks nor Reynolds have publicly confirmed their curiosity in shopping for the Senators.
Reynolds and fellow actor Rob McElhenney final month basked within the storybook run of their Welsh soccer membership, Wrexham, which secured promotion to the fourth tier of the English sport.
The board of administrators of Senators Sports activities & Leisure introduced in November {that a} course of has been initiated for the sale of the membership. The board retained Galatioto Sports activities Companions, a agency specializing within the sports activities finance and advisory enterprise, as its monetary adviser.
“A situation of any sale will likely be that the staff stays in Ottawa,” the staff mentioned on the time.
Senators proprietor Eugene Melnyk died final 12 months at 62 after battling an sickness. He had beforehand mentioned he deliberate to go away the staff to his daughters, Anna and Olivia. Melnyk bought the Senators in 2003 for $92 million at a time when the franchise confronted chapter and a tenuous future within the nation’s capital.
A current valuation by Forbes listed the Senators at $800 million, twenty fourth out of the NHL’s 30 groups.
Below Melnyk, the Senators performed within the Stanley Cup last in 2007 when Ottawa misplaced in 5 video games to the Anaheim Geese. Ottawa almost returned to the Cup last a decade later however misplaced the deciding sport of the convention last in double additional time. Since that loss, the Senators have missed the playoffs six straight seasons.
The staff has performed on the Canadian Tire Centre in a former suburb because the area opened in 1996. The staff has expressed curiosity in constructing an area at a website nearer to downtown Ottawa.
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