As I’ve said here many times, the Islanders are a franchise to watch over the next few years. On September
14th, I mentioned that Wang probably wants to sell the Islanders as one of the reasons for the Islanders potential Relo candidate. Well it looks like Wang is shopping the Islanders around. The New York post has an excellent article on the rumor here.
As the article states, the asking price of Wang is alegedly around 300M which is an asking price that is double the value Forbes estimated last year. It is also close to 3 times the price of the Atlanta Thrashers were sold to True North that moved the team to Winnipeg. Wang is probably early on in this process and might be using this as a scare tactic to Nassau County officials. If the team is sold to a group that consists of LaFontaine, a relo becomes unlikley being that he lives on Long Island. He might be the Lemieux of this ownership group that comes in as the face of the organization when working with city and county officals to get an arena subsidies.
The bottom line…Wang might have put this team on the market but might be setting his price way too high at this point considering the Coyotes still can’t seem to find a buyer.
