Finally, a final deadline.
Maybe.
Deadlines have come and gone in terms of the long-running saga involving the NHL, the Phoenix Coyotes and the City Council of Glendale, Ariz.
On Thursday, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said that if an arena management deal is not approved by the City Council, the Coyotes would not be playing in Phoenix this upcoming season. And Tuesday appears to be that day of reckoning.
“That’s a decision that needs to be made by July 2,” Bettman told reporters in New York after a regularly scheduled Board of Governors meeting.