By Peter Corbett and Garrett Mitchell, The Republic | azcentral.com
In a tense political showdown with hockey fans and a team owner, the Glendale City Council voted to void a 15-year agreement with the Arizona Coyotes just less than two years after the city approved the $225 million deal.
The decision creates uncertainty for the Coyotes’ upcoming season and likely will trigger a legal challenge by the team’s attorneys.
Attorney Nick Wood said litigators for the Coyotes will start work on claims seeking $200 million from Glendale.
Before the vote, Wood warned Glendale officials, “If you decide to go forward, you will lose and it will cost taxpayers millions of dollars.”
Coyotes President Anthony LeBlanc called the city’s action political grandstanding and said it is “not ethical in the court of public opinion.”
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