{"id":158591,"date":"2007-06-14T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2007\/06\/14\/one-time-penguins-savior-balsillie-to-try-to-move-preds\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T15:06:00","slug":"one-time-penguins-savior-balsillie-to-try-to-move-preds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/one-time-penguins-savior-balsillie-to-try-to-move-preds\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Time Penguins&#8217; Savior Balsillie to Try to Move Preds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.usatodaysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2016\/09\/0db4d-72098619.jpg\"><img alt=\"One-Time Penguins' Savior Balsillie to Try to Move Preds\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.usatodaysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2016\/09\/0db4d-72098619.jpg?w=220\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This is news? Everyone in Pittsburgh knew Jim Balsillie wanted to move the Pens. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/07165\/794089-61.stm\">Now he&#8217;s doing the same to the Preds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This dude doesn&#8217;t even deserve any more mentions in Pittsburgh. He put on the &#8220;I want to keep the Pens in Pittsburgh&#8221; facade, but his knees buckled when Mario said the sale would only go through if the Pens stayed in Pittsburgh. Balsillie showed his true colors and left.<\/p>\n<p>The Predator fan base holds no candle to that of the Pens, and Nashville is hardly a place for hockey. A move makes sense, but PSaMP just can&#8217;t stand Jim Balsillie. And PSaMP in no way manipulated his Blackberry on MS Paint. It actually said that. I saw it with my own two eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is news? Everyone in Pittsburgh knew Jim Balsillie wanted to move the Pens. 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