NHL Tampa Bay Lightning Personalized 3D Mask Hoodie Ver 01

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In the late 1980s, the NHL announced it would expand. Two rival groups from the Tampa Bay Area decided to bid for a franchise: a St. Petersburg-based group fronted by future Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes owners Peter Karmanos and Jim Rutherford, and a Tampa-based group fronted by Phil Esposito and his brother Tony, both members of the Hockey Hall of Fame. NHL Tampa Bay Lightning Personalized 3D Mask Hoodie Ver 01. One of the Esposito group’s key backers, the Pritzker family, backed out a few months before the bid, to be replaced by a consortium of Japanese businesses headed by Kokusai Green, a golf course and resort operator. On paper, it looked like the Karmanos/Rutherford group was better financed, but it wanted to pay only $29 million before starting play. In contrast, the Esposito/Kokusai Green group was one of the few groups willing to pay the full $50 million expansion fee up front.[5] The Esposito group would win the expansion franchise on December 6, 1990,[6] and name the team the Lightning, after Tampa Bay’s status as the “Lightning Capital of North America.”

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