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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- George Gosbee and Anthony LeBlanc fulfilled every Canadian boys dream last week by becoming NHL owners. But before they had even completed the deal to buy the Phoenix Coyotes from the league, Gosbee, LeBlanc and their partners were already in the crosshairs. The issue was the five-year out clause they put in an arena lease agreement with the city of Glendale. On one hand, they understood the consternation; Coyotes fans had gone through an emotional roller coaster in four years of waiting for an owner. What bothered the members of IceArizona was that they had no intention of moving the team. That would mean they had lost $50 million in their new venture and had failed, something none of them have had much experience with. "Its frustrating for me because for this exit clause to kick in, we have to lose $50 million and thats not something I want to do," Gosbee said. "We came into this to build a successful organization in Phoenix and thats our plan. We have no plans of relocating anywhere else and we have no plans to lose $50 million, I can tell you that." For LeBlanc, buying the Coyotes completed an arduous quest that lasted more than four years. He started his career as a salesman for a regional cellphone company in New Brunswick and later joined Research in Motion just as it was developing the Blackberry. LeBlanc worked his way up through the ranks in eight years with the company, becoming a marketing executive before leaving in 2008 to pursue his dream of owning a hockey team. He started Ice Edge Holdings with a goal of bringing a major junior or minor league team to Thunder Bay, Ontario, where his family moved when he was 10. After former Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes took the team into bankruptcy in 2009, LeBlanc shifted his focus toward the Valley of the Sun. His initial effort, with partner Daryl Jones, fell through, as did a minority ownership with Chicago businessman Matthew Hulsizer. LeBlanc also was working with former San Jose Sharks CEO Greg Jamison in his attempt to buy the team. When Jamisons bid fell through in January, LeBlanc decided to take one more crack at buying the Coyotes. This time, he and Jones brought in Gosbee, a Calgary businessman whose specialty was completing complicated financial transactions. "If George didnt get involved, we wouldnt have bought this team, its as simple as that," LeBlanc said. Gosbee grew up in Alberta and, like LeBlanc, spent his Saturday nights watching Hockey Night in Canada and loved playing shinny games with kids in the neighbourhood. His two sons are also accomplished hockey players; John plays for a Junior A team in Port Alberni, British Columbia, and Carter at a high-performance school in Calgary. Gosbee made his mark professionally in energy investment banking, handling mergers and acquisitions for numerous companies. Once he became a part of the group trying to buy the Coyotes, Gosbee put his background to perfect use, bringing in what had been lacking in previous deals: investors with hard cash to spend. Gosbees ability to close the deal earned him the moniker the Great Gosbee and helped him offset the devastation of having his Calgary home flooded out in June. "We had a good partnership and were able to put all the missing pieces together," said Gosbee, who is now looking to buy homes in Calgary and Phoenix. "I thought if I was able to deliver the last piece to it, I was comfortable with it (being called the deal saviour), but there was a lot of legwork done before I got there." Though theyve only known each other since Gosbee came on board in February, the two have become fast friends. Gosbee and LeBlanc have the common bond of being Canadians who love hockey and have reached the upper echelons of their fields of expertise. Theyre also different in ways that complement each other: LeBlanc the gregarious salesman, Gosbee the calculating businessman. "I would say it was the perfect partnership," said Gosbee, the teams new governor. "Were similar in some aspects. Hes got some strengths Ill never get near to and I think I have some strengths where he doesnt have the experience with, so its a great combination." The task ahead for Gosbee and LeBlanc is making the Coyotes a successful venture in a market that has, at times, been nonchalant in its support for hockey. When the team is winning, the fans will latch onto the bandwagon, as they did when the Coyotes went to the Western Conference finals two years ago. Gosbee and LeBlanc gave general manager Don Maloney more financial leeway in this years free-agent period -- he was able to lure top-line forward Mike Ribeiro to the desert -- and plan to give him a bigger bankroll in the years to come. While being run by the NHL, the Coyotes had limited marketing options, so now the new owners have started aggressively marketing the team to increase suite and season-ticket sales, along with corporate sponsorships. With a competitive team, better marketing and a firm ownership group in place, Gosbee and LeBlanc believe hockey can be successful in the Valley. "We have a really strong hockey side of the business," said LeBlanc, who is working on getting his immigration status cleared before buying a home in Arizona. "Im not going to sit here and guarantee were going to go to the playoffs or win the Stanley Cup, but I will guarantee this is a franchise that is going to play hard and be competitive every night. You have that and strong ownership, those two things are the litmus test you need." Now that they own the team, its time for Gosbee and LeBlanc to see if they can pass the test and make the out clause a moot point. Clearance NBA Jerseys . 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The past few years of weekly WWE content have often fallen victim to drawn-out talking segments to open either Raw or SmackDown.Complaints regularly center on conversations that carry on -- drag on, really -- for more than 20 minutes, just to get to one line or a catchphrase at the very end.With five-plus hours of content to fill on a weekly basis, sometimes things need to be stretched out -- getting creative with the assets available. Its all led to a lot of unrest from the WWE universe and a tendency to cut into every empty space in dialogue with the dreaded what chants popularized by Stone Cold Steve Austin -- chants that have subsequently been overused by lazy crowds with short attention spans that tend to send segments even further off the rails.While there were hints of that kind of behavior at brief moments during the semi-opening segment of SmackDown Live on Tuesday (the actual opening of the show was an almost Saturday Night Live-inspired skit involving Heath Slater, but more on that later), there was no mistaking that something different was in the air as Dean Ambrose and Dolph Ziggler entered Miz TV.After a brief introduction from Maryse, The Miz took over the mic and got in about 10 words in before Ambroses music abruptly cut him off -- something Ambrose has made a habit of doing any time he appears on The Mizs interview segment. This time around, Ziggler was around to return the favor, quickly cutting Ambrose off as he too made his way to the ring.What followed over the next 12 minutes was a master class in building up hype for the WWE championship match at one of the biggest WWE shows of the year.There was a casual back-and-forth to begin with, as The Miz made the kind of valuable contributions hes all but perfected over the past decade in the WWE. In a confrontation between two good guys -- albeit good guys with an edge or an angle to them -- Miz stirred the pot just enough at the beginning to get things cooking and then stepped back to enjoy the show in the corner with Maryse.There he is, Ambrose said, responding to a fairly standard boast from Ziggler. Thats that new Dolph Ziggler, that laser-focused Dolph Ziggler -- so much fire, so much intensity, so much aggression. You know, Miz, a lot of people are saying that Dolph has turned some kind of corner, but this new Dolph -- I dont buy it.The seeds had been sown well over the past few weeks, with both Ziggler and Ambrose getting in both verbal and actual jabs on the way to SummerSlam.The tension continued to grow from there.What do you want from me, Dean? Ziggler asked. You want me to admit that I used that the company never got behind me as fuel every single day ... that day after day, night after night, year after year, I use all the critics and the naysayers as fuel to make myself better?Ambrose hit his groove and set the stage for a memorable finale to the segment.The day you win the WWE world championship is the day the pressure really gets turned up, and Dolph, we both know you dont like pressure -- you never have, Ambrose said. You cant handle pressure.Take a look at this. Take a look at how big this chip on your shoulder has gotten. Let me tell you something -- this chip on your shoulder? Its going to weigh you down. Its going to bury you, because you have never felt pressure like youre going to feel at SummerSlam when youre in the ring with me and trying to take my championship away.Youre going to prove something, all right? ... Youre going to prove that you dont want it bad enough. Youve never wanted it bad enough, and youre never going to get it.Ambrose held up the title as the two got closer.? Ziggler paused for what most expect will be his heart-felt reply: his last comments on the matter before the pair meets for the WWE championship at SummerSlam. Then came this:Can @TheDeanAmbrose defeat @HEELZiggler with ONE LAST MOVE at #SummerSlam? @HEELZiggler thinks otherwise... #SDLive https://t.co/qeoPQ88fIE- WWE (@WWE) August 17, 2016With Ambrose hanging onto every last word like the rest of the crowd, he doesnt notice that Zigglers taken a half-step back in the midst of his screams and gesticulations -- and in the time it takes Ambrose to blink, Ziggler snaps off a vicious superkick to lay Ambrose out.Hes suddenly calm, and a great segment has been completed wiith Miz and Maryse stunned and smiling in the background.ddddddddddddHits and missesIt would be a tall task for anyone to follow that promo, but the 12-man tag match and everyone in it knew what they were doing. It was a fun-at-times spot fest, including a run of about eight straight finishers, and it should come as little surprise that American Alpha got the victory (after one of the slickest grand-amplitude throws?Jason Jordan and Chad Gable have ever rattled off, I might add) and most of the attention, with the Usos second-best. It seems like a pretty clear path to these two teams squaring off whenever the SmackDown Live tag titles become a reality..@HeathSlaterOMRB was offered a contract for #SDLive... but did he want one for #RAW instead? https://t.co/tU4WH2SJJL- WWE (@WWE) August 17, 2016They keep trying new things with the SmackDown womens division, and Naomi debuted a new EDM gimmick. Perhaps building off of the popularity of something that worked -- her crazy color-changing light-up shoes -- Naomi was now going all-out, with black-light-sensitive clothes and hair, all glowing green in the darkness as she tossed out glow-in-the-dark bracelets and necklaces. All of this was a precursor for another chapter of the Eva Marie cant wrestle tonight show. After a full intro from her announcer, he trailed off and quietly said, All-red everything -- Eva Marie! ... has been delayed due to traffic. Thats another week of this and another job well done. A womens tag match later in the show brought out both Eva Marie and Naomi, setting up a six-woman tag match for SummerSlam (Carmella, Naomi and Becky Lynch vs.?Alexa Bliss, Natalya and Eva Marie). There are bright things ahead for most of these women, but for now, a spot on a card that stretches through two hours of preshow and four hours on pay-per-view will have to suffice.The saga of Heath Slater continues. One night after getting mercilessly beat down by Brock Lesnar, Slater got a taste of the other side of one of the SummerSlam main events in Randy Orton. The skit that opened SmackDown, which involved Slater stealing a bereavement basket of fruit and attempting to pass it off as a peace offering to Daniel Bryan and Shane McMahon, was more of Slater spinning nothing into something. His win by disqualification and subsequent backstage segment in which he blew it again with a contract in hand is a testament to the great work hes doing. Heres hoping hes a free agent for some time to come.Speaking of Orton, he has looked like an absolute star in the lead-up to his match with Lesnar. The channeling of Lesnar and the suplexes on Slater were a nice touch -- and Ive been made to feel as though Orton has a chance Sunday. Does he, though?Ambrose vs.?Erick Rowan was a filler match -- fine for what it was as it was going on. Even though his time was limited in this episode, Bray Wyatt stole the spotlight and served as a reminder that he could play a very big role in how things play out on Sunday. Poor Rowan. He hasnt had a major match where things have turned out his way in ages, since the peak of the Wyatt Family and maybe earlier than that. He even lost a blink-and-youll-miss-it match to The Rock at Wrestlemania. The WWE misses Luke Harper, but Rowan misses him most of all. With Wyatt seemingly leaving Rowan behind, Harper might be his only salvation. On a side note, Ambrose is going to separate his shoulder doing that rebound clothesline one of these days.There were a few bright spots for Alberto Del Rio in this match against?John Cena, but the flashbacks of just how hot he was coming out of the box, compared to where he is now, was a bit of a bummer as SmackDown wound towards a close. It was disappointing for A.J. Styles not to be in action again this week on SmackDown live, but he got his shot in against Cena before all was said and done. Cena getting the last laugh sets the stage for some very interesting possibilities heading into SummerSlam, and brings up an interesting topic to ponder over in the next few days: How are the Raw and SmackDown Live superstars going to interact in what, for most, is their first opportunity to be in the same building since the draft? ' ' '