It is very curious that on the very same day the NHL bids on the Coyotes that Reinsdorf backs out of the same.And on the very same day that Reinsdorf via the NHL was to provide Moyes a binding letter of intent to purchase the team from him, that Moyes beats them both to it and pushed the team into bankruptcy court in the first place.It seems to me that the Moyes-NHL-Reinsdorf connection are alot closer linked than whatever the media has dug up so far.Have we all been OFFside in thinking that these groups have been rivals reaching for the Coyotes?If not, then leaks are commonplace between the parties but kept from the media and hockey fans alike.Yesterday’s news confirmed many suspicions on how this auction is to conclude. Should the NHL's bid be more than Balsillie's then it makes it easy for the court to rule in the NHL's favour as no remaining roadblocks threaten to hold up that cash going to the creditors in short order. If the NHL bid is less than Jim Balsillie’s then the NHL has put the court into a very difficult decision. And you can bet that the court will take that into account when making a ruling.This scenario would show to the world that the NHL itself values one of its 30 member clubs less than the free market system does. Not exactly a great position to be found in for the NHL. Since we have not heard a triumphant bid price from the NHL, we can assume that they "lowballed" the court with their bid.Say the NHL ends up with the team, somehow. Clearly, the City of Glendale won't budge on substantial bailout of losses. Nor should they. This negative response was reportedly what led to Reinsdorf's bid being pulled. So who is going to buy and keep the team there? Even if the team was sold to them for $1? After all the free publicity that this story has generated, any interested owner would have come out of the woodwork by now. Even the NHL was trying to prod ownership bids to come forward during this process and clearly by their silence they failed to ride to the NHL's rescue. Gary Bettman's email shows how true it was and still is: that it will be hard to find an owner excited to buy a team that loses $40 million a year.Based on assumption that the NHL gets the team and this lack of forthcoming owner to hold the team in Arizona, the team will play this season schedule (lame duck as it is and has been now for several months) and then it will move next spring.And if you believe Gary Bettman's April 4th email, as negative as it was for the NHL's own face-saving, then you have to conclude that Winnipeg leads consideration as Plan B.No doubt there will be other cities involved should relocation be considered by the NHL. Winnipeg and Houston are neck and neck for the lead, followed by Portland then Quebec and Seattle. Here is a summary of the NHL's options for quick relocation and how they stack up against each other!http://www.manitobamythbusters.com/facts_figures/Market%20Analysis%20Quickest%20Reloc.pdf more »