Trent Birt, the club’s vice-president of operations, emerged from a closed-door meeting with investors shortly after 7 p.m. to announce a tentative agreement had been reached.
"The consortium we’ve been working on for the last 10 or so days just got the deal done,” Birt said. “We worked around the clock until now to get the deal done.”
The makeup of the new group was not released.
The paper also reports that the Savards are not part of
the new ownership group nor have they discussed the name change to Islanders.
A huge thanks to the many people that stepped up to keep this franchise on PEI! Quite an ownership has putcommunity & hockey first!
— Trent Birt (@TrentBirt) April 26, 2013
We must remember the Savard's brought this team to PEI. I can't say how supportive Serge Sr was the last 2 weeks in helping make this happen
— Trent Birt (@TrentBirt) April 26, 2013
This is great news for PEI hockey fans, obviously, but also great news for everyone in the Maritime Division. The Rocket moving to Quebec would have screwed up the divisional format and schedule.
There were reports that if the team could not be sold locally,
it would have been bought and moved to Sorel-Tracy, Que.
Well done, PEI. Well done. We’ll see you in the
pre-season.
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