ARIZONA COYOTES

Coyotes’ captain Shane Doan optimistic sale of team will happen

Jan 8, 2013, 1:22 AM | Updated: 1:23 am

Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan is an admitted eternal optimist.

He believed wholeheartedly, even in the darkest hours of the NHL labor talks, that there would be a hockey season.

“I did believe we were going to play again and yet that argument was getting harder and harder to make as it went further along,” Doan told Arizona Sports 620’s Doug & Wolf Monday.

But Doan stayed the course and stuck to his beliefs about the season resuming. Now that a labor agreement has been struck, talk has turned once again to the sale of the Coyotes.

Not surprisingly, Doan prefers to see the sunny side of things on this issue, as well. He doesn’t have any lingering doubts or reservations that the apparent imminent sale of the team will go through.

Glendale officials approved a 20-year lease agreement to keep the Coyotes at Jobing.com Arena and former CEO and president of the San Jose Sharks Greg Jamison and his group of investors are close to announcing the purchase of the team.

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