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“We will own a small piece of an NHL team because I’m not capable of writing whatever cheque the [NHL] owners may or may not want,” Leiweke told Prime Time Sports Tuesday. “So what we are doing is my company is putting in half the money on the arena but my company can’t own a hockey team. We had to go find an owner, or in this case two, that were prepared to write that cheque and in order to make sure that we were aligned we gave them half of the interest in the arena.”

Oak View Group is in charge of the renovations, but that company will not be the sole owners of an NHL franchise should that come to fruition. The company’s CEO, Tim Leiweke, announced earlier in the summer that film and television producer Jerry Bruckheimer plus financier David Bonderman were partnering with Oak View Group with the primary task of acquiring an NHL franchise.