Oh yeah, I just love a Monday morning like this, well a Saturday afternoon actually when I am writing this.
So everyone remembers how Michael Burks pulled the plug on his WSHL team, the Missoula Maulers a few weeks ago right?
A little refresher for ya in case you aren’t up to speed…..
See the Maulers and Burks were really successful. They won a lot, and they did great with fans, community service and were everything you want a junior team to be in it community. They really were a model franchise.
Burks himself dumped a ton of money into the arena. An arena he paid rent in, an arena he didn’t own, an arena he made better for everyone by using his own personal money to improve.
See but this arena, is run by the Missoula Area Youth Hockey Association (MAYHA). Yeah, and anyone in the business knows that there is no such thing as a successful run arena when a youth association runs it. Insert any variation of the phrase “shit show” and you get what I mean.
See the dumbasses in MAYHA thought they could just screw Burks with his ice time and jack his rent. You know, kind of like take a dump in his bowl of cereal in the morning and tell him its just chocolate sprinkles! And they expected him to just take it. Yep, bend over, thanks for your investment and support, and now we would like to help you with this stick up your behind!
So, what does Burks do? Like any smart business man he tells them to get Trucked. He folds the team.
See, all the while there were back room deals going down to bring in a new league with new ownership. Yeah, there were deals in the works even before WSHL commissioner met with the idiots running MAYHA.
Bang! All of a sudden a new team is approved within days, and a schedule is done and everything is perfect for MAYHA and the new owners of the new team!
Oh shit man, well not so fast. See everything needed for the team was still owned by Michael Burks. Yeah, ooooops shit, kinda forgot about that one huh dummies?
What does the Missoula arena look like now?
Oh shit! Cant have a junior game without bleachers and seating now can you folks!!!! LMFAO Is this not priceless!!!
Seriously, did these morons think they could just keep shit they didn’t pay for? Did they think Burks was going to just leave it there for a new team and new league? Did they think they could just run over this local business man and get away with it?
Now that’s what I call Karma!
Boom!!! Gone in an instant are the bleachers, sound system and locker room improvements he installed at the Missoula rink.
All too often we hear about teams screwing arenas out of money. But just as often arenas screw team owners for better deals. Well, this is just freakin priceless, and Missoula got exactly what they deserve. This is what happens when amateurs try to deal with hockey and they shouldn’t.
What else do amateurs do? They try to paint the former owner as a bad guy publicly when it is them that are at fault!
In a press release from Mr. Burks;
“It is also worth noting that Mr. Burks and the Maulers leave the Rink with hundreds of thousands of dollars in improvements including a concrete floor, concessions area, 3 locker rooms, a heating system, and the entire upstairs. The fact is this: Every item removed from the Rink on Saturday, June 25th , was agreed to by the Rink with the exception of the bleachers. It is false and misleading for the Rink to now claim their “impression that the improvements . . . were a donation.”
“Further, their requests for money indicate that they “don’t have the money to do this.” However, according Missoula Area Youth Hockey Association’s board meeting minutes from November 9, 2015, available online at Glacier Ice Rink’s website, the board had $465,000 in the bank as of the end of October, 2015. Further, the December, 2015 minutes reflect income greater and costs lower than the approved budget. Mr. Burks and Missoula Maulers, Inc. wish the Rink all the best with respect to its current fundraising efforts. However, when asking for contributions of Missoulians’ hard-earned money, it is important that the Rink provide all the facts. Unfortunately, for reasons that remain unclear, the Rink instead chose to provide half-truths and misinformation.”
Now, I hope the new team enjoys the shit box they can play in now, or finds the money, roughly two hundred thousand bucks to replace what is gone before the season starts. Oh yeah, and the season starts in the next sixty days! Good luck dummies. Probably shouldn’t have gotten so greedy with the hand that fead you all those years.
On another note, Missoula just happens to be having a cupcake sale and fundraiser next week to help raise the money to replace what the arena managers had but screwed up. Yep, only need to sell about two hundred thousand cupcakes at a buck apiece. MMMMMMMMM I hope you bitches like your frosting sweet!
David Wagner – The Angel Of Death – For Those Who Live Stupidly I salute You
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