Tuesday will be a big day in Glendale. I can see it unfolding something like this:

1:29 pm -- Council votes "aye" on the new lease.

1:31 pm -- Council goes into Executive Session. With the public gone, Beasley walks into back room where Hulsizer is waiting and the docs are signed.

1:34 pm -- Beasley gets on the red phone to conference with Bettman and the BOG and MH is approved.

1:40 pm -- The call is placed to sell the bonds.

1:45 pm -- Bonds are all sold.

1:46 pm -- Beasley is back on the red phone and tells Bettman, "The Pack is safe in its Den; I repeat, "the Pack is safe in its Den."

1:48 pm -- Bettman hastily schedules a news conference.

1:50 pm -- Reporters scramble to find out why.

1:51 pm -- David Shoalts gets call from an NHL source, who tells him significant new information has come to light regarding Ice Edge Holdings, and that Commissioner will announce the sales effort in Phoenix is over.

1:53 pm -- Shoalts files an "EXCLUSIVE" that sources confirm sale is dead, Ice Edge the cause, and the Jets are coming back to Winnipeg.

1:55 pm -- Media across Canada pick up the story.

2:01 pm -- A National Holiday is called in Winnipeg. Employers tell employees to take to the streets and celebrate, like Egyptians did.

2:05 pm -- Every bar in Winnipeg is filled. Streets are empty.

2:10 pm -- Canadian television interrupts all broadcasts with BREAKING NEWS, and goes live to New York for the announcement.

2:12 pm -- Bettman steps to the mike and announces Coyotes sale to MH has been completed. Coyotes will remain in Phoenix.

2:12:24 pm -- Deafening silence in the room until a voice in the back shouts, "Mr Beelzebub, Mr Beelzebub, what about Ice Edge? Sources in your office confirmed not 20 minutes ago new information had come to light about Ice Edge and it is the reason the sale effort ended."

2:13 pm -- Bettman announces clients of Ice Edge's Wall Street business bought the bonds.

2:14 pm -- Globe announces Shoalts has been named its new Bureau Chief in Winnipeg.

2:15 pm -- Globe's Winnipeg bureau reports a sale of the Atlanta Thrashers to TNSE is imminent.

2:18 pm -- GWI gets a call the sale is completed. Responds, "Curses, foiled again." Returns to its top case, fighting for direct taxpayer subsidies to private schools owned by business executives and tax-exempt religious organizations.

Book it!

Dear Commissioner,

As you know, health care reform has passed in the United States, which means the world will be ending soon. We don't know when, but we know it's coming. Some of us in Phoenix have a request before that happens, and we know you are the only one to help make sure it happens.

We've been struggling for months, worried we're losing our beloved Phoenix Coyotes. Thanks to you and the league, you fought all summer and spring to see that it did not happen. Yet, as we sit here approaching end-times, there is still no resolution to the Coyotes saga.

We've heard from many who wish us ill and are railing for the Coyotes to leave and return to Canada, that you are behind the Coyotes on-ice success this season. That you've paid off the refs, or given us a favorable schedule, perhaps even getting other teams to lay down. All in an effort to help you sell the team to a local owner and to encourage local fans to return to the arena and begin spending money again on this franchise.

Normally we'd dismiss conspiracy theories like those "crazy," but with time running out we're not going to take any chances.

That said, if any of that is true we ask you do not stop now. Please make sure that at a minimum we take the Pacific Division. If we're all still around when the playoffs start we can at least hang our first "Pacific Division Champion" banner at Jobing.com.

Bettman-willing, we'll have the time to get all the way through the playoffs and hoist Lord Stanley's Cup for the first time in our history. What a beautiful moment that would be.

We thank you for your consideration on this matter and wish we didn't even have to ask. But because some are convinced you are the anti-Christ (you or Obama, it's kind of split depending if you talk to Americans or Canadians) we know it must be you who is behind our rapidly-approaching destruction. As we are going out and you'll have succeeded in destroying our world, we ask you to look deep into your black heart and do one good deed for humanity before it's over.

Regards,

Want to increase ticket sales to Phoenix Coyotes hockey games? Gather your season-ticket holders around, promise them discounts, credits on future purchases, freebies, drop a puck at Center Ice in a pre-game ceremony, or enjoy a free night in a luxury suite. And all you have to do is what you've been all year: working to get butts in the seats!

Guerilla marketing at its finest best describes the Ambassador Club, launched this week by the club. Coyotes President & Chief Operating Officer Douglas Moss said the incentive-based program allows Coyotes Season Ticket Holders to offer discounted tickets to their friends and colleagues by way of a unique Coyotes Web link. "Our Season Ticket Holders are our most passionate fans and this is a way for us to have them play an even greater role in the success of our organization," said Moss in a team press release Tuesday.

Each Season Ticket Holder that becomes a member of the Coyotes Ambassadors Club will be given personalized business cards with a unique Coyotes Web link printed on them. The link will allow friends, family members, colleagues and acquaintances of the member to purchase tickets at a discounted rate, the release said.

Members of the Ambassadors Club will then be rewarded for each ticket "sale" they make. Rewards range from credit to be used toward Playoff tickets for the 2009-10 season or toward a ticket package for the 2010-11 season, upgraded complimentary tickets to future games, a meet-and-greet with Coyotes players, or a night in a luxury suite. The Ambassador who sells the most tickets for the season will have the honor of dropping the ceremonial first puck prior to a Coyotes game. The Ambassadors Club will also have monthly meetings with Coyotes executives to discuss issues related to the Club.

Coyotes blogs and message boards have been filled with ideas on ways to increase ticket sales as the team fights to stay in the Valley. And it looks like the team is listening. The Ambassador Club and the recently launched Coyotes Express, offering ticket and transportation to Coyotes games from select East Valley locations, were borne out of ideas first suggested by fans.

And this STH is already planning on cracking the Top 10 sellers list and shooting for top overall honors. I hope others will get behind this effort as well in the name of friendly competition. Perhaps, we can even get some side action going -- all legal, and above board, of course -- and kick those ideas around with executives when the Club meets.

We all hope this season has a happy ending after the pile crap we've been wading through all these years, and that the Yotes will be here for years to come. And what a great way for all of us to say we had the chance to get truly vested in that effort.

So, STH, time to throw down and get dirty. Come up with some creative ideas to sell some tickets. Have friends who own a business? Have them give you some coupons to hand out to your ticket buyers. I know that's what I'll be asking for from my friends who own a strip club. :-D

Restaurants, bars, retailers, cab companies, hotels, the list is endless. The economy sucks, everyone is hurting, and any business not smart enough to make even the smallest effort to try and get new customers through the door would be foolish.

Have kids in Hockey Leagues, the Scouts, Little League, Soccer? Partner with their leagues, sit their little butts down in front of Safeway, Fry's and Albertson's and offer the discount ticket cards for a $5 donation to raise money for the kids' cause, and you get credit for the ticket sales. Not everyone will buy tickets, but some will and your kids' organization gets a cash boost.

I could go on, but I'd like to hear other ideas. Go hit Twitter, Facebook, your favorite Coyotes or Hockey message boards, and spread the word. Make this a true grassroots effort. And when the season is over, and we've assured a future in Phoenix and, hopefully, enjoyed a playoff appearance, we'll storm the Coyotes offices and demand they throw us a big frickin party! And we invite everyone!

Makeitseven? Troll elsewhere for that 7th team. You're not getting the Coyotes, and we're vesting ourselves in that effort to make sure Doan, Hanzal, Z, Yandle, OEL, Turris, Boedker and Summers stay clad in Coyotes brick-red for years to come, playing home games in Glendale.

Family, friends and fans of the Phoenix Coyotes received the wonderful news tonight that Peter Mueller, missing since early last winter, has safely returned to Jobing.com Aren

Mueller, who had reportedly been sighted many times in the last year, only to have those reports turn out to be incorrect, showed up at tonight's game between the Coyotes and Blackhawk

While early on Mueller tended to get lost in the crowd of players on the ice, causing many to believe this was another false sighting, he suddenly reappeared in the front of the net, by himself, and beat Chicago goalie Christobal Huet, bringing the crowd to its feet. Mueller's goal put the Coyotes up 2-0, and they would go on to win, 3-1.

"We're so happy to have Petey back," a beaming Uncle Shane Doan said after the game. "We never gave up hope he'd be returned to us, and we'll do everything in our power to keep him with us and safe."

Cousin Radim Vrbata, who had his best NHL season in Phoenix in 2007 and who played with the then-rookie Mueller who broke into the league and recorded 54 points, shared Uncle Shane's excitement. "I missed Peter since my return this year and kept hoping he'd return. Watching him tonight was like a flashback to two years ago when he was an up-and-coming star in this league. It's all up from here"

Mueller had few words to say after the game, other than how happy he was to be home. The last year has been quite an ordeal, he said, but he has a sense of renewed hope after tonight that he'll be able to recapture the magic that was his rookie season.

Mueller will join his teammates for the short trip to Anaheim for a Saturday game with the Ducks.