Let's be real here, the only, only optimal outcome of the Fenway Sports Group's bid to sell your favorite franchise was going to be sell it to Mario.

Well, that's pretty clearly not happening.

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I reported exclusively on the D.K. Pittsburgh Sports app yesterday that the Penguins, as owned by FSG,

are expected to sign a sales agreement with the Hoffman family of companies.

That's the formal name of the business at hand.

It's actually a collection of businesses.

By some time in October,

my source told me that because of this, that Mario Lemieux, Ron Burkle, and anyone else who had been partaking in their bid to buy the Penguins back has bowed out.

The anticipated sale price that I was told would be $1.5 billion. That's billion with a B.

And that's quite the three-year rise in value for the FSG people, considering that they bought it for

Mario for $900 million. and that was seen as a pretty

decent price at that time. So how to feel about this? That's obviously up to you. But I can

presume pretty safely here that the overwhelming majority of people would have just preferred any arrangement

that had Mario involved. So rather than get into some kind of big dissertation about David

Hoffman, what he's done, or how he owned and operated the Florida Everblades.

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