by Larry Leavitt

DALY CITY–San Francisco Bulls CEO Angel Batinovich said that the Bulls have requested additonal time to make the transfer of team ownership complete. Bulls current owner and head coach Pat Curcio is in Philadelphia for league meetings putting the final touches on an agreement with the new owners and Batinovich said that the team is going to play it’s regularly scheduled games at the Cow Palace, they are expected back for the Thursday January 30th game.

The league accepted and has granted the team’s request for extra time to get the negotiations in place for the new ownership group. The league has set up the timeline and requesting that Curcio and the team get it done and that they will support the Bulls in the transfer as far as they can.

Meanwhile the Bulls do not plan on canceling any of the scheduled games which are slated for January 30 and 31st and progress moving forward is always good and it’s better than coming out saying we’ve folded were out and were done. There’s hope and hope is what you need right now and you take what you can get.

The main thing is the venue they need to figure out what their going to do whether they renegoiate the contract with the existing venue at the Cow Palace or whether they go to Oakland or Fresno which was stated earlier. Get that fixed figure out and where your going to play and go on from there. If it’s a new ownership group if they have people in place we don’t even know who these people are.

If they have people in place and they want to change things they will if they don’t have people in place and their just financial backers and they slowly want to move into and they’ll probably keep the status quo and go with what they’ve got. It all depends on who this ownership group is.

I can speak from what I would do and if this was my team that was in financial hardship I’d work out a deal where I’m still involved. It’s heart and soul it’s a dream that Curcio had and I can’t imagine he’s going to sell it all off, he could but then if you’ve got your heart and soul in something you still want to be a part of it if you can.

Curcio can still be a partial owner or a partial investor and if that’s where it is that’s up to the group of investors on how they want to run the front office and how they want the coaching staff to work. If they already have hockey history, if the investors have other venues or other hockey interests and they already have some staff they could already intergrate in that it might happen. One thing we do know there will be Bulls hockey at the Cow Palace next week Thursday night.

Larry Leavitt does Pro Hockey commentary each week for Sportstalk radio