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The latest chapter of the ongoing saga between the Coyotes and the City of Glendale is set to unfold tonight. And like many before it, theres a possibility it could also be the final chapter. On the voting agenda tonight is a proposed lease on Jobing.com Arena with Renaissance Sports & Entertainment, which has an agreement in place to buy the NHL team. Watch the vote proceedings on TSN.ca NOW. The lease is worth a total of $225 million over 15 years, but what appears to be the contentious issue for Glendale are potential costs to the City, which already fronted $25 million to keep the Coyotes in town over the past two years. According to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly will attend the meeting. Dreger added that the NHL is hopeful that the deal will get approved, perhaps moreso than it was just two days ago. But if the deal isnt approved, the NHL will almost certainly relocate the franchise. "I dont want to be more specific than Im going to be, but if the council doesnt approve it so this transaction can close, I dont think the Coyotes will be playing there anymore," Bettman said at the NHLs recent Board of Governors meeting. A relocation announcement could take some time. According to Dreger, a list of possible new homes for the franchise including Seattle, Quebec City and Kansas City. Unresolved concerns about the deal were outlined in a memo released by the City of Glendale last week, including issues over the city bearing all the risk in the deal if Renaissances plan fails and a $15 million management fee to RSE that could end up costing the city more than the projected annual cost of $6 million (should other projections not be met). Included in the deal are a pair of out-clauses for Renaissance, including one that kicks in at the five-year mark and one if their cumulative losses should hit the $50 million mark. The deal does not include an out-clause for the City of Glendale. For the Coyotes, tonights meeting is just the latest hurdle in a long and drawn out fight to stay in Arizona. The team filed for bankruptcy in 2009, setting off a wave of potential ownership scenarios. The league took control of the franchise from former owner Jerry Moyes and the first potential owner to come forward was former Research in Motion CEO Jim Balsillie. While he had the funds to back an ownership bid, his offer hinged on his ability to relocate the team to Southern Ontario. With the league reluctant to meet his demands, the Coyotes soldiered on in the desert. Next up was Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf and a rival bid from the Ice Edge Holdings group, but a consensus could not be reached between the league and the city on which deal to back and both eventually fell through. A push to repatriate the franchise to its prior home in Winnipeg emerged in 2011 while the NHL attempted to sell the team to Matthew Hulsizer. The league backed that deal, but the Goldwater Institute – a local advocacy group – quashed a potential deal due to concerns over cost to the city. Winnipegs hunger for hockey was rewarded with the relocation of the Atlanta Thrashers two summers ago. A bid to sell the team to former San Jose Sharks CEO Greg Jamison fell through in January after almost two years of negotiations and tentative agreements, which opened the door for Renaissance, who reached an agreement with the NHL in late May. William Carrier Golden Knights Jersey . Watching them over the past year - and in some cases, two years - has given us a starting point for this seasons Craigs List. Jonathan Marchessault Jersey . Torres tells Spanish daily AS "in football you never know where you will be inside one month. 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The Ottawa Senators backup goalie shut the door the rest of the way and ended a career oh-fer in shootouts. "Hopefully, this will break a curse," Lehner said after Kyle Turris scored the deciding goal in the fifth round for a 5-4 Senators victory Tuesday night. "I know I can be good at it. Ive had a few bad ones in the beginning that snowballed and got in my head." Lehner had been 0-6 in shootouts, allowing 12 goals on 24 shots. It was 14 goals on 26 attempts after T.J. Oshie and Alexander Steen scored for St. Louis, but Lehner regrouped to stop Vladimir Tarasenko, Kevin Shattenkirk and Maxim Lapierre. Mika Zibanejad and Stephane Da Costa also scored in the tiebreaker for Ottawa. Blues goalie Jaroslav Halak had been 4-1 in shootouts, allowing just three goals on 16 shots. "To have the type of response we had in the third, to tie it up, to get the two points in a tough building against a very good team is huge," Turris said. "Robbie played unreal. Stood on his head." Oshie had a goal and an assist in regulation for the Blues, who lost at home to an Eastern Conference opponent for the first time in 10 games this season. St. Louis had a season-high 50 shots but squandered a two-goal cushion in the third period and missed two chances to close it out in the shootout. The Blues were 0 for 7 on the power play. St. Louis gave up a 2-1 lead in its last game at Nashville, then won in a shootout. "Were probably taking a step the wrong way when weve got the game in good hands," coach Ken Hitchcock said. "Were turning pretty comfortable games into track meets." Jason Spezza had his third three-point game of the season and capped a three-goal flurry in a span of 2:35 that gave Ottawa a 4-3 lead midway through the third. Erik Karlsson had a goal and an assist to give him 53 points, best among NHL defencemen. Turris also scored a goal. Blues defenceman Jordan Leopold tied it at 11:08 with his first of the season on an odd-angled shot that banged off Lehner. The attendance of 14,758 was more than 4,000 shy of capacity at the Scottrade Center, the crowd held down by a snowstorm that left roadways clogged. The Blues also sset a season best with 23 shots in a two-goal second period, seemingly taking control with a 3-1 lead despite coming up empty with more than 2 minutes of a two-man advantage.dddddddddddd "I think theres things weve got to clean up," Oshie said. "I dont think weve got to get too down on ourselves. "The guys that made the mistakes, they know that they made them. Well clean them up. Were going to be fine." The puck got lodged in the netting on Oshies goal that made it 3-2, a score that went unannounced until after Oshie pointed out the pucks location and then the play was reviewed. "It was still hanging there and people started shovelling the ice and I wanted to argue my case," Oshie said. "I knew it was in." Ottawa beat Jaroslav Halak for three goals in a span of four shots in the third, with Milan Michalek and Turris scoring. The Senators bounced back from a 2-1 overtime loss at Pittsburgh a night earlier. Besides scoring his first goal in 38 games with St. Louis over two seasons, Leopold also saved one in the second period. Karlssons shot trickled between Halaks pads and was on the goal line and still sliding when the defenceman swatted it away. The game began with the promise of fisticuffs from the Blues as retribution for an elbow to the head by Ottawas Zack Smith that was blamed for the concussion that sidelined Steen for 11 games in late December. Rugged Ryan Reaves was picked to take the opening faceoff for the Blues, presumably set to square off with Smith, but both players were whistled for minor unsportsmanlike conduct penalties in the opening minute and both teams settled down. Turris tied it on a pass that deflected off the skate of a Blues player at 7:02, and Spezza capitalized when the Blues failed to clear the puck out of the zone and beat Halak with a high drive that ticked off the stick of a defenceman for his 15th goal of the season and a 4-3 lead. NOTES: The Blues had outscored Eastern Conference foes 43-13 while going 9-0 to start the season. ... Leopold has six points in 22 games this season. ... Ottawa D Chris Phillips (lower body) missed his fifth straight game. ... Blues backup goalie Brian Elliott started for Ottawa in a 5-2 loss the last time the Senators played in St. Louis on Nov. 19, 2010. ' ' '