Report: KC’s elite hot for some NHL action

As the Sprint Center gradually loses its new arena smell, the odds of Kansas City landing an NHL or NBA team seem more remote. But one booster is making sure that KC at least looks poised to snatch up the next hockey team willing to relocate.

A weekly newspaper in Columbus, Ohio, The Other Paper, ran a story earlier this month suggesting that Kansas City was “the dame at the end of the bar … making eyes at” the Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL. Delighted with the metaphor, the writer of the story went on to compare the Sprint Center to womanly parts in need of satisfaction. Kansas City “hasn’t had a man — let’s call him an anchor tenant — in her Sprint Center since she built it. You don’t think she’s feeling desperate?”

And just where did The Other Paper get the idea that Kansas City was so horny? Paul McGannon, president of NHL 21, which aspires to make Kansas City a viable site for an NHL franchise.