Ryan Reynolds reportedly preparing to bid for Canadian ice hockey team – in deal worth more than $1bn | Ents & Arts News

After taking Wrexham FC to new heights, it seems Ryan Reynolds could have a brand new sporting enterprise on the horizon – this time in Canada.

The Deadpool star, alongside his enterprise accomplice and It is All the time Sunny In Philadelphia actor Rob McElhenney, took over the Welsh soccer membership final 12 months, and got it promoted to the Football League after a 15-year absence at their first time of asking.

However now, based on the Ottawa Solar, Reynolds, alongside different enterprise magnates, has joined a bunch with the intention of shopping for the Ottawa Senators, a Nationwide Hockey League (NHL) franchise within the metropolis.

The membership’s former proprietor, Eugene Melnyk, handed away in March 2022, along with his property trying to promote up.

If the Remington Group, which incorporates Reynolds, goes via, it’s set to make the hockey staff the primary within the high league to be value greater than $1bn (£800m).

The Ottawa Solar reported, that if Reynolds’ bid is the winner, he would construct a brand new stadium for the staff within the metropolis’s downtown space, which might additionally embody a brand new leisure district round it, whereas redeveloping the positioning the place its present stadium is.

The group has reportedly already met with officers to debate the ins and outs of the membership, with the paper including the actor is eager to return to a deal rapidly.

Different bidders embody actor and former wrestler Dwayne Johnson and movie producer Neko Sparks, who’ve additionally reportedly joined as much as entrance a bid to the tune of $950m within the first spherical of bidding.

Ought to they achieve success, it might make the staff the primary within the NHL to be owned by a black individual.

Each teams, amongst others, are anticipated to be a part of the ultimate group of bidders.

Sky Information has reached out to Reynolds’ reps for remark.

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‘It’s a must to… develop that group’

Reynolds, a Vancouver native, can be trying to construct on the success he has seen with Wrexham FC.

Talking to MSNBC, Sky’s US accomplice community, final week, Reynolds stated: “I wasn’t an professional in, I am going to name it soccer for our American viewers, however I’ve adopted it as soccer and rightfully so.

“It’s a must to go hand-in-hand, group and membership.

“The factor I believe we did do effectively with Wrexham FC is… We do not have a big moat round us of publicists, attorneys and different personnel. We’re fairly accessible and accountable to each the group and the membership.

“If you are going to develop the membership, you must be in tandem and have the ability to develop that group.”

Reynolds and McElhenney set Wrexham followers’ pulses racing within the week once they suggested the club could signal the newly retired Gareth Bale – Wales’ talismanic former captain.

Bale, nevertheless, stated the prospect was unlikely.