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Charles Wang is being sued for $10 million for not selling Islanders

Charles Wang

New York Islanders owner Charles Wang addresses the media during a press conference, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 in New York, announcing that the Islanders hockey club will move from Uniondale, N.Y., and play at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center starting in 2015. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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New York Islanders owner Charles Wang is finding out the hard way that trying to sell the team is a big headache.

According to Barbara Ross of the New York Daily News, Andrew Barroway has filed suit against Wang for $10 million for backing out of an agreement to sell the team to him for $420 million.

According to court documents, Barroway alleges the two sides had a “handshake” agreement to purchase the team at that price, but Wang pulled the offer off the table only to return months later asking for $548 million for the team, to which Barroway refused to pay. Wang then told him he sold the team to another party on Aug. 1.

Wait, what?

The source of Wang’s angst and change of mind on the price? The Los Angeles Clippers. From the Daily News:

“Wang was having seller’s remorse,” the court papers say, “because he believed he had agreed to sell the Islanders for a price too low after hearing the unrelated news that a $2 billion bid was place to purchase” the Clippers.

As far as the Islanders being sold, that would be news to everyone because no announcement of a sale has been made and once Barroway and Wang stopped discussing a deal, it was assumed Wang was back to square one.

It seems that even when things are going well over the summer for the Islanders, there’s always something new to pop up and become a distraction. This time it may prove to be a costly one for the owner.

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