It was the T-shirt heard around the World Wide Web.

Great Wolf Lodge Mashantucket will now open on Friday, May 9, the resort's website said. The 92,000-square-foot park next to Foxwoods was previously anticipating to welcome guests on Friday, May 23.

Where six months ago, the casino operator looked like a company struggling with regulatory issues and profit problems; today, it’s running out of cash to keep the lights on and is buried under debt.