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Easier to dogpile on Meruelo than to take a long look at the 20 years worth ineptitude by all the parties involved (including the NHL) that cratered not only just the franchise, but the entire market itself.
You know what, though? Meruelo is the guy that got the Coyotes relocated. Gary Bettman moved heaven and earth to keep this team here even when he probably shouldn't have (see: Ice Clowns), and he worked absolute miracles in the process... but Alex Meruelo did in 5 years what not even a total bankruptcy, attempted coup, and league ownership couldn't over the preceding 15... he salted the earth for NHL hockey in Arizona.
So f*** it, I'm gonna dogpile on that shifty-eyed, self-absorbed Cuban bastard until he either has a come-to-Jesus moment in his life or he leaves the state and goes back to his comfy Nevada mafia.
If people are going to pine over a guy like Ryan Smith and wonder why the Coyotes couldn’t have an owner like him you better go back and realize Bill Foley was offered the Coyotes once. And after just one look decided he was better off going to Vegas and starting from scratch.
Yeah, the value of a fresh start, clean slate, what have you is tremendous.
Which is why it's so f***ing PERFECT for us Coyotes fans that our "clean slate," if it happens, is going to be the same song, different verse with that prick and his failson.