Bonsai Tree
Turning a new leaf
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It was clearly in both Glendale and Phoenix interests to prevent a 3rd 20,000 seat arena from being built. I don’t think that the goal was to kill the Coyotes. That was just a consequence, pleasant as it might have been, to preventing a 3rd arena.The other thing. Glendale's gambit worked. I believe they hoped to kill the team and force a relocation by kicking them out before there were any viable options. If another arena had been built they would have been in big big trouble with a very massive liability that got little use. Westgate may have been damaged significantly too.