Coyotes ASU temporary visiting team’s locker room and training area

[D Wakaluk]

 

[Leafidelity]

What does the Coyotes' locker room look like?

I bet it's also the worst in the league.

Poor Jack McBain doesnt even get a hook lol

 

[GMR]

LOL. I think I prefer the visitors' room.

 

[Koivu11]

Visitors dressing room ready to go!

 

[Jets]

Poor Jack McBain doesnt even get a hook lol

The bench that would normally be about 1 goalie spot, is a spot for 2 goalies and a player. That's brutal. It's like highschool hockey tryouts when they have 2-3 rooms for 60 guys.

 

[jgimp]

I love it, this is awesome. Sorry Yotes fans, you deserve so much better. f*** you Bettman.

 

[Rubi]

Hey it could be a lot worse and its only 4 games. When the Flames moved to Calgary from Atlanta in 1980 they played their first 3 seasons in the ancient rinky dink 6500 seat Stampede Corral which was built in 1950. That whole building is tiny and so are the dressing rooms. Spartan too. Mountain out of a mole hill folks... mountain out of a mole hill.

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[Mortimer Snerd]

There is a difference between starting on the road and never playing at home. The Isles got to play 41 games at home.

It's not a good look for sure. My guess is that had they been moved temporarily to another area (Houston as an example), they probably felt they would lose much of their core fanbase and never recover. Things are bad enough now.

Personally, I don't want to see Arizona move. I would rather have hockey everywhere, even if it's a tough sell. LA was a tough sell for a long time. I really don't care too much that my team is helping to support them. My team is still spending to the cap, so it's the owners who are taking a bit of a shave and I'm OK with that.

Hopefully, with the new arena, they can get things going. If not, I think they're at the end of their life and the team will be gone.

Well sure - but I never suggested that they never play at home. Just that they should have stayed on the road for 4 more games so that the renovations to Mullet Arena could be completed.

Them playing in a 5,000 seat arena, losing money year after year, being unable to get a suitable arena after more than 25 years, etc, etc, are all different issues.

 

[TheLegend]

I love it, this is awesome. Sorry Yotes fans, you deserve so much better. f*** you Bettman.

Hell we’re giving him a statue at the new arena if it gets approved.

 

[TheLegend]

Poor Jack McBain doesnt even get a hook lol

Rookie initiation.

 

[Charlie Conway]

Teams only collect direct jersey sales revenue if a team owned entity is selling the jerseys. E.g. a team shop in the arena. The team is still paying the usual cost of sales for employees, product, storefront, insurance, etc to sell those jerseys.

Licensing revenue from Adidas to manufacture jerseys and other products is split equally among all 32 teams regardless of total jerseys sold per team. I’d be surprised if any team is earning more on direct jersey sales than their share of the licensing rights.

I figured as much. I was just responding to a user who was suggesting the NHL will sell more $$$ worth of McDavid jerseys than Arizona will earn from their gate.

Hyperbole, obviously, but it made me curious.

 

[Silencio]

Live look at the visitor's dressing room

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

Get rid of this team

Tired of seeing your team lose to them, right?

 

[Half Clapper]

It is 4 games....People are overreacting to this big time.

 

[Empoleon8771]

The locker rooms look bush league but the arena does look amazing.

 

[Stephen]

Think of it as a good recruitment strategy by the Arizona Coyotes.

"If you sign with us you'll never have to use these visitors dressing 'rooms.'"

 

[htpwn]

Doing anything more permanent than this would probably be a waste, TBH. It is indeed embarassing for the league, but only for four games.

The bigger problem is that an NHL team is going to playing in an arena smaller than a modern CHL rink. But it is quite clear that the Yotes are Gary's pet project, so it is what it is.

 

[I Hart Conor Garland]

Well done, a thread actually much more embarrassing than it’s supposedly mortifying subject matter.

 

[Rubi]

Just finished looking at the Coyotes schedule. Those poor bastards are on the road for nearly all of October and November and the first week of December with the exception of 4 game stretch played in late Oct/early November. Oof.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Calgary: we have the worst dressing room.
Arizona: hold my beer.

 

[pbgoalie]

Are the coyotes doing fashion shows yet?

 

[Chet Manley]

Are the coyotes doing fashion shows yet?

This would make a really good on ice chirp.

 

[TheLegend]

Just finished looking at the Coyotes schedule. Those poor bastards are on the road for nearly all of October and November and the first week of December with the exception of 4 game stretch played in late Oct/early November. Oof.

14 game road trip to be exact.

 

[MikeyMike01]

By itself, this is fine as a temporary solution.

In combination with the extremely long list of problems with this franchise… it’s long past time to move the team.

 

[Soundwave]

That's what I still don't understand......there weren't any full-size arenas in neighbouring states that could play babysitter at least until Tempe was ready - if that ever happens, anyway?

The Suns ownership group didn't want to step up and turn their arena in to a two-sport facility, again on just a temporary basis while the Coyotes figure things out?

The NHL should've stepped in here and negotiated a deal with the Phoenix Suns arena (don't know what it's called now but I know it used to be America West Arena).

This is just ... I mean, look first world problems and all that, but it's embarrassing, lol.