CXLIX - FINAL thoughts on the Arizona Coyotes

[TheLegend]

We doing the chicken or the egg thing again?

Making dog food.

 

[Voight]

I mean, yes and no. It's over, the Coyotes are finally dead after being strung around for over a decade. The franchise didn't just relocate it has been technically disbanded, and is the first franchise to go properly defunct in some 50-odd years. This saga will be talked about until the end of time because the way it unfolded was genuinely a fascinating disasterpiece of incompetence. To that end, this is a bait and switch because I don't think the conversation should end about this non-existent team, and the prospect of a new expansion franchise. On the other, Coyotes relocation talk is finally over.

I wouldn't call them properly defunct, it's more of a Cleveland Browns type of thing for now.

 

[Headshot77]

I wouldn't call them properly defunct, it's more of a Cleveland Browns type of thing for now.

Didn't Meurelo already give up though? He set his sights on the AHL relocating to Reno.

 

[Boris Zubov]

Matthews, McDavid, or Eichel would've put the team on the map in AZ. With ownership that couldn't afford to pay for them and support pieces, it likely would've still flailed true.

What I am confident of though and folks don't have to agree with me and I don't care but if Bill Foley (or a similar type) had owned the Coyotes, and setup an arena in Phoenix the way he (and others) did in Vegas and if he ran the team in Phoenix the way he did in Vegas. I am confident the Coyotes would've been successful. It was a good enough market that competent ownership would've had success.

So here's a what-if conundrum....What if Foley owned the team & they started in Glendale? Is the team viable & profitable?

 

[TheLegend]

So here's a what-if conundrum....What if Foley owned the team & they started in Glendale? Is the team viable & profitable?

Rumor was Foley might have looked into Arizona and moved them to Vegas but preferred to build from the ground up.

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Glendale doesn’t work unless you own Westgate and the Coyotes. And neither were in great shape at the time. Bob Parsons ended up getting Westgate dirt cheap but wasn’t interested in being a pro franchise owner.