NHL Board of Governors approves sale of Coyotes and relocation to Salt Lake City (Mod warning post #157)
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Houston and Atlanta must have their checkbooks ready for the Yotes to sell for $1.2b. It’s a nonsense number for that team.
Viqsi
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The only times comments like that come up for .ca teams is when folks are bagging on Winnipeg (or very occasionally Edmonton), and those come from fans on both sides of the border.
hi
Sell sell sell
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Bandit
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"even if it means starting next season without new nickname..." doesn't seem like starting off on the right foot.
Cool for Utah, sucks for the fans of the Coyotes.
Cool for Utah, sucks for the fans of the Coyotes.
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NHL doing to Meruelo the equivalent of Ricky paying Mr. Lahey $100 to **** off.
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Golden_Jet
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Huh, Yotes are off to Utah,
Hopefully Arizona can get a rink built in the next 5 years.
robertmac43
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Sad for the Yotes, they deserved better. I'm really curious to see the branding of this new team though.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I understand the condolences to the fans, including myself, thanks, but the reality of it is is we deserved this long ago. We were given more chances than any other major sports franchise history.
This shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. It should have been done a long time ago. I am very thankful for the time we were able to have the team but no one in their right mind should have been given this many chances.
From one shitty ownership group to another, to unpaid bills, horrible marketing and coverage of the team. The yotes were the red headed stepchild in Arizona when it came to sports. There was no media support and certainly no local political support.
Arizona is a horrendous sports state. Bandwagon as it gets.
Here’s to a new start for this franchise in hopes to shed the dead skin of how bad it’s been for 25 years. Best of luck in Utah. I’ll still be apart of it.
I’ve tried to defend this group for a while now but it’s time to admit we absolutely deserve this, no fault to the fans but you can only be given so many chances.
This shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. It should have been done a long time ago. I am very thankful for the time we were able to have the team but no one in their right mind should have been given this many chances.
From one shitty ownership group to another, to unpaid bills, horrible marketing and coverage of the team. The yotes were the red headed stepchild in Arizona when it came to sports. There was no media support and certainly no local political support.
Arizona is a horrendous sports state. Bandwagon as it gets.
Here’s to a new start for this franchise in hopes to shed the dead skin of how bad it’s been for 25 years. Best of luck in Utah. I’ll still be apart of it.
I’ve tried to defend this group for a while now but it’s time to admit we absolutely deserve this, no fault to the fans but you can only be given so many chances.
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Too close to "Golden Knights" who will probably become a close rival I'd imagine.
Probably shorten it to. Utah Eagles. For now, they're the Utah Something
OurlordAndSaviorKuch
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Think we all knew it would be approved, But the way this has happened and been handled has been beyond awful.
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Utah Buzz. Has a tie to the region and would confuse the hell out of everyone.
SI90
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Depends on the expansion strategy you use. I’d go the George McPhee route over the Ron Francis route.
Coyotes have a lot of young prospects and good young players. Now they will have an arena and be situated in Utah so they can build around the team. There’s no more questions up in the air.
I wouldn’t mind starting with the current coyotes.
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Honestly I think Utah should just be treated as the continuation of Arizona/Winnipeg. It's the same players and management, simply moving to a different city with different owners. There's a paper transaction taking place, but a future Arizona team is just going to be an entirely new team that happens to have been formed under the same license to operate (the "franchise").
The "records" staying with the inactive Arizona franchise is just nonsense, in my opinion. Records are just statistical accomplishments that we subsequently give context and meaning to. As far as I'm concerned, nobody "owns" them. You can't sell them - if Hockey Reference wants to keep continuity from Arizona to Utah, nothing is stopping them. I feel the same way about suggestions that Winnipeg or Cleveland or whoever should retain their records from previous teams - that's just nonsense that appeals to some people.
The actual intellectual property - the trademarks and logos and uniforms - is of course different. But as far as I'm concerned, it's the same team and will remain so, even if (a very big "if") the Arizona Coyotes come back in 2028 or 29.
They have nobody to blame but themselves. The NHL tried everything conceivably possible and then some to keep the team there.
Doesn't suck any less for Yotes fans but the franchise made their own bed and now it gets to sleep in another one.
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thekernel
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Having no name is lame. It's been a big pitfall to the PWHL's marketing, that everyone has been repping the same logo without any localized identity.
With Pierre Dorion as GM. "We are a......team, a hockey team, The Utah Hockey Team"
