The Arizona Coyotes left Shane Doan’s retirement banner in a dumpster in Gila River Arena

[robertmac43]

To what purpose? So the fans could boo him? To say "thank you Arizona fans?" I don't understand why he had to show up really.

You own the team. You have spent weeks creating renderings and material for the new arena. The bid for said land is still happening. I think for his own perception within the league it would have made sense for him to show up.

In regards to the fans it’s a different story. Obviously there is less of a need for him to make the appearance there.

 

[Kranix]

And Shane stayed loyal to the Coyotes all those years. His banner is in a dumpster and the team is gone. What a loser.

 

[HolyGhost]

this is an example of the ENTIRE problem with the organization going back several owners. There was a website run for awhile that listed all the things the organization had done. Regardless of who owned them. They did and said stupid stuff

 

[barkovcanfinnish]

And people wonder why the Coyotes have had problems. They’ve had decades of ownership who treated their hockey team and fanbase like a doormat. If Shane Doan’s banner ending up in the trash isn’t perfect symbolism of this I don’t know what is.

 

[Ezekial]

Hold up.

How did this dude find it in the dumpster?

My cousin found and sold thousands of dollars worth of golf clubs and sports stuff in and around a dumpster in the back of a Dick's after it went out of business.

 

[GMR]

What did they do with Pronger and Datsyuk's banners?

 

[JMCx4]

My cousin found and sold thousands of dollars worth of golf clubs and sports stuff in and around a dumpster in the back of a Dick's after it went out of business.

Your cousin should work for the NHL.

 

[Alberta Yote]

It wasn't in a dumpster, it was in storage. Doesn't change the fact that this classless ownership group made no effort to retrieve it.

 

[OTownCat]

What's worse...dumpster/storage or being used as drip clothes?

• Pennants proclaiming National Hockey League championships, Stanley Cup victories and other triumphs used to hang from the rafters of Maple Leaf Gardens. But they were taken down (on the premise that they were obstructing some customers' views). In 1969, painters doing over the Gardens' television booth used (perhaps unknowingly) a dozen or more of these banners to catch paint drips. Commented former Leafs' captain Syl Apps, "I would think that the pennants could have been put to better use than that. We worked awfully hard to get them. I'm rather shocked that they mean so little."

 

[kook10]

Any reasonable and responsible employee would have found another job by now, so I don't think it is a big surprise that there would be some relatively big things overlooked.

 

[Frank Drebin]

seems like a very nice guy

 

[Grasshopperking]

This owner is a case study on how culture trickles down. This loser couldn't care less about this team and they ended their tenure in Arizona playing at a college level arena. Pathetic. I'm happy they're moving, sad for the fans, but it's better for everyone

 

[Skidooboy]

It sounds like it was packed away in a box with some other stuff, and then the boxes were thrown out.

Not a great look, but somewhat understandable when you think about the logistics of clearing out an entire arena’s worth of stuff.

no...that is "handle with care" priority one material...losing it in a bunch of moving boxes is not acceptable.

 

[Moose Head]

This owner is a case study on how culture trickles down. This loser couldn't care less about this team and they ended their tenure in Arizona playing at a college level arena. Pathetic. I'm happy they're moving, sad for the fans, but it's better for everyone

Good for everyone except GMs trying to dump dead cap space

 

[Skidooboy]

What's worse...dumpster/storage or being used as drip clothes?

• Pennants proclaiming National Hockey League championships, Stanley Cup victories and other triumphs used to hang from the rafters of Maple Leaf Gardens. But they were taken down (on the premise that they were obstructing some customers' views). In 1969, painters doing over the Gardens' television booth used (perhaps unknowingly) a dozen or more of these banners to catch paint drips. Commented former Leafs' captain Syl Apps, "I would think that the pennants could have been put to better use than that. We worked awfully hard to get them. I'm rather shocked that they mean so little."

I have questions about this story.....

1.was it old mouldy banners that were replaced with new ones...because the leafs have a lot of Banners hanging, then and now. and I'm pretty sure they had every cup banner hanging even back then........ so yeah if you replaced it it's different than packing it in a box and leaving it behind, never to be used again.

2..I can see back in the Ballard days that happening...... but that was Ballard...so of course he was a POS....

3. there were a LOT of banners hanging in the gardens taking them down was reasonable.......and things kinda meant less in those days... but for the Coyotes, who literally have what? 3 banners hanging up? maybe 4? in the 2020's? that's a much bigger mistake.


upon further reading it sounds like it was a maintenance staff that did it...seemingly without permission as they were in fact stored in the garden's upholstery shop....

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

IMO, that speaks volumes of what they really think of Doan’s loyalty for all those years, not to mention probably the rest of their players…

What a trashbag franchise.

 

[Derailed75]

Actually really sad. Like. How is everything with this organization handled in the worst way possible?

Its crazy odds are they screw up and do something right at some point in time and it seems they defied the odds.

 

[Ice9]

If I'm the Utah owner I hang it in my rafters and welcome Doan to the family and history of my team. Good way to win some good will.

 

[saintflannel]

disgraceful.

 

[OTownCat]

I have questions about this story.....

1.was it old mouldy banners that were replaced with new ones...because the leafs have a lot of Banners hanging, then and now. and I'm pretty sure they had every cup banner hanging even back then........ so yeah if you replaced it it's different than packing it in a box and leaving it behind, never to be used again.

2..I can see back in the Ballard days that happening...... but that was Ballard...so of course he was a POS....

3. there were a LOT of banners hanging in the gardens taking them down was reasonable.......and things kinda meant less in those days... but for the Coyotes, who literally have what? 3 banners hanging up? maybe 4? in the 2020's? that's a much bigger mistake.


upon further reading it sounds like it was a maintenance staff that did it...seemingly without permission as they were in fact stored in the garden's upholstery shop....

It's straight out of Wikipedia for Harold Ballard as I didn't know much about him....he was quite the character. This was a bullet point under the heading of Other Incidents and Anecdotes about him. Both of these banner stories are sort of crazy...and disrespectful to fans whom are fully invested into these teams.

 

[SlimCharles]

What a pathetic man to allow this to happen to the team. Shame on you Alex Meruelo.

 

[hamzarocks]

@cptjeff
There we go Dan Synder got third place.

So first Harold Ballard [also kiddi sex ring in the garden in the 80s (not ran by him by the way, but knowing him, he might have sold tickets to it to make a buck)and overall asshole to everybody]
Second place Marge Schott (Loved her team, but racist af and hard nazi memorabilia and she was way too into her dogs).
And then there is Dan.

We willing to expand Sports to includes Sports Entertainment?

Cuz this guy would be near the tops if we did lol

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

If the Coyotes return they have to not make a joke out of that franchise. Unless it's used as a dumping ground for unwanted contracts.

 

[Edenjung]

We willing to expand Sports to includes Sports Entertainment?

Cuz this guy would be near the tops if we did lol

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Sure why not.
Still Harold is number 1.
Because of how long he did his shit.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

To what purpose? So the fans could boo him? To say "thank you Arizona fans?" I don't understand why he had to show up really.

I help you are and never will be an employer