The Coyotes have sent a letter of intent to North Phoenix, Bettman is confident, Marty Walsh is big mad.
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Coyotes are here to stay!
Hey man, will be interesting to see how things go from here on out. Hope life is going well and you are having a great weekend. Nice jersey by the way, happy they are staying around the area. Thank you for sharing your takes and update on the Coyotes. Always fun to drop by and leave a comment. Great job on the video!!
My friend and I heard this yesterday. This has been some crazy news! It's finally nice to hear something over nothing, and having a bit of stability with the Coyotes is going to be a relief! This team does have a great future with some great players on this current roster! Even if we don't get it this year, our future looks bright!
Not an ideal site for people in the east valley, but much better then Glendale, plus the land is basically Scottsdale. Huge opportunity to build a new base with the snowbirds and the business there
GREAT video. You along with Matt are voices of reason on everything surrounding the uncertainty of this team. You offer an outstanding, well thought out way to deliver the most important points to why the Coyotes are destined to stay in Arizona. Just think less than 24 hours before I wrote this comment, doom and gloom was consuming the Coyotes fan base because of Elliotte Friedman's comments on PHNX Sports' Coyotes podcast back on Tuesday.
I kept thinking all along that it may not be until the end of the current season that there will be a announcement to confirm the finalization of an arena deal. Unfortunately the idea that this weekend was the deadline was taken far too seriously by those like Friedman, but I do fault Xavier Gutierrez for throwing out there back on October 20th the timeline of 45 to 60 days to wait for it to be done and clearly that did not happen. So I get it with the extreme pessimism.
As for Marty Walsh, his comments were completely uncalled for and all it served was slandering the organization and putting them in a bad light. Agreed, he has no power over the team to force them to provide him with inside information on what ownership is discussing and negotiating with local government officials, business groups and community leaders. Alex Meruelo answers to Gary Bettman and the other 31 owners, NOT him. Walsh didn't need to lash out through the media and has done it multiple times before yesterday, so I cannot blame Meruelo for not speaking to him in recent months.
Considering that there will not be a need for remediation like the Tempe deal would have been, I still can see a late 2026 or very early 2027 opening of the arena if everything is on a reasonable timeline and goes according to their intended plans.
The Coyotes may move, but one thing for sure Tempe WILL still have a Hazmat dump in 10 years
As a Arizona Coyotes fan from New Jersey, I hope the Arizona Coyotes will build the brand new arena in north Phoenix by avoiding a public arena vote, but I'm sick and tired of Marty Walsh saying that he wants the Arizona Coyotes to leave the Grand Canyon state, by moving to Houston Texas, or Salt Lake City Utah, even though I didn't expect Salt Lake City to be a fast growing sports city, I thought Salt Lake City isn't a big market I mean Delta Center isn't suitable for an NHL team like the Phoenix Suns arena Footprint Center, but I'd prefer the NHL to have a Atlanta expansion team for the Atlantic division, a Cincinnati expansion team for the Metropolitan division, a Houston expansion team for the Central division, and a Salt Lake City expansion team for the Pacific division even though the Arizona Coyotes will never relocate, they'll never win the first Stanley cup during the inaugural season as a Houston NHL team in Toyota Center, they'll never win the first Stanley cup in Houston Texas, they'll never win the first Stanley cup during the inaugural season as a Utah, or Salt Lake City NHL team in Delta Center, they'll never win the first Stanley cup in Salt Lake City Utah, they're staying in the Grand Canyon state forever 100% at least the NHL will definitely win a Atlanta expansion team for the Atlantic division, a Cincinnati expansion team for the Metropolitan division, a Houston expansion team for the Central division, and a Salt Lake City expansion team for the Pacific division but the Arizona Coyotes will definitely win the first Stanley cup in the Grand Canyon state, and rule the Arizona desert in the east valley of the sun no more relocation rumors for the Arizona Coyotes, no more relocating NHL teams, and no more folding NHL teams please it's getting old already, end of story relocation rumors, Let's Go Coyotes, I'm wishing you the best of luck in the Arizona desert, I'm howling for you boys, I❤you Arizona Coyotes always and forever with all my❤
They’re never leaving Arizona. If by the end of the mullet lease they still don’t have an arena, they’ll sign a new 4 year lease at mullet until they can figure this out
The Arizona Coyotes are 100% relocating.
The Arizona Coyotes have lost $115.2 million USD between 2013 and 2023 (according to Forbes Business of Hockey). That is more than any other team in the NHL over that same period.
The Arizona Coyotes DO NOT generate money for the league.
The Coyotes can't stay in Phoenix anymore because the footprint center converted to basketball exclusively.
The Arizona Coyotes were also sued by the city of Phoenix twice for interfering with zoning laws in accordance with planned flight paths.
The team was sued by city of Glendale for not paying taxes.
Rejected by the cities of Scottsdale AND Tempe.
How many cities are left? Mesa? Muerello bought land in Reno, Nevada, but a second team in Nevada is absolutely laughable…
Let's see. The Coyotes will play at Mullet Arena until 2023-2024 minimum.
There is NO arena planned. There is NO city chosen. Yet.
They still have to find a location. And purchase the land… (talk about a parcel of land in scottsdale, but nothing has happened yet…still waiting – and it's in a BAD location apparently very little hockey fans/money in that area)
To build a brand new arena from scratch, takes a minimum 3 years construction (assuming there are NO delays). And that's if they don't get resoundingly rejected by Mesa, or Scottsdale…like the Tempe vote was.
2027 is the realistic soonest possible date for a new arena construction.
Therefore…The Arizona Coyotes are 100% relocating.
Why spend $500 million on another arena, which may or may not work out? That would be crazy. To build this team a new arena would be insane. to pump $500 million into an arena, while an arena in glendale EXISTS and the team lost $115.2 million in the past ten years – you will NEVER RECOUP YOUR LOSSES IN ARIZONA.
List of NHL sized arenas in cities without NHL teams:
Videotron Centre – Quebec City, Quebec
MODA Center – Portland, Oregon
Fiserv Forum – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Delta Center – Salt Lake City, Utah
Toyota Center – Houston, Texas
FirstOntario Centre – Hamilton, Ontario (currently renovating)
Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse – Cleveland, Ohio
T-Mobile Center (Sprint Center) – Kansas City, Missouri
You don't need a $500 million dollar arena – and some of these locations would ACTUALLY generate revenue for the NHL unlike the Arizona Coyotes.