I really hope with his leadership he can make hockey successful in Arizona with the reactivation of the Coyotes. This is a huge opportunity to JJ Watt and Shane Doan to join forces too. I fully support this. With the right people in charge and an arena at the right location, hockey will work in the desert.
Plus I'm totally supportive of the expansion contenders there is as of right now because there's no need of realignment. Arizona Coyotes (Pacific), Houston Aeros (Central), Atlanta Thrashers (Metropolitan) and Quebec Nordiques (Atlantic). I personally think this is the most realistic scenario of a future NHL expansion.
by JoelManuelV1
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Please no more teams!!!!!!
I hope PHX gets an opportunity to have a team with competent ownership. As an implant who moved to Tempe from St Louis I loved every single Blues/Coyotes game I attended at Gila River Arena and Mullet Arena. Arizona is a fuckin rad place and deserves hockey to be there.
Well he definitely has the money to do it, and build a new arena for them.
I swear it would be the funniest thing ever if Arizona gets a second team before Quebec
Oh hell yeah! Name them the Moons. Phoenix Suns and Moons.
I hope this is real for all my friends in Arizona
The issue was never the fanbase or even the city/state. It was all management/ownership.
Ishbia is a lot better. Phoenix deserves a proper franchise
So it was just about getting rid of Alex Merulo?? Lol
there are too many teams as it is. The more expansion, the more the quality of officials goes down. There just aren’t enough officials
They would rather put a team on the moon then another Canadian team
3rd times the charm š
Yea I just donāt care.
No offense to phoenix or any other expansion teams but this needs to stop.
We already are slipping further and further from a parity league as more spots are filled with minor league players to fill teams.
32 is fine and until all 32 close the gap in parity and we have an explosion in youth programs and talent, then fuck off.
No.
I would feel confident in an Ishbia-led NHL team in Phoenix. I donāt think it would be the disaster that the Coyotes were
lol, loving the added 4 teams. I’m sure that the NHL is just chomping at the bit to reinstate 3 failed franchises out of 4 new teams.
Read up on this guy, heās horrible.
Quebec City will never ever ever ever ever get another team.
Piece of shit replaced by another piece of shit. Awesome
Meruelo must be stewing. I have zero sympathy for him after he mismanaged that franchise so badly, but to have this get floated out just weeks after he ends up finally signing over his rights to the franchise must sting.
Here I thought he wasnāt gonna sink any more money with how the Suns finances look right now.
Noā¦..just no stop it
The Phoenix team has never made any money into almost 30 years they were in Arizona. They always has a excuse of why they were not making a money. What makes it any different now?
Thatās too many expansion drafts for me dawg