Just back home from a whirlwind AZ/NV vacation for wedding in Gilbert, Coyotes/Devils and Coyotes/Knights over the weekend. First and only Coyotes games I'll see in person this season ... probably.
The kids were sick ... Keller and Perlini and Dvorak and Fischer are so, so fast. After moving to town for the golden years of Chipchura and Moss and Klinkhammer, seeing the fruits of Don Maloney's rebuild was really cool. Impressed by Wedgewood, great shutout against NJD. Staff at the main entrance (Westgate side) was even sparser than I remember from 2015, hope that was an anomaly because it looked really amateurish to have so few people checking tickets. Gift shop had some cool new things in it. I just added to the puck collection with a couple new designs because I'm not cool or new, but the variety is awesome in there. Finally got to try the arena poutine ... buddy opted for regular, I went with green chili, and while i'm not sure green chili poutine is actually poutine, the stuff was damn good.
HIGHLY recommend a trip up to Vegas for one of those games if you get a chance. I drove in about 3 hours before puck drop on Sunday, plenty of time to get situated, get a ticket, eat, drink (out on the street, bless this town) and enjoy the scene before the game. Saw and high-fived probably 40 Coyotes fans, sat next to a couple Vegas fans (Canadian transplants who lived out there now) who were really cool. Prices in the arena were a half-tick higher than ARZ but still not bad ... good food selection, I had a prime rib sandwich, and they had Four Peaks Kilt Lifter on tap up there. I didn't think to ask if it was permanent, but it was only at one of the kiosks, and part of me thinks they MIGHT be badass enough to do a rotating tap, where they stock Molson when the Flames come to town, Yeungling when the Capitals, etc. If any town would do that, it'd be Vegas. Spent $120 to sit about halfway up the lower bowl and made most of it back at the poker table before fatigue finally caught up to me at about 1130. Bought a VGK puck and a sweet individual game puck (dual ARZ/VGK logos, 3 December 2017, etc)
HIGHLY recommend this trip ... great town obviously, needs to become a great rivalry.
And you weren't laughed off of the BOH board for asserting that it has any significance? I go to every game and I can assert with equal insignificance that the crowds are no greater than last year. There has been no bump with the new ownership, coach and talent. People aren't paying good money to experience this bad hockey team. Except for me and a couple of thousand, at most, STH. 
