Goddamn NHL just cut and run from Arizona! What a betrayal!
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WolfHouse
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Makes sense.The Kraken's expansion fee was $650M and the Golden Knights was $500M. If I know anything about this league, its their obsession with their Trumpian-levels of fudging asset inflation.
I would put the likelihood of Ryan Smith writing a $1.3B cheque for the Coyotes around the same probability as Joseph Smith finding golden plates on a hill in rural New York in the early 1800s (i.e., biblical times ) and then translating them into a new bible. Which is precisely zero percent.
And do we really believe Gary and the BoG are going to let Alex Meruelo cash a $1B cheque for selling the NHL the Arizona Yotes?
I would guess that the deal is structured something along the lines of:
- Ryan Smith pays $960M.
- Meruelo gets $300M + losses over the last 3 years. Call it $400M
- The remaining balance of $500M is put into escrow to cover Meruelo's expansion fee and he has 5 years to acquire the arena and capital to make it happen, otherwise, the $500M goes to owners. Expansion fee would be fixed at the $500M in escrow + $400M that Meruelo got from the sale.
- in the meantime, there's probably a small relocation fee being paid to owners, similar to Jets - in the $60-100M range).
I mean yeah, probably lots of 'em. Most of them are probably babies/small children, though.
You'd be surprised. I was in Buenos Aires on holidays and was chatting with a lady from Arizona also on holidays, I made small talk about the Coyotes. She said "wat's that?" "we have a hockey team?"
Haha yeah, I was just kidding. f*** them 'Yotes.
AlphaLackey
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Every avenue, every street, and a couple boulevards too.
"More last chances than Carter's got pills", as us boomer types would say.
Goddamn NHL just cut and run from Arizona! What a betrayal!
If only they had been given a fair chance, who knows what could have been?
sipowicz
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No kidding, terrible the NHL didn't give them time to make it work!Goddamn NHL just cut and run from Arizona! What a betrayal!
Looks like the Oil may very well get the Golden cheats with the miraculously aboe to play Stone in round 1.
ERYX
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Now if only they could both lose. Really don't know who I hate more, but Jets seem to actually be able to play not like complete trash against the Oil ... so I guess I'll root for them to win.
Channelcat
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Ha ya..... remember the whole Coyotes to Winnipeg thing? That all started like 18 years ago.
MardyBum
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This "Utah NHL team" forum is messing with my muscle memory 
This "Utah NHL team" forum is messing with my muscle memory
Definitely, not used to having a team listed to push Winnipeg to the next line on it's own
EDIT: I'm super bad at the alphabet, guys.
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cbcwpg
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So now its official...
Arizona: have retained ownership of the beloved Coyotes name, brand and logo.
Utah: Starting as an entirely new franchise. The history of the Coyotes will stay behind.
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OK... TNSE... do what's needed to get our 1.0 history the hell out of the desert where it never belonged.
Arizona: have retained ownership of the beloved Coyotes name, brand and logo.
Utah: Starting as an entirely new franchise. The history of the Coyotes will stay behind.
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OK... TNSE... do what's needed to get our 1.0 history the hell out of the desert where it never belonged.
You'd think this should set a precedent that could be pursued to get our history back?
cbcwpg
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It should. Utah wants nothing to do with the Coyotes / Jets history so they are starting new, and how silly would it be to have Arizona potentially go thru an expansion draft 5 years from now and keep the Jets 1.0 history.
bustamente
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23 M on the books for the Coyotes on injured reserve this year including Bryan Little all off the books except Weber, I'm guessing the New team in Utah will be run very differently.
yep, and if Atlanta does get another franchise they should rightfully be given the Thrashers history and name back, I would fully support that.
King Woodballs
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Every conceivable avenue has been exhausted. Some multiple times.
This is hilarious
so shifting history of franchises is acceptable practice now.
Guess winnipeg can get theirs back finally.
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Can we start an online protest to get the Jets 1.0 history back? 
sipowicz
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Don't why it didn't stay in Winnipeg in the first place!Can we start an online protest to get the Jets 1.0 history back?
Gary the Grinch didn't even want to leave us the hooks and wire on the wall or small crumbs on the floor. Even the real Grinch left that much to the citizens of Whoville
WolfHouse
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Trust the NHL to f*** this up by letting Utah Hockey Club play a season...
It’s more important to get it right than rush a name. Has not been an issue in the PWHL.
I have no issues with HC Utah
