Coyotes hire Arena Consultant - News in Two Weeks or Something

[The Feckless Puck]

Perhaps Craig Morgan is pushing on the city's behalf and not on Leblanc's behalf.

I haven't seen any indications of that whatsoever in Morgan's reporting. He's been about 98% aligned with IceArizona in his coverage and op-ed pieces.

 

[TheLegend]

Craig Morgan writes what he's been told. So if he gets information from LeBlanc or some other member of IA is he supposed to make up something else so that he won't be looked at as an IA stooge?? Or does he write what he was told??

 

[The Feckless Puck]

Craig Morgan writes what he's been told. So if he gets information from LeBlanc or some other member of IA is he supposed to make up something else so that he won't be looked at as an IA stooge?? Or does he write what he was told??

His reportage is one thing. If you look at his op-ed pieces, though, they toe the IA party line rigidly.

The advantage to this is that he gets access to the owners that other reporters can't, but IMO at the cost of his objectivity.

 

[MIGs Dog]

I was thinking 2 weeks, but thought I'd ask the experts. When do ya'll think we will have a stadium announcement?

 

[rt]

I was thinking 2 weeks, but thought I'd ask the experts. When do ya'll think we will have a stadium announcement?

I'm starting to doubt this team finds a local home. Starting to suspect empty promises for the next ten months until they move out of state. We'll eventually get the Tuscon team up here.

 

[Bonsai Tree]

I'm starting to doubt this team finds a local home. Starting to suspect empty promises for the next ten months until they move out of state. We'll eventually get the Tuscon team up here.

After all these years of emotional misery, I feel absolutely ground down. I am so ready for a resolution.

 

[Coyotes2000]

http://ktar.com/story/1103546/arizo...first-phase-for-athletic-facilities-district/

Everyone too busy bickering about Hanzal? Or how much our owners suck?

 

[rt]

http://ktar.com/story/1103546/arizo...first-phase-for-athletic-facilities-district/

Everyone too busy bickering about Hanzal? Or how much our owners suck?

If that's the case and it's for a shared NHL arena, I'm sure we'll all forgive the ownership group for imaginary double crosses and suspected future betrayals. Haha.

 

[Coyotes2000]

If that's the case and it's for a shared NHL arena, I'm sure we'll all forgive the ownership group for imaginary double crosses and suspected future betrayals. Haha.

The location is right next door to Karsten Golf Course which has publicly been reported as a potential site.

 

[Matias Maccete]

I think most of us are just at a "show don't tell" point with ownership because we've heard the same old song and dance before. If they announce a new arena partnership and lease I think most will get off their back. Hopefully that happens very soon.

 

[rt]

The location is right next door to Karsten Golf Course which has publicly been reported as a potential site.

It looks good. I hope that's true. It's the dream scenario. Add the Tucson news and I'm the happiest I've been since we beat the Blackhawks in round 1.

 

[rt]

I think most of us are just at a "show don't tell" point with ownership because we've heard the same old song and dance before. If they announce a new arena partnership and lease I think most will get off their back. Hopefully that happens very soon.

Exactly. Anyone who continues to hate if they announce Tempe is a done deal is just a hater.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

Reading the Phoenix Business Journal article that KTAR links to, I'm not sure that the hockey arena they're mentioning is one that is NHL-sized, particularly if they're mentioning an adjacent gymnastics arena on the same site.

 

[ClassLessCoyote]

http://ktar.com/story/1103546/arizo...first-phase-for-athletic-facilities-district/

Everyone too busy bickering about Hanzal? Or how much our owners suck?

This article is nothing more than a waste of our time as I don't see anything confirming the Coyotes playing at this location.

 

[Coyotes2000]

This article is nothing more than a waste of our time as I don't see anything confirming the Coyotes playing at this location.

LOL, this guy

Yeah, the development of a Sports facility district in an area that has been rumored to be the location of a potential new Yotes rink in Tempe..

Not applicable to this forum or thread at all.

 

[rt]

I'll be ecstatic if the Coyotes move to this Tempe location. I'm over the moon about the Tucson AHL team, too. Also, the new uniforms are really cool. I'm pretty happy with the ownership group should they manage to land this Tempe arena deal. I'm not super mad Maloney was fired. I called for it a number of times. My only complaint I have remaining is handing the keys to the castle to Dave Tippett. Even that might still work out. It hasn't yet been given a chance. I suspect it will fail miserably, but it might not. So, if this Tempe thing is real, I'm happy and don't have much negative to say about the whole ownership situation since IA took over.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

LOL, this guy

Yeah, the development of a Sports facility district in an area that has been rumored to be the location of a potential new Yotes rink in Tempe..

Not applicable to this forum or thread at all.

It's definitely applicable. The question at hand is the scope of the sports district. It read to me in the PBJ article that they are looking at developing an arena complex for multiple sports, which would not suit the Coyotes' needs.

Need to wait for more confirmed details before we can go one way or the other.

 

[ClassLessCoyote]

LOL, this guy

Yeah, the development of a Sports facility district in an area that has been rumored to be the location of a potential new Yotes rink in Tempe..

Not applicable to this forum or thread at all.

Let's take a look at the previous post by you.

http://ktar.com/story/1103546/arizo...first-phase-for-athletic-facilities-district/

Everyone too busy bickering about Hanzal? Or how much our owners suck?

1st you made it sound as if nobody read the article before you posted this. I'm sure plenty of people read the article but didn't bother to post it because it's not confirming the Coyotes staying in Arizona(which btw is the really the only question from ownership that Coyotes fans want answered for quite sometime and are growing impatient with the lack of a real answer). 2nd your rhetorical questions in this post were nothing more than a shot at everyone at this board while you continue use this schtick that screams "I know more than everyone here and I know what the owners are really doing". even though I don't see anything of great detailed information on your end to back up your claims. Going forward with arena plans doesn't mean the team is staying. Downtown Phoenix could go forward with a new arena deal tomorrow and that doesn't mean the Coyotes will be in it.

 

[TheLegend]

This article is nothing more than a waste of our time as I don't see anything confirming the Coyotes playing at this location.

LOL, this guy

Yeah, the development of a Sports facility district in an area that has been rumored to be the location of a potential new Yotes rink in Tempe..

Not applicable to this forum or thread at all.

Actually I'm siding with gra on this.

Anything short of a real confirmation at this point is pointless. And I'm saying this as the one person who's been consistently spitting in the BoH winds for the last 7 odd years.

Coyotes fans have had enough rumors. They need (and deserve) something set in stone.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

Much as I would like that to be for the Coyotes at that site, I have a feeling this is the 'Olympic sports' ASU facility that I've seen mentioned before, around the time the D-I move was announced, I think (but am too lazy to go look up).

 

[Bonsai Tree]

I'll be ecstatic if the Coyotes move to this Tempe location. I'm over the moon about the Tucson AHL team, too. Also, the new uniforms are really cool. I'm pretty happy with the ownership group should they manage to land this Tempe arena deal. I'm not super mad Maloney was fired. I called for it a number of times. My only complaint I have remaining is handing the keys to the castle to Dave Tippett. Even that might still work out. It hasn't yet been given a chance. I suspect it will fail miserably, but it might not. So, if this Tempe thing is real, I'm happy and don't have much negative to say about the whole ownership situation since IA took over.

That new medication seems to be working out well for you

 

[Bonsai Tree]

If I understand this correctly, what the stadium district means is that one can fast track an agreement and financing as there needs to be no public or or legislative vote in order to go forward with an NHL arena.

 

[Murf]

A small arena for ASU hockey would not generate revenue for renovations at Sun Devil Stadium, as the article identifies as the impetus for the district. Is some private developer really going to build a small hockey arena on that land, to host 20 events of 4,000 people paying $10 a seat? They would struggle to cover event related costs - forget about paying rent.

Logically, the development should be something that generates pro level revenue, and allows ASU hockey and others piggyback.

A gymnastics facility is no big deal. It's a warehouse with bleachers that can double as convention space.

 

[Coyotes2000]

I can't see how building a shopping district and condos would be needed for a small rink and a gymnastics facility..

 

[XX]

The location is right next door to Karsten Golf Course which has publicly been reported as a potential site.

So you literally know nothing, just trying to put two things together. The AFD has been in the works long before the Coyotes became a thing. The realities of financing an NHL sized arena haven't changed.