The facts are, despite their seeming arrogance towards us "outsiders", they have flourished very well.
Yes indeed. And since 1917, despite themselves. Problem is, theyve missed so many boats over the years, continue to do so, they couldve circumnavigated the globe well over 1000 X's if their success hadnt been & continues to be stunted by greed. As self appointed stewards of the game at the highest level & unfortunately emulated by the CHL & elite amateur, absolutely abysmal failures. What they cant handle is any serious light being shone on their activities, the webs of deceit they weave. Its then they turn into Bullies. Most people posting here are not your average fans, their the creme de la creme of fans be it by team, by league, playing the game themselves, historically, the business end of the stick etc. No time for Bullies, know how to handle them, know when their being lied to, misled, know when the NHL's messing up be it the Rules, the CBA, their own teams ownership, management, ownership or players, Toronto, Boston, Arizona or whatever wherever. And while the percentile overall might be small in comparisons to the hundreds of millions of fans of the game & the NHL worldwide, as the stewards of the league just as in any sports or entertainment property & presentation you owe it to your audience to be absolutely 110% honest & forthright in your practices & delivery. To not take any part of that audience for granted. Not even one person. Show some respect. Their paying your bills and but for about 2% not living anywhere nearly as large as most everyone earning a living, making $$$ through the NHL.
So, where can the Coyotes feasibly or even technically relocate to in Arizona? The Suns aren't likely to let them in without the Coyotes/NHL paying for it and even then they may not want to lose the dates. Where was the locations being floated in the summer before the Coyotes & Glendale came to an agreement again? Or is this all a distraction to try and draw eyes away from the U-Hauls?
I guess one thing to keep an eye out for is NHL visits or visits to the NHL/BoG by people not tied to any team. Do we see potential owners from Portland or Houston show up? Hamilton? If the Coyotes relocate in 1-2 years, it will have to be somewhere, which leads to the question of where.
Yeah, all good points, those are the questions to which we seek answers. Not getting any. Just more smoke from LeBlanc and that aint good but whats he going to say? If he just comes right out with "yes, unfortunately we will be moving out of state at the end of this season" attendance would absolutely crater. Take a bigger bath & financial hit then they already are. All kinds of explaining to do thereafter by IA, Bettman & the NHL, get real messy. So thats the cover~story. "Were committed to Arizona & plan stay in-state". Fine. Where? "Were working on it, no further comment at this time". Theyve got 3 choices;
1) Stay at GRA, try & workout the best possible deal they can with the new Arena Manager.
2) Move downtown to Talking Stick Arena, try & work out the best possible deal they can with the Suns et al, work towards the development of a new facility either downtown or in Scottsdale.
3) Move into the old War Vets Memorial Arena, retro-fit it, fix it up, play out of that grand old barn, the original "saddledome", one time home to the WHA & IHL Roadrunners. The place they shouldve moved into back in 96. This whole mess of a situation completely avoided.
Any one of these options is going to cost them sizable amounts of money, money they dont have. They dont have that kind of wealth and unless someone comes along who's prepared to drop bails of it, those 3 options not really options at all.
