NO, MNN,
Here's why:
Glendale is solely at fault here, REMEMBER the thread after thread about who would be the white knight per se, after the damage Moyes caused the franchise by doing what he did, ? was/is and never been answered was the Moyes decision to put this franchise into Bankruptcy a illegal act under US Court.
IA nor anyone else is to blame for that, but it seems posters are blaming IA FOR THINGS THEY NEVER WERE PRIVY TO PRE 2010.
The league has other teams/issues that it deals with, that's why they're allowing IA FULL control to run the franchise the way it should've been run, as the other 29 clubs have been run, not having off-ice issues dominating these mega threads....
let IA do what it was charged with doing, the League has no issues with Arizona SINCE LeBlanc et all took control, the BOG doesn't step in a team issue, whether its an arena unless they're asked to.... IA didn't ask for the cancellation/renegotiation of the lease, Glendale did.
IMHO, this franchise is now recovered from/after what Moyes put it through, and I don't see it leaving Arizona, if this was their plan all along. All IA is doing is strengthening the Coyotes franchise, something which should be applauded.
You can believe that if you want to Hutch.
Have you read the Compliance Review yet?
Do you really think that a 15M/yr AMF was appropriate?
Do you really think that NHL/IA didn't strongarm their way into getting that?
Are you really ready to throw Glendale under the bus after they paid about these monies:
200M to build GRA
50M in ransom to the NHL to keep them there.
20M net in AMF costs for the 2 years the AMF was in effect?
And, while you want to abscond IA for everything that happened before they bought the team, right now they are claiming that the reason they want to go to Tempe is that "Our fans are on the East side of the Valley." Glendale itself cannot be blamed for that. And, IA should have done more due diligence and figured that out.
You continue to claim that NHL has nothing to do with the operation of the Coyotes, and that might well be true. However, you can be sure that NHL will have lots to say about this negotiation, especially if it goes slow. We know that because Bettman has already been down there. And, because Bettman is the face of the league. He shows up at every situation where a new arena is being asked for.
You may think that the team is not leaving. I won't argue for or against that. Not now, I won't, anyway. But, in order to convince the legislature to approve the $$ for this arena, then they may need the threat of relocation. If they use it, it will be BOTH IA and NHL talking about that.
Finally, if the franchise has actually recovered, then why do they need a new arena at all? Glendale is allowing AEG to do all the negotiating about the arena. IA wouldn't have to talk to COG at all. Just get a deal and play there.
The obvious answer to the last paragraph is (NOT that COG has poisoned the waters) that there is no longer a 15M/yr AMF to be had from playing there, so COG has no more value to the Coyotes.
I could go on. But that is how I feel.
ETA: As well, my above post, which you attempted to disagree with, was written, not from my own perspective, but rather the perspective of someone in the State Legislature from, idk maybe, Flagstaff. Or, somewhere where there is very little attachment to the team or to the University. If I were that person, my earlier post describes what I imagine my thinking would be.... Which can be summed up as: It's going to be hard to convince me that you need a new place to play, solely because Glendale legally voided your lease with them.
