Groo
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The NHL is much more of bush league than the other "major" sports
The Coyotes are terrible and can't score
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Bondurant
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The hopes and dreams of Arizona hockey fans were invested in McEichel. Even landing #2 would have been great. I was watching the lottery results in a hotel room outside of Boston. It was in the cards until it wasn't. Oilers won again and Coyotes walked away with Strome. Seeing some of the guys selected after Strome is salt on the wound.
Intact
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Sure but I saw them hit 2 posts with goalie beat in the first period I saw them play
Do Make Say Think
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The NHL hasn't had refs fixing games or anything similar to the deflated football incident.
The NHL is smaller so it can afford run to a tighter a ship, generally speaking. More money, more problems.
Uncle Scrooge
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Starting the season without Galchenyuk and Dvorak is pretty rough.. Arizona isn't a team that can afford to lose good forwards.
Right now they're icing like 1x 2nd line and 3x bottom 6 lines. Put those two guys in the lineup and suddenly they can ice like 3x 2nd lines. It's going to make a big difference.
Right now they're icing like 1x 2nd line and 3x bottom 6 lines. Put those two guys in the lineup and suddenly they can ice like 3x 2nd lines. It's going to make a big difference.
Hattrick Kane
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Strome needs to step up. Guys drafted after him are making big contributions. He needs to do more than win faceoffs. The guy he "carried" in juniors is lighting it up as well, not a good look.
idk what ur talking about he has scored exactly 50% of all Coyotes goals and is carrying them offensivley
Groo
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Do Make Say Think
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There is a lot less drama in the NHL than in the NBA and the NFL.
Remains to be seen. Just like your golden boy that was gifted a 1st line C in UFA yet is somehow credited with genius status for signing him?
That’s just the business that they have to work with given their owernship and arena situations.
Honestly, I think that no later than 2022 that the coyotes will be gone from Arizona. Sadly, it really comes down to the Suns owner. They can get out of their lease in 2022, but they are still talking with the city about major renos to the arena. Talks about building a new arena to share with the coyotes isn’t something that the suns owner wants.
So, either they commit to make it work in Glendale or they leave. They’ve got to pick their option. But if they are just holding
Out hope that either the suns owner changes his mind or sells the team to someone who wants to buy the coyotes and bring them into a shared new building, then they will continue to be what they have been since 2012.
Their chances of success in AZ was sealed when the NHL told colangelo that NHL hockey wouldn’t come to AZ in his lifetime, so they went ahead to build a basketball focused arena.
Canes
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Coyotes have been to a conference final more recently than Toronto.
Stephen
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I hope you guys made sure to put a banner up for that one.
Panik was waiver fodder for the Blackhawks and now he is on the first line...
Canes
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You guys? My team has a Stanley Cup banner in the rafters more recently than Toronto as well, and has also gone to a Conference Final more recently despite not making the playoffs in 10 years.
Stephen
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If the Yotes are taking zombie contracts on just to hit the cap floor, are they really in the position to offer sheet a guy on the richest team in the league? Kinda like the Oakland A's trying to steal someone off the New York Yankees.
This is his 3rd year.
Year 1 - 70 points
Year 2 - 70 points (with 1 less win)
Year 3 - struggling again
Chayka's gotta get results, especially when he's implied in each of the last 2 off-seasons that his team is ready to take the step for the playoffs.
The only move he's made that has impressed me a lot was Keller.
People blew their load early on with the Datsyuk trade and acted like getting Chychrun was the heist of the century, but as it stands wight now Detroit won that deal AINEC. Chelowski has more upside than Chychrun, and Detroit got a free Hronek who is currently on the roster.
This is a results league and you are what your record says you are.
I have this same argument with my fellow Flyers fans about Hextall vs. Holmgren. Some maintain Homer was WOAT and pretend Hextall is some kind of GM wizard, but one GM inherited the literal last place team in the NHL, built it, made the conference finals twice, won 7 playoff series, made a Cup Final, did everything he could to try to address defense & goaltending, and hired (and fired sigh) the best coach I've ever seen this team have. The other hasn't won anything and has wasted the prime years of Giroux, Voracek & Simmonds (all players the prior WOAT GM acquired, mind you), has not really attempted to improve our defense or goalie situation in any way, and hired his son's college coach out of nepotism.
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Cotton
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Hot damn!
Maybe somebody should be telling that to the locals of Raleigh so they can sell more tickets than some of the teams in the CHL. Just an idea.
LeafChief
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Congratulations!
You've managed to turn a thread about the Coyotes into a thread about the Leafs. Now all of HF's elite will flood into this thread to talk about how Leafs fans turned this into a Leafs thread.
Woo hoo!
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North Cole
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Doubtful. Lots of people dislike the Coyotes, but them taking from the leagues coffers doesnt really matter to the plebs buying tickets. Ticket prices would still be high without profit sharing. I dont feel bad for successful team owners, they're goddamn billionaires.
Screw Shane doan btw.
Also, why do you think they are a bigger market than Edmonton? Just by population size in the surrounding area? I'm sure the Oilers sell more jerseys... and like you said we sell 100%. There is no guarantee that the margery population size could be utilized if the team started doing well, there is also a logistical issue with their arena.
North Cole
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LeafFever brought up the Leafs/oilers on the first two pages. Before this guy even stepped in the thread.
POVERTY
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Can we be sure the banner is there if no one has been to the arena to see it?
Mickey Marner
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If that's the case, your blackout-drunk grammar is excellent.
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