Who are all these players that didn't want to leave Arizona?
Most of them?
Who's the last player that was banging down the door to get out of here? Turris in 2011?
Quite a number of Coyotes who were traded or let go said publicly they didn't want to leave and some even returned.
Vrbata (twice)
Vermette
Morris (twice)
Ribeiro even used his NTC to kill a deal that would send him to Calgary.
Doan of course.
And with 2 pretty good sized extensions in OEL and Hjalmarsson this offseason.
Signing Goligoski after trading for his rights.
The main point is that there's this narrative out there that the Coyotes can't retain their players and it's basically bunk.
Most of the players they've let go over the recent years have been due to rebuilding or decline in play.