[News] Coyotes relocating to Salt Lake City

[rohara66]

Originally Posted by Joborule

That's despicable.

Meurello doesn't deserve an NHL team. Hope he can't get the arena built within the repurchase window, and another prospective owner that's serious can bring the NHL back to there.

The stories coming out about Meurello and how his franchise was being run are despicable.


I'm sure the NHL has no actual intent of allowing him to get another team. They're just pandering to him to get the team away from him and then they'll punt him to the curb.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Speaking of alcohol sales. It sounds like that stadium in Minnesota is going vegan.

Are they going to have cups that read: "Vegan Beer? I can't Breathe!"

[Gugstanley]

Originally Posted by Locke

That is just...wow. Pretty much as low as it gets.

I can understand that some people are hurt about this, I get that, but to just trash his banner into a dumpster??

Honestly I do not understand that. You already paid for it. Your team is moving. You dont want it and the guy is already there.

Wouldnt it make more sense to just give it to him? And if he wants to trash it thats his business but to just toss it in a dumpster out back? Give me a break.

I dislike using the term 'classless' because that would presume to make me some arbiter of 'class' but this incident seems pretty objective.

Is this more on the arena than the Coyotes? Once kicked out of the arena the Coyotes may not have had a chance to retrieve the banners. The relationship between Glendale City and the Coyotes was very toxic.

I do agree the Coyotes did not seem to every have a decent owner.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by Geeoff

I'm surprised the NHL is leaving an opening for this guy to be an owner in the NHL again

They did what they had to do to get the franchise away from him as he had some leverage.

He’s not going to be building an arena with his own money, that was always a fantasy.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Toonage

Thats true. People (me included) joke about the fan base, but its been death by 1000 cuts there. People cared, or wanted to. Their ownership literally left the rest holding the tatters of what was and could have been.

To a lesser extent, it's similar to the Oakland A's (obviously Yotes have never had the same amount of support as the A's).

After a while, after all the skimping and stadium drama, people just stopped caring.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Locke

I think you've gotta chuck Management in there at the same time. Its not like they've been knocking it out of the park either.

Organization failure is nearly always top down though and the owner stands at the top. Sometimes a good owner hires the wrong people but when it's a trend of hiring the wrong people, then it's an ownership issue.

[All In Good Time]

Originally Posted by Titan2

It would get burned to the ground within 3 days.

No burning required!!
apparently the rumor was false

[Bubba17]

Originally Posted by troutman

https://www.deltacenter.com/food-and-drinks/

https://www.deltacenter.com/arena-po...identification.

Every sports event should have those rules.

[GioforPM]

I wonder what that designated driver booth is? Free sodas or water or something?

[TheIronMaiden]

1996 - 2024

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

He’s not going to be building an arena with his own money, that was always a fantasy.

I think anyone would be crazy to spend a lot of their own money on an arena there. You can get into the granular details about why they didn't have a strong following, but it is what it is now. Building a new arena is far from a guarantee that things would turn around the franchise and it still would have had a big risk of being a failing venture.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Board of Governors call today (owners only). The Executive Committee has already recommended the sale.

[sureLoss]

Originally Posted by Gugstanley

Is this more on the arena than the Coyotes? Once kicked out of the arena the Coyotes may not have had a chance to retrieve the banners. The relationship between Glendale City and the Coyotes was very toxic.

I do agree the Coyotes did not seem to every have a decent owner.

The arena gave the Coyotes a chance to get the banner.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1780826550335856801

https://twitter.com/user/status/1780828064240525754

[JBR]

Originally Posted by Bubba17

Every sports event should have those rules.

The fact that the Delta Center Wi Fi network is titled "JordanPushedOff" is stuff of legends.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

The arena gave the Coyotes a chance to get the banner.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1780826550335856801

https://twitter.com/user/status/1780828064240525754

####ing appalling.

That organization got what it deserved.

[FlamesAddiction]

It still seems kind of callous to just huck it in a dumpster like it had negative value for them to hold on to it. Not like it would take up a tonne of space.

I am not removing blame from the crappy owner (7 different owners in 28 years btw which is crazy). But there seems to have been resentment and disinterest for that franchise at many different levels even predating the current owner.

[dammage79]

Let's not forget that Meurelo or whatever you spell it, was the last owner in a long long line of bad owners. Let's not forget that the NHL owned the team for a good chunk of their existence. The failure of ARZ Coyotes has been 28 years of life support.

The only reason it had any fanbase whatsoever was Bettmans stout refusal to let the pig die.

I suppose we should thank him for it in some way because without ARZ hockey, there's a handful of the league's best players that wouldn't have ever played.

[FlamesAreOne]

It's official.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by dammage79

The only reason it had any fanbase whatsoever was Bettmans stout refusal to let the pig die.

The pig was kept on life support in Arizona to keep it from moving to Vegas or Seattle before the new owners bought expansion franchises.

I believe it's being allowed to move to Utah now because Utah wasn't on the league's list of desirable expansion markets; just as the Thrashers were allowed to move to Winnipeg because the league never had any intention of selling an expansion team there.

Money talks. The difference between a $200 million relocation fee (as reported for Utah) and a $1 billion expansion fee (rumoured for Atlanta and Houston) talks with a really big amplifier.

[Nsd1]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1781052478475182572


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