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Originally Posted by Joborule
What Phoenix needs ultimately is a team that actually wins and make the playoffs consistently enough (and get into the second round while there at it). No one is gonna love a loser, and that's what the Coyotes have been and why they're in this situation currently. No amount of grassroot development is gonna be effective if the NHL club doesn't give the market a reason to buy tickets. Who wants to watch them lose, even if you have an interest in hockey already developed?
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Well, now you are just proposing a "chicken or the egg" question. In order to love a team and pay to watch them play the team has to be a winner but how do you get enough money to make a team a winner when they are consistently losing money and relying on Vancouver fans to cry about how they have to pay for the Coyotes to play.
I guess the NHL could try something like force Crosby to be traded to the Coyotes.
Realistically though, I think you have to start up with the grass roots program just so you can have a reasonable base of fans to start the team with. 2000 fans just doesn't cut it and I'm sure most of them are Canadians that are snowbirding down to Phoenix.