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Originally Posted by Wolven
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.
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As long as the Coyotes keep making the playoffs and try avoiding the Red Wings in the future perhaps, they will keep growing the fanbase if they get the news that it's going to be sticking around still. They're in a similar situation as the Preds are. A good coach that can make use of a team that doesn't have a salary cap budget. As long as they can keep yield minimum results of being competitive, they'll build support slowly but surely.