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Originally Posted by Ashasx
The Flames had also missed the playoffs for 7 straight years. The Coyotes are in the Conference finals.
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The issue with the Coyotes is a three prong issue. Firstly, the Coyotes up until two seasons prior to this season were no competitive. The second issue was that Phoenix was not and in my opinion is still not a hcokey market, when you have a team that does not win in a town that does not have a strong hockey market people will not buy tickets.
The third issue was and stil is the American Economy, Florida, Nevada and Phoenix all were the biggest victems of the economy crash due to the sub-prime mortgage issue. Those three states had by far the highest amout of foreclosures in the states. The people in those states had a hard enough time paying for household items so luxury items like tickets so a hockey game were the last on their list of things to purchase.
Further, due to the fact that it is not a hockey town they would not have the corporate sponsorship that other towns (toronto) had and therefor less season tickets would be sold to companies.
Finally, unlike florida where you have lots of Snow birds that own property in the states from Toronto and other hockey provines do not reside to in Phoenix that they do in Toronto,
These are reasons why Phoenix has and will continue to have financial difficulites.