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Originally Posted by pylon

There are many cities that would embrace, and support this franchise. Winnipeg, deserved a team, Quebec City deserves a team, Hamilton Deserves a team. Having an NHL franchise is the ultimate priveledge as a hockey fan, and regardless of the crappy product the last few years, I am still incredibly grateful, I can say my home town, is in the most elite club of hockey fandom. We are an NHL city. We probably care more here about the Roughnecks, than the citizens of Phoenix care about the Coyotes.

The Phoenix coyotes are a slap in the face to NHL fans. That a city that can't even put what some TOWNS put in an arena for WHL games, at higher prices, cheapens the NHL, and is an insult to the game.

I have said it before, you could put the Coyotes in the Red Deer Centrium, and generate more revenue, have a full building every single night, and probably find a way with creative pricing to have a break even team if they were a cap floor setup. The fact this has been allowed to go on so long, is the biggest joke ever in the NHL.

Phoenix is a great sports town, unfortunately hockey just isn't considered a sport to them. Give the team to a city that cares. And it doesn't have to be Canadian in my eyes. I still think Vegas, would be the ultimate stop for them. No pro sports teams, thousands of Canadian tourists to draw off... heck, I would make the Las Vegas Bandits my second team in a heartbeat.

That's such garbage. I've asked this repeatedly of people never get an answer.

How does the presence of an NHL team in Phoenix negatively impact you personally?