Arizona has been tanking purposely since last season.
They were purposely trying to dump veteran contacts to bring the kids up. Kids who weren't ready or close to ready. I believe the difference between signing Vrbata (one of their best forwards) and losing him to Vancouver was less then $1M or so. Now they are publicly selling off players.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this Vegas "expansion" was actually the Coyotes moving to Vegas after they finished cleaning house of players and destroying the last of what they have in the desert.
Oh and Buffalo is just that terrible. If you look at the Amerks, they really don't have much in the minors to bank on either. There's just poor management planning there.
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