It's also a different council though. IIRC, the new mayor is not nearly as high on the team as the old mayor was, and in one of the stories I read today, one of the pro-Coyotes councilors has already abstained from this meeting and vote. So really, it's largely new people with new agendas trying to change the vote after the fact.
As to the question of revenue, the city is losing $8 million a year on the current deal. So assuming they lose the team, the question will be whether no Coyotes + no management contract + some number of other events pulled in that were previously unavailable because of the Coyotes existence results in less than $8 million in losses.
Honestly, the city should just convert the arena into a casino. It's been nothing but gamble after gamble from the time it was conceived.
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