the coyotes have been on life support the last 10-15 years.
While I know there are a number of hardcore fans, the number of them is very shallow it seems like... The running joke with the Sharks was that they had 20K hockey fans and they all had season tickets (I know that is hyperbole, but with SJ, the fans showed up big time, even if the pool of fans wasn't super wide).
I don't know how this organization can stay in Arizona, even with Bettman's insistence they do...
I'd expect Houston to get the nod...Hockey fans want Quebec, but it's a city of sub 1 million I believe... not sure how they would be able to support that team and with TV markets being the NHL's biggest evaluation, I don't see them adding to that, especially for the US market.
Not sure what will happen, but the Arizona experiment looks like its finally going to end.
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