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Originally Posted by timun
Make whom sweat though? City of Tempe? The populace, by and large, don't care. As much as it pains fans like Jordan, most people in the area couldn't care less. The NHL has no power over these people; they're not afraid of the Coyotes packing up and leaving. It doesn't matter to them.
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I guess more just for optics to make other cities sweat where people actually do care, or for the future if somehow the fanbase does grow. If by some miracle, there is another opportunity that goes to a plebiscite in Arizona or elsewhere, they are probably further away from the 51% they need than they were yesterday, if the NHL continues to keep them there at all costs.
The threat of relocation has to be real if the NHL wants to use it when putting pressure on cities, and the only way to make that threat real is to actually do it when something like this fails.