I strongly believe Phoenix would be like any other number of southern markets if they had a proper downtown arena and stable ownership.
They easily would have been like Dallas, San Jose, Tampa or whoever else, but had things in their way.
1. They started in an arena not made for hockey, tried to get away from it and made a series of stupid decisions
2. Ownership carousel has been awful.
Give them a proper Tempe hockey arena with stable ownership group back in the late 90's and there'd be no talk of the "Coyotes fanbase".
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