General Ongoing Coyotes saga thread

[tjinaz]

That would rule. But replace the Coyote head with this


The package tours from BC in the winter would ensure sellouts for nearly the entire season.

new marketing slogan from "hockey the hardway" to "you have to be high to see hockey in the desert"

So long as the team stays... I'm game.

[Jordan!]

Originally Posted by Vulcan

Well a fair solution in the sense that this team isn't the Glendale Coyotes, it's the Phoenix Coyotes and if Phoenix wants the team to represent the whole area, the whole area should take some responsibility.
I get it, you don't live in Glendale but want the team to stay but aren't willing to have your tax dollars go to keeping the team.

Well, I plan to buy a home in the next year and Glendale is a location i'm looking at. I don't care about the extra taxes. If the Coyotes weren't there i'd be looking elsewhere.

Also, previous ownership bids included changing the team name to the "Arizona Coyotes" I'd be surprised if this wasn't the same with the Jamison deal.

[Jordan!]

Originally Posted by Vulcan

Does the community of Phoenix want the team or not? It looks to me that they don't.

REALLY?

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by Bouw N Arrow

REALLY?

[troutman]

Réjean Tremblay (senior hockey columnist) this morning at FM93

"Bettman is not nervous at all. He knows Peladeau can solve his problems in 3 days"

http://www.fm93.com/audioplayer.php?mp3=135471

French audio at beginning at 10:00

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Bouw N Arrow

REALLY?

Anyone can sell cheap playoff tickets. Can this translate to more tickets sold (at higher prices) in the regular season?

[LChoy]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

To be fair, Phx vs the Wild wouldn't be my first choice of game to go see

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Lchoy

To be fair, Phx vs the Wild wouldn't be my first choice of game to go see

That's true! But strong markets can sell out any game, no matter the opponent. Obviously, Phoenix can't.

[nik-]

Putting on a free t-shirt signifies community support.

[troutman]

$25 million NHL payment will come from Glendale utility fund

http://www.azcentral.com/community/g...lity-fund.html

Glendale's second $25 million pledge to the National Hockey League largely came from city water and sewer funds, which is not what city administrators said would happen.

Actually, city staff said the money wouldn't be needed at all because they expected the Phoenix Coyotes to be sold. If that had occurred, the pledge to help the NHL cover team losses during the 2011-12 season would have been moot.

That didn't happen and the biggest chunk of the pledge, $15 million, was siphoned from the utility fund into an escrow account awaiting the NHL's bill, which is expected any day.


Coyotes update

The Glendale City Council is expected to vote in the coming weeks on agreements with a potential Phoenix Coyotes buyer Greg Jamison regarding the lease and management of the city-owned Jobing.com Arena.

Glendale denied The Republic's request for copies of draft agreements provided to council in late May.

The request was made to provide details on the costs taxpayers are expected to bear, including $17 million in the coming fiscal year. The Republic noted the state's public-records law does not exempt draft agreements from disclosure and that residents need time to review and offer feedback on the complex, 20-year deal.

City officials said they would not release the documents because they are the subject of ongoing negotiations and it would not be in the city's best interest to release them.

As it stands, the city is expected to release the deal to the public by 5 p.m. June 8 ahead of a Tuesday council vote. That would provide taxpayers just two working days to review and offer feedback to elected officials on the deal.

[Coach]

I don't know if this has been asked yet or not but are you somehow involved in these proceedings, troutman? Or are you just following it very closely?

[troutman]

Originally Posted by MattyC

I don't know if this has been asked yet or not but are you somehow involved in these proceedings, troutman? Or are you just following it very closely?

Just interested in cases of municipal madness. Maybe I can write a book from all these clippings?

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by troutman

Just interested in cases of municipal madness. Maybe I can write a book from all these clippings?

Judging by the level of interest in the team I suspect it would have to be a purely vanity publication you can hand out to friends in lieu of a real gift at christmas and the like.

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by Bouw N Arrow

REALLY?

Wow, amazing fans! Most of them put their free white t-shirts on!

[valo403]

Originally Posted by Vulcan

So is the Glendale council committing political suicide by donating to the Coyotes? Ditto for the Calgary, QC and Edmonton councils.

If the other Phoenix area councils can make a case that keeping the team is better for the whole metro area, there shouldn't be a problem. I do agree though there doesn't appear to be much concerted effort to keep the Coyotes, I think they should just fade into the night, if they don't want to try. In fact they should have been gone three years ago, I'm just looking at a possible and fair solution to the whole financial mess.

The Glendale council has an arena to pay for, Coyotes or no Coyotes. I have no idea what those other cities have to do with anything.

[Jordan!]

Originally Posted by Komskies

Wow, amazing fans! Most of them put their free white t-shirts on!

Holy petty-ness above batman!

This shows the community cares about this team more than ever.

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by valo403

The Glendale council has an arena to pay for, Coyotes or no Coyotes. I have no idea what those other cities have to do with anything.

They are going about it in a strange way in having to pay $17M/yr when they could cut their losses and collect $6M/yr from another outfit willing to run the arena for them.

Those other city's councils have or will have contributed to their NHL team and haven't committed political suicide. They have done it for the supposed benefit to the community and tax payers have mostly gone along with it. Why can't the various councils in Phoenix do the same, if they feel the team is a benefit to the whole area?

[Jordan!]

It's not going to be $17 million every year. From what i've heard it will drop to $5 million per year over time. Greg Jamison has also spoke of the possibility of buying Westgate and the Arena itself.

He's going to build this thing from the ground up

[PegCityFlamesFan]

Originally Posted by Bouw N Arrow

Holy petty-ness above batman!

This shows the community cares about this team more than ever.

I think it shows what 20 dollars and a free t shirt gets you for playoff hockey in Phoenix.

[The Original FFIV]

I think it is time for a poll - will the Coyotes stay or go?

Mid June is when we should know if the budget passes or not. Interesting that outgoing mayor Scruggs opposes the $17M management fee as she thinks it should be $11M. Cue the Mayflower moving vans.