03-16-2024, 10:49 PM
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#41
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by sureLoss
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Yeah, I'm actually 'the other bidder.'
I can't actually afford it, I'm just driving up the price.
#sorrynotsorry
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03-16-2024, 11:04 PM
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#42
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All I can get
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Originally Posted by butterfly
That's exactly why Salt Lake City wants their own expansion team.
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Maybe. Then again, maybe they'd be interested in a slightly used team if the price is right. Nicely stocked with some excellent young prospects.
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03-16-2024, 11:06 PM
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#43
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
Maybe. Then again, maybe they'd be interested in a slightly used team if the price is right. Nicely stocked with some excellent young prospects.
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Meruelo gets enough money to offset his losses, the other owners get shares of a nice fat relocation fee, and the team gets… uh… fans, plural.
Sounds like a win all around.
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03-16-2024, 11:12 PM
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#44
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: 161 St. - Yankee Stadium
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Welcome your 2024/25 Salt Lake City Slickers!
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03-16-2024, 11:19 PM
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#45
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by JBR
Welcome your 2024/25 Salt Lake City Slickers!
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We've been over this. We've even designed the jerseys.
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Originally Posted by Locke
The Salt Shakers!
I mean the branding and mascot just write themselves.
Come on! I know you're all envisioning an angry salt-shaker wielding a hockey stick on the front of a jersey!
It'd have angry eye-brows and everything.
Aw...I've gotta copyright this!
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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
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Originally Posted by Locke
We've done the hard work. Your move Utah.
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03-16-2024, 11:49 PM
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#46
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Calgary
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Personally I think the Coyotes brand is beyond damaged in Phoenix. Relocate the Coyotes to Salt Lake City or Houston and add Phoenix to the list of potential future expansion cities.
I went to a game in Mullet Arena earlier this year and there is no other way to phrase it other than it’s incredibly embarrassing for the NHL to be in that facility.
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03-17-2024, 12:06 AM
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#47
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Franchise Player
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My gut feeling is that "winning the auction" might only prolong the agony for Coyote fans in the area. And make it harder for the NHL to strongly encourage Meruelo to sell.
The Winnipeg/Atlanta scenario was a little different. The Thrashers owners complained about losing money and were known to be looking for new investors and considering a possible sale.
Not the fact pattern here.
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03-17-2024, 12:17 AM
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#48
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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We could also go with the "Sodium Chloride Dihydrogen Monoxide Repositoriums!"
Their logo could just be a puddle.
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03-17-2024, 12:46 AM
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All I can get
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Originally Posted by Locke
We've been over this. We've even designed the jerseys.
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To celebrate a playoff win, fans will toss salt licks they smuggled into the arena onto the ice.
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03-17-2024, 12:48 AM
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#50
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
To celebrate a playoff win, fans will toss salt licks they smuggled into the arena onto the ice.
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Lol! And just watch the ice slowly melt...
Ice Maintenance Guy: "Motherf###ers! Damn you bastards!!"
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03-17-2024, 09:28 AM
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#51
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by Locke
We've been over this. We've even designed the jerseys.
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BSD would need to be one of their netminders.
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03-17-2024, 09:36 AM
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#52
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by D as in David
BSD would need to be one of their netminders.
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They'll take him in the Expansion draft.
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03-17-2024, 10:13 AM
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#53
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The Bay Area
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Originally Posted by Tuco
Why don't you explain this to me like I'm 5.
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I'll try.
Go to your room and wait 'til your Father comes home.
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03-18-2024, 10:23 AM
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Jordan!
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Just move them already, that land is north of TPC Scottsdale which is a 1/2 hour drive in good traffic from the airport and downtown, if you can't build an arena near downtown move.
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You have no clue.
This is like 5-15 minutes from some of the wealthiest people in AZ who are actually hockey fans.
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03-18-2024, 11:06 AM
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#55
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Originally Posted by Jordan!
You have no clue.
This is like 5-15 minutes from some of the wealthiest people in AZ who are actually hockey fans.
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In context to Glendale location, why would this be a better location that could yield better turnout?
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03-18-2024, 11:12 AM
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#56
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Seattle, WA
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Originally Posted by Jordan!
You have no clue.
This is like 5-15 minutes from some of the wealthiest people in AZ who are actually hockey fans.
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Part of the criticism of Glendale was that it was brutal to get to for a 7pm weekday game.
This location isn't much better.
The 101 is absolutely gridlocked from 3-6 pm. I was commuting from Mesa to TPC Scottsdale in February and started looking for a rental place the same week, the traffic was that bad.
Yes, it's closer to the rich folk in North Scottsdale, but that's about it.
The Tempe location was far better for accessibility.
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03-18-2024, 11:16 AM
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#57
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: MTL
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Anyone else reading this thread feel like this is an episode of 'The Californians'?
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It's at the northwest corner of the intersection between the 101 and Scottsdale Road.
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Northwest corner of loop 101 and Scottsdale Road. Need the cross street to know the parcel location.
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north of TPC Scottsdale which is a 1/2 hour drive in good traffic from the airport and downtown
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That land is right across Scottsdale Road from Grayhawk. It's a couple miles (street miles) from TPC Scottsdale.
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03-18-2024, 11:20 AM
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#58
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Originally Posted by Joborule
In context to Glendale location, why would this be a better location that could yield better turnout?
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It really isn't. It's moving it from one corner of the metro area to another. No where near being central. The only thing going for it is the proximity to Scottsdale and Paradise Valley money. Unfortunately there is a big argument over whether those citizens are the ones spending money on NHL hockey. Seems there is more support from the locations where club teams and hockey families reside which makes a location hard to pick if it is about hockey. The problem is this isn't really about hockey, it's about real estate development and secondary revenue streams. Scottsdale provides biggest opportunity for spin off real estate development and cashing in big.
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03-18-2024, 11:24 AM
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#59
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
The problem is this isn't really about hockey, it's about real estate development and secondary revenue streams. Scottsdale provides biggest opportunity for spin off real estate development and cashing in big.
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Sounds like they just need to build it underground, with a golf course & resort on top. Problem solved.
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03-18-2024, 01:46 PM
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Jordan!
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
It really isn't. It's moving it from one corner of the metro area to another. No where near being central. The only thing going for it is the proximity to Scottsdale and Paradise Valley money. Unfortunately there is a big argument over whether those citizens are the ones spending money on NHL hockey. Seems there is more support from the locations where club teams and hockey families reside which makes a location hard to pick if it is about hockey. The problem is this isn't really about hockey, it's about real estate development and secondary revenue streams. Scottsdale provides biggest opportunity for spin off real estate development and cashing in big.
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Bingo! this is a HIGH, HIGH end location and Alex Meruelo will clean up if he builds a new Scottsdale Quarter/Kierland like development - I lived right across the 101 from this location for a couple of years. The team wouldn't need a single fan to attend a game and he'll still be profitable.
Glendale would be a KIA and this would be a Ferrari if you want to compare.
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