The_Admiral

This reminds me of the Matt Hulsizer Fax Machine

Thanks for reminding me that this team has to compete with BYU/UofU football too. But then, as I've said before, the BYU/Coyotes overlap is probably going to be very thin.

awesomeballs

Balsillie would have had the Coyotes ready to go in Hamilton for 2009-10. Winnipeg was 15 minutes away from announcing the move in spring 2010. Quebecor got the Colisee back up to NHL standards in anticipation. The moving trucks were bound for Seattle. It's not a matter of logistics. It's that now and only now, after getting evicted from their arena, losing a vote for a new one, and not having their crap together for a different new one, that Bettman lost faith in them or the board lost faith in Bettman. This was a 15-year passion project on the part of the commissioner's office that was put to an end.

You forgot Portland in the early 2000s, had the Coyotes not gotten the Glendale arena. We could have avoided this whole thing.

I always wanted green and brown for a Milwaukee NHL team. Voyageurs or something.

Did we talk about what ever happened to George Gosbee, the person who first bought the Coyotes out of league ownership? https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/corbella-gosbee I'm sorry I asked. The domestic abuse is appalling, but "my undoing was my addiction to counterfeit luxury watches" is platonic-ideal OITGDNHL.

Not on this board, no, but the ass-grabbers on reddit are all holding each other and weeping about how Phoenix is really a great market that was done wrong by a horrible league that just gave up too soon. I get annoyed but then it's possible some of them are 14 years old and literally were not alive when Jerry Moyes first :censored:ed off.

Yeah, that's the other one. Arlington Heights will be worth it in the end because we'll get a WrestleMania. Maybe ours will set the record with 50 run-ins in a single match.

THE UTAH SANDWORMS! THE SPICE MUST FLOW!

At that point they're halfway to a Charlotte Hornets retcon where they could reunify the NHL Winnipeg histories and declare the 1996-2024 franchise to be something new to be resumed. I'm still waiting on the Seattle Supersonics that the Thunder have just been hanging onto in the meantime, by the way.

How many March Madnesseseseseseses are there that every Hooterville in America thinks they can justify building a domed stadium by getting one? I might argue that it's unwise to create a race to the bottom that Indianapolis and New Orleans will generally win anyway.

Man. Salt Lake City. The league is a Portland/Austin expansion away from an in-season tournament for smug transplant cities.

Lest you think that the good guys won in any way here, Alex Meruelo is being rewarded with a billion dollars for not paying his taxes. Somewhere in Scottsdale, Jerry Reinsdorf is like "this guy is stealing my ideas!"

I almost wonder if the league just voted to move Bettman.

Friedman deleted that tweet but added a new one saying roughly the same thing. Let's not forget that the Coyotes once came 15 minutes away from death and escaped, but this really might be it.

"Oh, sure, but what about the social media managers who will be out of a job?" The social media managers who will be out of a job:

I wonder if Shane Doan's kid is going to copy his old man and say he won't report to Utah because he has a no-move clause.

I'm not sure it helps, but separate ownership would have doomed them. I think this team's fanbase will have a very similar profile to that of the Hurricanes fanbase. They will be the team of the "Ride the SLUT" set. Does Salt Lake City have low-key amazing craft breweries???

Think of how many of this message board's boutique issues in this vein have rapidly gone mainstream. "Why do these official uniforms look like cheap Chinese counterfeits that fall apart?" "Why does this sports team need a new building already?" "How do they charge me THIS MUCH for parking and still claim that they lose money?" Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

I have no excitement for this. I have major reservations about a market of 2.5 million with heavily directional sprawl where the only other team in the market runs concurrently and is almost as established as the Church of England, where hockey does not have a long history of success, where the arena has the same NBA-first sightlines that doomed Phoenix in the first place. The only advantage Salt Lake City has over Quebec City is staying on Mountain Time. But the Coyotes have been on life support for 15 years, the league has cockteased four or five different cities now only to keep doubling down on stupid, and every owner since the days of league control has run out of money, not paid taxes, or both. Enough already. I'm old and tired. Just let this end.

You're describing anything the Phoenix Coyotes have done or will ever do as a victory for private enterprise and the free market? Do you ever get tired of carrying your balls around in a wheelbarrow?

Everything around us is getting crappier, meaner, dumber, and more expensive, and I think we're seeing that more than ever in baseball this year. Five years ago, the idea of teams just not having uniform stock would have been unthinkable. So too would have been "I dunno the Sacramento Athletics for a while I guess and then Las Vegas I hope maybe." Everything sucks so bad.

I'd like to see a team use "Salt Lake City" instead of Utah. Not a lot of three-word city names out there, and I think it could prove important to differentiate a more gentile-based following from the very Mormon-based Jazz fanbase: Salt Lake City is now more than just the Mormons (at the expense of becoming Second Denver; the first one is mediocre enough as it is), whereas "Utah," well, less so. Basketball is part of Mormon culture and hockey isn't.

Before Mike Marshall died, I wish more pitchers had taken him up on his unconventional pitching mechanics. I wanted to see if it would work.