He's not wrong. That franchise was always irrelevant from the minute it arrived in Phoenix and was shoehorned into a basketball arena. It only survived as long as it did because Bettman moved heaven and earth to keep it solvent. He didn't work half as hard to keep the Jets in Winnipeg before...
The fact that the banner was chucked into a dumpster and not quietly stolen by someone working at the arena tells you all you ever needed to know about just how little hockey matters in AZ. The guy who binned it probably had no idea that the banner had any monetary value and likely had no clue...
This franchise adopted a loser mentality the minute they no longer had to compete with the Nordiques for fans. They didn't put their foot back on the gas pedal until HuGo showed up.
He made an important distinction when rating the players. He was ranking them based on where they would be on the depth chart of a Cup winning team, not a random mediocre or shitty team.
Is Suzuki a #1 center in the NHL? Yes. Is he a #1 center on a Cup winner? Probably not.