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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

I really wonder if, even if there was a "Yes" vote, what kind of comical financial issues would arrive going forward and delays? To spend almost nothing on this? I get you are broke, but how serious are you about spending Billions on this project if you spend like 20x less on the campaign than the No side?
Imagine the money they spend on scouting? ROTFL. LIke a Randstad temp worker as head scout.
 
Bettman might have the joy of watching an all-sunbelt final four, but at least he’s getting his Coyotes dreams crushed after all the time, money and embarrassment to the league spent trying to hammer that square peg into a round hole.

And good for the voters of Tempe choosing not to be hosed by the league and the Coyotes’ broke, grifter ownership group.
 
LeafGm said:
Bettman might have the joy of watching an all-sunbelt final four, but at least he’s getting his Coyotes dreams crushed after all the time, money and embarrassment to the league spent trying to hammer that square peg into a round hole.

And good for the voters of Tempe choosing not to be hosed by the league and the Coyotes’ broke, grifter ownership group.
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Tempe is a really odd location for a project like that. Any other suburb made sense. It's wall-to-wall universities and students there. Hence why they are there now in a university arena.
 
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JackBurton said:
Tempe is a really odd location for a project like that. Any other suburb made sense. It's wall-to-wall universities and students there. Hence why they are there now in a university arena.
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And wasn’t the whole excuse for why the Coyotes were a failure in their previous rink that it was out in the suburbs instead of downtown?

How the hell is a new rink in another suburb going to solve anything for them?
 
LeafGm said:
And wasn’t the whole excuse for why the Coyotes were a failure in their previous rink that it was out in the suburbs instead of downtown?

How the hell is a new rink in another suburb going to solve anything for them?
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Yep. It was always said don't put it in the suburbs. I do think a Scottsdale could work for instance. Tempe I don't get at all.
The D-backs are the only MLB team that compares to the Jays for instance in perfect downtown location.
 


Kansas City is locked and ready to go. An underrated sports town and besides the NFL on Sundays, they'd be the only show in town all winter.

I'd be shocked if hockey didn't work there.
 
Yup. I would put them in KC since the arena is hockey suitable for next season as an interim location and field offers from other towns. You're basically telling KC to show me in the Show Me state that they want them to stay. Ticket sales.

That's how you up the ante.
 
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Kansas City is locked and ready to go. An underrated sports town and besides the NFL on Sundays, they'd be the only show in town all winter.

I'd be shocked if hockey didn't work there.
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Kansas City would also be a seamless switch in terms of the current divisions.

Would actually be an improvement, since KC would be a lot closer geographically to all of their central division rivals than Arizona.
 
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I actually got a small epiphany while thinking about Kansas City as a town the Coyotes could move to:

What's the difference between Pittsburgh & Kansas City?

1- Similar population in both cities.
2- Die hard NFL fans with an iconic team.
3- Consistently shitty baseball team.
4- Most importantly: No other show in winter. The NBA doesn't have a franchise in either city.

Kansas City has a large void in winter activities. Besides Sundays and the rare Monday/Thursday night game, Kansas City has no pro sports for 6 or so months out of the year.

I think it's a logical destination.
 
The two US based plug and play arenas are in Houston and Kansas City. Both could and would support hockey, but you would lose a billion dollars in potential expansion fees especially in Houston.

Portland would be an option, but I don't know about the interest there.

Quebec is the obvious Canadian based plug and play arena, but the lack of a corporate base wouldn't help the bottom line.
Although filling up the arena with fans would be no problem unless the owners price them out of range.

Quebec might be better off waiting for Atlanta to fail for a third time.
 
I would guess Houston is the spot for them... last time I went down it was already talked about as the landing spot for the coyotes when they failed for the last time.
 
I'd think NHL is keeping Houston as a fresh expansion. Think of that expansion dollars in a city like that.

Thinking they either move them to a smaller city like affirmationed Kansas City, or they fold them and take bids for new expansion team in Houston.
 
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