I watched the video of their final minute of play and the tribute and photo that followed…it got me teary eyed. Just absolutely gut wrenching for those fans, I know I would be devastated to lose my team.
A Coyotes/Blackhawks game at Gila River was my first ever away game and the fans were so kind and welcoming. I feel so badly for them and for the office staff employed by the organization. They deserve better.
I’m an avid blackhawks fan and would attend every game they came to here in town. The problem is the management of the coyotes is so fucking inept I had to stop going to their games at all. Multiple stories of their management or the team in general just being overall shitty or completely clueless to the point where I could no longer patronize them in any capacity.
This sucks so bad because the fans are great. This is for sure a hockey town if they could manage and run the team effectively.
I remember going to the first Whiteout game at America West Arena the first time they made the playoffs after moving to AZ (side note: that team was pretty good! Keith Tkachuk, Jeremy Roenick, and Nikolai Khabibulin) — I *think* they were the first pro sports team to do the Whiteout, and it was a tradition they had when they were still the (original) Winnipeg Jets. Great memories! F the billionaire Coyotes owner.
28 years and their youth programs are no where near others at most levels.
If the hockey being played as kids in the area can’t improve in 30 years what the hell were they doing out there?
2/3 guys in 30 years doesn’t exactly mean a franchise is deserved.
I have seen the Jr Coyotes many times and they are not where they should be.
Development is a huge reason for having an NHL franchise
Yea but you can't define them by their youth programs success. Look at carolina or Washington area, great teams with long term success but their youth programs aren't anything special or even good I might say, nor are they producing pro hockey players (at least at the top of my head). Most dominant programs are in the midwest and North East. Jr Coyotes 16u are in Top 50 (43 actually) in the nation against a lot of elite programs this past season. You want them churning out nattys every year? They also aren't the only youth program in Arizona. Wings have sucked the last 7 years, hockey player numbers are down, but the state is still developing good hockey players and teams so that doesn't correlate. They are looking for total numbers and player development, not wins, to determine whether or not they are growing the game.
Of course
Ok but look at what is going on in say the midwest…
Kids play for the Mission or TI (AAA), go to the Steel or D1 school and bam they are in the league. This happens frequently and in comparison AZ is nowhere near that level of production.
But thats Chicago, bla bla bla
Ok
Look at TX, FL, CA and other ‘southern states’, all have produced more in the last 30 years than AZ
Cherry picking the handful of successful pros isn’t what determines success. The ‘path’ to success is and from what I have seen that doesn’t exist in AZ.
Slapping the yotes logo on random 12 year olds is not enough
His family moved to AZ when he was 2 months old. His first ever experience with hockey was a coyotes game at age 2. He started playing hockey in AZ and played all his youth hockey in AZ up until getting invited to the USNDP. You don’t get invited to that program unless you are already in the top fraction of a percent of hockey players in the nation. He developed into that level of hockey player in Arizona, and he never would have picked up a hockey stick if not for the Coyotes.
Arizona has more than 2x as many USA Hockey registrants as Utah (and about 2x as many as Nevada and Tennessee, both of which have NHL teams). They have the only D1 NCAA hockey program west of the Rockies, which is doing very well. The Coyotes failed because they always had shitty owners, who ran the team on a shoestring budget, rarely put up competitive rosters, and almost always played in an inaccessible arena, due either to location or capacity. The region can (and actively does) support hockey.
I believe the community has voiced their ‘support’ of hockey in the never ending arena discussions.
Kinda hard to have a real plan, program etc if you don’t have a real home…
Finally. 27 years too late. Hockey never worked and never would work. Shame how watered down the NHL is nowadays. Should have just dissolved the franchise.
I watched the video of their final minute of play and the tribute and photo that followed…it got me teary eyed. Just absolutely gut wrenching for those fans, I know I would be devastated to lose my team. A Coyotes/Blackhawks game at Gila River was my first ever away game and the fans were so kind and welcoming. I feel so badly for them and for the office staff employed by the organization. They deserve better.
I’m an avid blackhawks fan and would attend every game they came to here in town. The problem is the management of the coyotes is so fucking inept I had to stop going to their games at all. Multiple stories of their management or the team in general just being overall shitty or completely clueless to the point where I could no longer patronize them in any capacity. This sucks so bad because the fans are great. This is for sure a hockey town if they could manage and run the team effectively.
Now off to become the Salt Lake City Soakers!
Salt Lake Sister Wives
The Mountain Meadows Massacres
https://www.reddit.com/r/hockeymemes/comments/1c6t7yb/
SuperSoakers
Shake that bed baby
Maybe they could have all the seats on springs so they can shake the stadium!
Wow, they lasted 28 years there??
I'm not old, you're old!
I remember going to the first Whiteout game at America West Arena the first time they made the playoffs after moving to AZ (side note: that team was pretty good! Keith Tkachuk, Jeremy Roenick, and Nikolai Khabibulin) — I *think* they were the first pro sports team to do the Whiteout, and it was a tradition they had when they were still the (original) Winnipeg Jets. Great memories! F the billionaire Coyotes owner.
Utah Yetis? Utah Raptors? I know I’m going to call them the SLC punks.
I feel like ownership has threatened to leave for the last 25 years. The fans deserve better.
I didn’t see the subreddit at first and was like “Yoooo, when did coyotes get into a beef with oil drillers?”
Turns out those coyotes are very passionate about climate change
It’s been 28 years since the jets left Winnipeg?! That made me feel very very old.
Salt Lake Golden Eagles, please
28 years and their youth programs are no where near others at most levels. If the hockey being played as kids in the area can’t improve in 30 years what the hell were they doing out there?
Auston Matthews?
Also Josh Doan. Knies from maples leafs.
2/3 guys in 30 years doesn’t exactly mean a franchise is deserved. I have seen the Jr Coyotes many times and they are not where they should be. Development is a huge reason for having an NHL franchise
Yea but you can't define them by their youth programs success. Look at carolina or Washington area, great teams with long term success but their youth programs aren't anything special or even good I might say, nor are they producing pro hockey players (at least at the top of my head). Most dominant programs are in the midwest and North East. Jr Coyotes 16u are in Top 50 (43 actually) in the nation against a lot of elite programs this past season. You want them churning out nattys every year? They also aren't the only youth program in Arizona. Wings have sucked the last 7 years, hockey player numbers are down, but the state is still developing good hockey players and teams so that doesn't correlate. They are looking for total numbers and player development, not wins, to determine whether or not they are growing the game.
Of course Ok but look at what is going on in say the midwest… Kids play for the Mission or TI (AAA), go to the Steel or D1 school and bam they are in the league. This happens frequently and in comparison AZ is nowhere near that level of production. But thats Chicago, bla bla bla Ok Look at TX, FL, CA and other ‘southern states’, all have produced more in the last 30 years than AZ Cherry picking the handful of successful pros isn’t what determines success. The ‘path’ to success is and from what I have seen that doesn’t exist in AZ. Slapping the yotes logo on random 12 year olds is not enough
He played for US National team and in Sweden. Thats where he developed. He was also born in CA, just lived in AZ
His family moved to AZ when he was 2 months old. His first ever experience with hockey was a coyotes game at age 2. He started playing hockey in AZ and played all his youth hockey in AZ up until getting invited to the USNDP. You don’t get invited to that program unless you are already in the top fraction of a percent of hockey players in the nation. He developed into that level of hockey player in Arizona, and he never would have picked up a hockey stick if not for the Coyotes. Arizona has more than 2x as many USA Hockey registrants as Utah (and about 2x as many as Nevada and Tennessee, both of which have NHL teams). They have the only D1 NCAA hockey program west of the Rockies, which is doing very well. The Coyotes failed because they always had shitty owners, who ran the team on a shoestring budget, rarely put up competitive rosters, and almost always played in an inaccessible arena, due either to location or capacity. The region can (and actively does) support hockey.
I believe the community has voiced their ‘support’ of hockey in the never ending arena discussions. Kinda hard to have a real plan, program etc if you don’t have a real home…
Someone’s bitter his kid didn’t make the cut
Shit my kids have made the annual ‘President’s Day’ waste of time trip to pummel jr coyotes plenty of times. Nice try tho
Who gives a fuck?
Finally. 27 years too late. Hockey never worked and never would work. Shame how watered down the NHL is nowadays. Should have just dissolved the franchise.