Wish they chanted something about Meruelo instead of Salt Lake Sucks. Salt Lake City didn't do anything. Meruelo did. Blows to lose my team, but appreciate all the good memories. Made a lot of friends and had a lot of fun watching and going to the games over the years.
As a WInnipegger, who MOVED to Arizona. It hurts to have to see my team move... AGAIN. No I will not be moving to Utah. I feel for the team and the fans, but this was all the owners own doing and they deserved so much better than a college hockey rink.
Only because Glendale City Council wasted more tax dollars propping up the team and the NHL was fool enough to put up with the circus for a lot longer than ANY other pro sports league would have.
Coyotes had more support from their commish than any other franchise in any sport. Despite that, the Coyotes FAILED more than ANY other pro sports franchise, let that sink in.
I went to Notre Dame high school with Liam O'Brien. Morgan Reilly as well, but he was in a different dorm while Liam lived right across the hall from me so we occasionally hung out in the dorms. He is (or "was" now I guess...) known as the "tough guy" for the coyotes, and I know some people say he's not good at it. But he's got a heart of gold as a person and was always super nice to everyone, literally all the time. I'm always happy to see him sticking around the league after so many guys who also looked like they could have made/stayed in the league from that school never did. His hard work and determination to fit his role is paying off. Lol I even still have a pair of the school shorts he gave me after he borrowed mine to go to some tournament cause his were in laundry and ended up ripping mine... Keep up the hard work, Liam!
@@fornhunkle Because it's a very popular cathedral in the Catholic system named for the Virgin Mary, and the schools are Catholic. Technically, the one we went to is called the "Athol Murray College of Notre Dame" as they do post-secondary classes there as well for the Junior A team. Lots of highschools have a bunch of other highschools with the same namesake, be they religion-based or not lol.
Thats cool man I started getting into Hockey because of my local team the Hershey Bears who Liam played for at that time. I used to work security for the Giant Center which is where the Bears play and I got to meet him a couple of times he was a cool dude. I've been rooting for him since he got called up.
Shoutout to Coyotes fans, this has got to be tough to just out right lose your team that you’ve supported for so long. As an Avalanche fan, this will still affect me because we don’t play against the coyotes multiple times a year. Good luck to the Coyotes, and I hope Coyotes fans can have a new team to cheer on. Keep on howling Yotes!
I think the wildest part of all of this is just how quickly the deal to move happened. It seemed like years of radio silence turned into a few weeks of talks and boom, they’re moving. I know a lot of that was behind closed doors so we can’t say for sure but this seemed really fast.
As a Seattleite who watched the Sonics - a team with a major NBA history with a championship banner - get taken away to the new owner's BFE home town under the pretense that the arena just wasn't good enough ... a part of my heart breaks for fans in Phoenix. Stay strong.
I’m a leaf fan from Toronto, but I am currently in grad school in Arizona. I fell in love with this team. There was something about that jersey and the magic of the desert that made me head over heels for the yotes. I nearly cried watching the last game. Hopefully they come back before I’m finished my studies 😢
Never thought I'd hear "Elite Sniper" and Liam O'Brein in the same sentence. Put his bad boy enforcer style away for a bit to be a bad boy sniper for shift. Love to see it
When ownership after ownership have shown their unscrupulous ways to use public money, well, the trust is gone...even with the new group saying that the entire arena/entertainment district would be 100% privately funded. The majority of the voters said, "Enough." Nothing can change that now. Best of luck in SLC.
People need to Watch John Oliver's video about this. Feel bad for Arizona, Oklahoma City, etc. Who lost a team simply because they refused to privately fun their stadiums and refuse to use those profits into the community.
Absolutely devastated over the move. This is was my hometown team my entire childhood and to see it ripped away for the next 5 years is horrible. I have faith Murello will get the land and arena. I dont want him owning the team but he is our only route to getting NHL hockey back in the desert. I will miss this specific team though for sure....
Maybe he will build the arena and sell it and the coyotes rights to another potential owner for some crazy price. Cuz I'm getting the impression the rest of the NHL owners are not going to allow him to be a part of their club. That land auction will still be something to listen out for.
As a ducks going to really miss going to phx once or twice year. It was a great place to take a vacation and watch hockey really enjoyed both arenas and yotes fans
I loved Big Tuna back in hershey one of my favorite players and was so sad to see him go but I'm so glad he's getting to play real minutes in the NHL. I Just wish it could have been with the Caps
There's nothing disbelieving it just wasn't happening in Arizona. Maybe Meruelo can put things together with the auction and eventually have a team for expansion, WaKWaC= Who Knows Who Cares! What about giving Quebec City fans a break. They have the commitment all round, fans, executives and government. If there is expansion or a team transfer give them finally a break!
This reminds me of the Cleveland Browns move. Bad ownership and uncertainty about a new venue induces a move just as a team is on the precipice of turning into a great franchise, and the team name stays. If/when the Coyotes come back, there will be a de facto rivalry with SLC.
I feel bad for the Yotes faithful. All I can personally compare this to is the Sonics relocating to OKC in 2008, and as a Sonics fan, this brings back some bad memories. I hope the Yotes return soon.
I don't feel sorry for Coyote fans in Phoenix in the slightest. That team lasted longer than any other now defunct team since the Second World War, including the Nordiqes, the North Stars, the original Jets, the Whalers. Fans in the Phoenix area had 28 years to show up in large enough quantities to make the team profitable. Gary Bettman gave them more chances than any other team in NHL history.
As a lifelong fan, my parents were season ticket holders from 96 till they moved to Glendale, I was a season ticket holder from 12-16, the hardest part is deciding whether to support the Utah team or pick a new team to root for?
@legotto15 That's what my wife and I are leaning on, since it'll be the roster we know, in theory, we are also waiting to see the team name. Leaning on the Stars otherwise, they are closest to us in the geographic sense.
@@NB3228 if you root for a team other than Salt Lake, at least make it an Eastern Conference team because I think arizona is getting an expansion team in the future. I say root for Montreal. Maybe even Detroit or Columbus
It's sad that it's happened, but it's really not a shock. If anything, it's a surprise this team didn't relocate sooner. The final straw, out of a hell of a lot of straws, to break the camel's back was moving this team to Mullett Arena. We can't sugarcoat the fact that it was not suitable for NHL hockey, and it made the league look unserious and amateurish. And this move to Mullet Arena was predicated on the hope, not a concrete agreement, that a new arena would be constructed. A piece of land wasn't finalized and there was no construction that had started. All we kept hearing was that there's a plan to put an arena complex here or there. Just amateur hour by the NHL.
I feel so bad for the Coyote faithful, I couldn’t imagine where I would be if Mario never kept the Penguins here, hell I don’t know where our city would be sports-wise, I hope hockey returns to Arizona in the near future
As a fan (Sabres) of hockey, this hurt. Seeing all those people who invested almost 30 years into their franchise, that is now woven into the community, just to have it tore out of the fabric all because of shitty management, pains me. I feel for them and I'm sorry, this is just awful.
Utah is getting a team on the rise, they have a bunch of good young players good prospects and tons of draft capitol. The only thing that they were missing was an owner who would spend some cash. This could be an Avs situation where they are a great team RIGHT after arrival for the next decade.
In my opinion the coyotes had the best logo and jerseys in the whole league and seeing this and the team as well go does'nt seem fair and real to me. I won't hate Utah but they can't replace Arizona in my heart and i'm not even an Arizona fan.
Hey, do you know this was Winnipeg's team first. Bettman took it out of Winnipeg because he said it wasn't financially viable. Instead he put in Arizona where the NHL and local governments subsidized it for almost three decades. It was foolish to move the team from Winnipeg. Masive L for Bettman and NHL BoD.
This was long overdue, I feel bad for the fanbase, but bad ownership after bad ownership and Bettman just not accepting it, wasn't working and then the vote against the arena showed it was time to let it go.
The Nordiques coming back would be sick, but QC lost their original team to the language barrier. So many great players refused to sign there because they didn't speak french.
@@Insanity5163 True but if you've ever been to Quebec you could completely get by if you only speak English. I think the main reason now why players aren't going to go there is because it's Canadian in general
@@bigleaguesnipes That's fair, I'm only really going of shit from the 90's-00's. If the NHL expands east then QC should be the obvious favorite, but Gary probably wouldn't like that.
@@Insanity5163 Joe Sakic and Adam Foote loved it there. And I don't believe either of them learned French. Quebec City has done the work to become viable. They have ownership and they have a modern building. They shouldn't continue to be shunned because they have a francophone city or there's already fans.
@@pomerlain8924 I agree, I wasn't trying to say that QC shouldn't get a team just because of the language barrier, I was trying to say that that was a historical reason why people didn't want to play there.
The yotes were given so many chances it was high time the NHL moved on. They have had terrible ownership from day 1 and still they were allowed to remain in the league for almost 30 years. Still do feel bad for the fans who supported all that time, bad owners and management killed this team.
Wait a second. There's a hockey player named Liam O'Brien? That's the same name as the actor who plays Gaara on Naruto, among MANY other roles in other shows! As if the NHL having two guys named Sebastian Aho wasn't enough...
To be fair, this team should have left Arizona far sooner. They have always struggled to make a go of it there and were only hanging on because it was Bettman's "project". I feel bad for the fans, of course, but it's probably about time.
I've followed the Yotes from a distance since day one. My local team that was a big part of my life shut down due to covid and won't be back, which was worse for me personally of course, but it sucks, and I know how the real, local fans feel. I don't think they'll be back, seems like the typical BS story that fans get every time a team moves.
They did this when they moved from Glendale too. The fans never showed up, but when the team leaves its all boo hoo. Sure, there were some die hards, but the fact is that a team in Arizona was a stupid idea from day 0. Square peg round hole. Send them somewhere people care
i moved to Az. in '96 when they got here, i only went to games when my Hawks were here... and that was part of the problem here in Az.Canadian teams Hawks Rangers Flyers Red Wings etc. only those fans went to games and like with the Hawks, downtown, glendale, tempe, it was ALWAYS 3/4 Hawks fans. i remember in '13 my Hawks were here and it was packed with Hawk fans. when the Hawks came out the roar was deafening, when the coyotes came out we booed the hell out of them, sad when you come out on home ice and get booed... instead of salt lake sucks, it should be merlo/giterez sucks, and of course bettman sucks...merlo and getrez didn't have the balls to show up for the last game and face the boos....pusses
A lot of the players and staff stayed on the ice for 40+ minutes after the game ended handing out signed hats and stuff to fans. That’s what’s truly heartbreaking. The players, staff, and fans didn’t deserve this relocation, the franchise ownership did.
I don't get the "Salt Lake sucks" chants. It sucks because it will build an arena and have an owner that will pay the bills??? That chant seems misdirected.
I recall that True North had a deal in place to purchase the Coyotes in 2011, and then the city of Glendale voted to subsidize keeping the team for another year, and so True North moved on to the Thrashers. So this whole thing could have been squashed 13 years ago if Glendale had simply chosen to let go.
Wow they managed to fill a small arena a Canadian 20k population town would fill for semi pro hockey in their last NHL game! Maybe just maybe it was a shit market to start with...
I dont get how you were in doubt. Bettmen was forcing an impossibility. If a Canadian team had been in the Yotes situation they'd be forcibly relocated. I dont blame the fans, Yotes fans are amazing. But the org got so many passes that no non desert team would get. I want to see an eventual return, but it should not be priority. Give QC their team first.
Arizona has a higher population, more chances in profits and a clear established goal if they return, Lower taxes, not gouging off Montreal. It makes way more sense for it to come back to Arizona. The reality is that QC is the last place that the NHL probably wants to expand to right now. Atlanta, Salt Lake, Arizona, Houston will all probably happen before QC sadly.
@@lukefantini9770 But I think that there is a misconception that Quebec City would steal Montreal fans but Quebec city still has half a million population and has many nearly the whole city as supporters they will be fine. As well as a proven hockey mark that has a rich history which Arizona/Phoenix and Atlanta don't have. Quebec City Deserves a second chance way more than anybody else!
@@bigleaguesnipes Im not denying that QC has a deeply passionate fanbase. Just from a business perspective Gary aint gonna do it out the goodness of his own heart. He wants profits and sadly a lot of factors go against Canadian teams right now.
yeah the NHL wants a team in Arizona, and it makes complete sense. Despite what alot of fans think, its not all about how many fans in the stands. The biggest media market for the NHL.
The irony that Shane doan only spent his rookie season with the Jets, and now his son is only spending his rookie season with the Yotes (even though I think he will still count as one next year)
Every time I think I’m over it a new thing pops up and I get sad and frustrated all over again 💔. I jokingly posted a story saying it would be funny if all the fans pooled their money and beat murello in a land auction bid 😂😂😂. Fun fact that mom season ticket holder, I played with both of her sons. Really fucking sad.
If Alex Mereulo is actually able to build a new stadium for the New Yotes the league needs to buy him out the moment the stadium is ready, he didn't pay his bills in Glendale and completely flubbed the Tempe idea by not doing more community reach out. Bettman needs to talk with the owners of the Suns, Cardinals, and Diamondbacks and see if one of them will bite or even join together because AM is not the answer, unless the answer is a franchise that becomes a cap dumping ground.
These Hartford and Quebec City preachers were cheering on a Coyotes move from Arizona, and now that its Salt Lake City, they are like no, not that. It's hilarious that the Coyotes should leave Arizona people are just now unhappy because of where they are relocating. Maybe you'll think twice about relocations next time huh.
@@Insanity5163 in hockey yes. But those who watch hockey likely watch football 🏈, baseball, football ⚽ basketball, where this kinda thing happens frequently too. I'm not even from the states and this didn't surprise me. The yotes themselves are a team that used to be a different team.
@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 I am also from the states and it happens rarely there too. Football is a bad example, since the NFL follows the money, but even then there was a near 20 year gap before the Rams moved out of St. Louis to the prior relocation Basketball also follows the money, but even then the last major relocation was over two decades ago when the Sonics became the OKC Thunder. Baseball is experiencing its first relocation in almost two decades with the A's moving to Vegas, but even then shit teams like mine, the Rockies, are still under no threat. Relocation is happening less and less, but even with that teams relocating absolutely sucks for younger folks who actually grew attached to the team they were follwing.
@@Insanity5163 yeah it's a shame. But it doesn't mean they can't stop supporting the new team when they move to Utah. They're not that far away. Unlike the yotes themselves which used to be the jets....
i'm canadian born. but idgaf if quebec or another canadian city gets a team in the future or not. what i'm amazed is that ari-zo-na was able to have the coyotes for 27 seasons. with all the failed ownerships, pylon teams, fiascos (unpaid bills, toxic work environment) and indifferent support both at the arena and when it came time to find a permanent home. loved how the idiot meruelo didn't make much of an effort when it came time to promote the tempe arena and then it got voted down. the nhl owning the team for 4 years was pathetic, because nobody during that time wanted to buy the team. if the idiot nhl decides to give arizona another shot, at least vet a person who is competent and can actually run a franchise. doesn't surprise me one bit that meruelo is going to be allowed to be the owner again, if there is a nhl-approved arena built in the phoenix area within 5 years. 💩
I think hockey could sell in the southern US, Arizona is a smaller but comparable market to somewhere like Tampa, lots of retirees and snowbirds. I think the issue is, like you said, failed ownership. I wonder how things would've been different if the yotes made a cup run like Tampa or Dallas did.
@@Insanity5163as someone from az. I just want a good owner that cares. And A lot of people are not born here. It’s a lot of people moving from colder states
It wasn't heartbreaking at all. This team has been a stain on the league since it's inception. Brutal ownership and management has plagued this team consistently. The seats are empty most nights and they had zero viewership numbers. I feel for the couple thousand fans of the team, but that's obviously not enough for an NHL team.
Even if they get a new arena built in Arizona I don't think the fans will ever trust this ownership group after the way they were treated. The yotes need new ownership.
I really don't care that the Jets 2.0 are gone (maybe), the Jets 3.0 are where they belong and are very enjoyable to watch. Just a shame that so many Canadian players were on the Jets 2.0 and are now looking for a job.
man i bash on the coyotes a ton just as jokes mainly im a sabres fan not like i have a team to really brag about lol but i actually hate this, and really feel for coyotes fans, i sure never ever wanna lose my sabres. that’s definitely tough man:/
Good riddance to the Arizona Coyotes. Fan support was never there in Phoenix. Best business decision in the teams history by allowing the team to relocate to Salt Lake City. Fans around the league won't miss Arizona Coyotes either, so feeling is mutual.
It's definitely sad, but also kind of a relief in a way. We've all known that the Coyotes moving was inevitable for the last 3-5 years. Blame whoever you want but the Yotes were a total embarrassment to the league playing in an arena the same size as an OHL teams...
What other choice was there in this case ? They didn't have a real arena to play in and wasn't going to have one for a while. They were an embarrassment for the league.
@@Atreusz They were playing in a 6,000 seat College Arena, and they couldn't even sell out that. Junior Hockey Teams like the London Knights draw in more fans than that, selling out their 9,000 seat arena every home game
@coastaku1954 And where is the problem now? The team belongs to the city, is cruel if they move now. Try this in Europe with football, the city would burn.
@@Atreusz The problem is they're INCREDIBLY in the red. They would have been bankrupt several times over, they even went through bankruptcy once, if it wasn't for other teams bailing them out for years.
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Wish they chanted something about Meruelo instead of Salt Lake Sucks. Salt Lake City didn't do anything. Meruelo did. Blows to lose my team, but appreciate all the good memories. Made a lot of friends and had a lot of fun watching and going to the games over the years.
"Salt Lake stole my baby!" 😂
I was at a watch party outside the arena and we all chanted fuck meruelo
@@quiksilver259heard the outside watch parties were disbanded, was it because of this? 😂
@@eumenides5011no they were doing it in the parking garage adjacent to the arena and security kicked them out
We or at least I hate Ryan Smith cause it seems he was pushing for the coyotes to get the boot which is rude
As a WInnipegger, who MOVED to Arizona. It hurts to have to see my team move... AGAIN. No I will not be moving to Utah. I feel for the team and the fans, but this was all the owners own doing and they deserved so much better than a college hockey rink.
Sad days for us az fans
@@revan5293 Yeah, all 3 of them
Bro you gotta move to Utah… things come in threes so if you move there guaranteed they’ll leave again
You can go back rooting for the Jets.
At least the team will be back in hockey country.
The coyotes spent longer in Arizona then the original Jets were in Winnipeg...let that sink in
Only because Glendale City Council wasted more tax dollars propping up the team and the NHL was fool enough to put up with the circus for a lot longer than ANY other pro sports league would have.
That's how committed the NHL owners are to forcing hockey down Americans throats.
At this point the current Jets have spent longer in Winnipeg than the Thrashers were a team, let that sink in.
Coyotes had more support from their commish than any other franchise in any sport. Despite that, the Coyotes FAILED more than ANY other pro sports franchise, let that sink in.
I went to Notre Dame high school with Liam O'Brien. Morgan Reilly as well, but he was in a different dorm while Liam lived right across the hall from me so we occasionally hung out in the dorms.
He is (or "was" now I guess...) known as the "tough guy" for the coyotes, and I know some people say he's not good at it. But he's got a heart of gold as a person and was always super nice to everyone, literally all the time. I'm always happy to see him sticking around the league after so many guys who also looked like they could have made/stayed in the league from that school never did. His hard work and determination to fit his role is paying off.
Lol I even still have a pair of the school shorts he gave me after he borrowed mine to go to some tournament cause his were in laundry and ended up ripping mine...
Keep up the hard work, Liam!
Why the fuck are there so many Notre Dame highschools? It's like a chain restaurant...
@@fornhunkle Because it's a very popular cathedral in the Catholic system named for the Virgin Mary, and the schools are Catholic. Technically, the one we went to is called the "Athol Murray College of Notre Dame" as they do post-secondary classes there as well for the Junior A team. Lots of highschools have a bunch of other highschools with the same namesake, be they religion-based or not lol.
Thats cool man I started getting into Hockey because of my local team the Hershey Bears who Liam played for at that time. I used to work security for the Giant Center which is where the Bears play and I got to meet him a couple of times he was a cool dude. I've been rooting for him since he got called up.
As an Oakland A's fan, I weep for you Yote's fans as well. No fan base deserves this.
Wishing you guys luck on your last season in Oakland! Also, Moneyball slaps
RIP Matthews to Arizona hopes.
The one game where they actually filled the stadium
Even then you still see open seats
Shoutout to Coyotes fans, this has got to be tough to just out right lose your team that you’ve supported for so long. As an Avalanche fan, this will still affect me because we don’t play against the coyotes multiple times a year. Good luck to the Coyotes, and I hope Coyotes fans can have a new team to cheer on. Keep on howling Yotes!
I live in CO now, so I’m probably gonna become a Golden Knights for the Desert Vibes or embrace the Rocky Mountains with the Avalanche
I think the wildest part of all of this is just how quickly the deal to move happened. It seemed like years of radio silence turned into a few weeks of talks and boom, they’re moving. I know a lot of that was behind closed doors so we can’t say for sure but this seemed really fast.
Apparently, Bettman and Daly presented Murello with the sale proposal on March 6.
As a Seattleite who watched the Sonics - a team with a major NBA history with a championship banner - get taken away to the new owner's BFE home town under the pretense that the arena just wasn't good enough ... a part of my heart breaks for fans in Phoenix. Stay strong.
I’m a leaf fan from Toronto, but I am currently in grad school in Arizona. I fell in love with this team. There was something about that jersey and the magic of the desert that made me head over heels for the yotes. I nearly cried watching the last game. Hopefully they come back before I’m finished my studies 😢
I know how they felt. This happened to my family when the Rams left St. Louis.
Never thought I'd hear "Elite Sniper" and Liam O'Brein in the same sentence. Put his bad boy enforcer style away for a bit to be a bad boy sniper for shift. Love to see it
As an Oilers fan, even I was sad to see them go 🥺
Went to a few games down there while traveling. I can.
When ownership after ownership have shown their unscrupulous ways to use public money, well, the trust is gone...even with the new group saying that the entire arena/entertainment district would be 100% privately funded. The majority of the voters said, "Enough." Nothing can change that now.
Best of luck in SLC.
It is just a shame that NHL teams are adversely affected by NFL and MLB screwing tax payers for decades.
It’s always publicly funded til they realize you’re done with their bull shit then they all of a sudden do it privately.
People need to Watch John Oliver's video about this. Feel bad for Arizona, Oklahoma City, etc. Who lost a team simply because they refused to privately fun their stadiums and refuse to use those profits into the community.
Absolutely devastated over the move. This is was my hometown team my entire childhood and to see it ripped away for the next 5 years is horrible. I have faith Murello will get the land and arena. I dont want him owning the team but he is our only route to getting NHL hockey back in the desert. I will miss this specific team though for sure....
Maybe he will build the arena and sell it and the coyotes rights to another potential owner for some crazy price. Cuz I'm getting the impression the rest of the NHL owners are not going to allow him to be a part of their club. That land auction will still be something to listen out for.
As a ducks going to really miss going to phx once or twice year. It was a great place to take a vacation and watch hockey really enjoyed both arenas and yotes fans
I loved Big Tuna back in hershey one of my favorite players and was so sad to see him go but I'm so glad he's getting to play real minutes in the NHL. I Just wish it could have been with the Caps
This will help bring hockey back to AZ for sure.
There's nothing disbelieving it just wasn't happening in Arizona. Maybe Meruelo can put things together with the auction and eventually have a team for expansion, WaKWaC= Who Knows Who Cares! What about giving Quebec City fans a break. They have the commitment all round, fans, executives and government. If there is expansion or a team transfer give them finally a break!
As a Seattle Sonics fan i understand your pain
Gonna miss the desert dogs.
This reminds me of the Cleveland Browns move. Bad ownership and uncertainty about a new venue induces a move just as a team is on the precipice of turning into a great franchise, and the team name stays. If/when the Coyotes come back, there will be a de facto rivalry with SLC.
I feel bad for the Yotes faithful. All I can personally compare this to is the Sonics relocating to OKC in 2008, and as a Sonics fan, this brings back some bad memories. I hope the Yotes return soon.
I don't feel sorry for Coyote fans in Phoenix in the slightest. That team lasted longer than any other now defunct team since the Second World War, including the Nordiqes, the North Stars, the original Jets, the Whalers. Fans in the Phoenix area had 28 years to show up in large enough quantities to make the team profitable. Gary Bettman gave them more chances than any other team in NHL history.
As a lifelong fan, my parents were season ticket holders from 96 till they moved to Glendale, I was a season ticket holder from 12-16, the hardest part is deciding whether to support the Utah team or pick a new team to root for?
Me personally i would support the utah team
@legotto15 That's what my wife and I are leaning on, since it'll be the roster we know, in theory, we are also waiting to see the team name.
Leaning on the Stars otherwise, they are closest to us in the geographic sense.
@@NB3228 if you root for a team other than Salt Lake, at least make it an Eastern Conference team because I think arizona is getting an expansion team in the future. I say root for Montreal. Maybe even Detroit or Columbus
It's sad that it's happened, but it's really not a shock. If anything, it's a surprise this team didn't relocate sooner. The final straw, out of a hell of a lot of straws, to break the camel's back was moving this team to Mullett Arena. We can't sugarcoat the fact that it was not suitable for NHL hockey, and it made the league look unserious and amateurish. And this move to Mullet Arena was predicated on the hope, not a concrete agreement, that a new arena would be constructed. A piece of land wasn't finalized and there was no construction that had started. All we kept hearing was that there's a plan to put an arena complex here or there. Just amateur hour by the NHL.
Honestly heartbreaking end to such an amazing season.
Nice Mooseheads arena at the close!
Sad to c them go, but exciter for a “new” team in Utah
Fuck Utah
I feel so bad for the Coyote faithful, I couldn’t imagine where I would be if Mario never kept the Penguins here, hell I don’t know where our city would be sports-wise, I hope hockey returns to Arizona in the near future
As a fan (Sabres) of hockey, this hurt. Seeing all those people who invested almost 30 years into their franchise, that is now woven into the community, just to have it tore out of the fabric all because of shitty management, pains me. I feel for them and I'm sorry, this is just awful.
Utah is getting a team on the rise, they have a bunch of good young players good prospects and tons of draft capitol. The only thing that they were missing was an owner who would spend some cash. This could be an Avs situation where they are a great team RIGHT after arrival for the next decade.
In my opinion the coyotes had the best logo and jerseys in the whole league and seeing this and the team as well go does'nt seem fair and real to me. I won't hate Utah but they can't replace Arizona in my heart and i'm not even an Arizona fan.
The NHL will be back in Arizona, it's a huge TV market, also see Atlanta, Minnesota, Winnipeg, etc.
Hey, do you know this was Winnipeg's team first. Bettman took it out of Winnipeg because he said it wasn't financially viable.
Instead he put in Arizona where the NHL and local governments subsidized it for almost three decades. It was foolish to move the team from Winnipeg. Masive L for Bettman and NHL BoD.
this should have happened a decade ago. joke of a franchise.
Yotes did this final one with deserved blaze of glory. Sorry for the fans. Little else is to be said. I hope AZ gets a team sooner or later. ❤
as a kid I had my north stars taken from me when I was in 5th grade feel bad for the fans in Arizona
This was long overdue, I feel bad for the fanbase, but bad ownership after bad ownership and Bettman just not accepting it, wasn't working and then the vote against the arena showed it was time to let it go.
If AZ ever come back I believe that Quebec City deserves another chance as well. But they probably wont.
The Nordiques coming back would be sick, but QC lost their original team to the language barrier. So many great players refused to sign there because they didn't speak french.
@@Insanity5163 True but if you've ever been to Quebec you could completely get by if you only speak English. I think the main reason now why players aren't going to go there is because it's Canadian in general
@@bigleaguesnipes That's fair, I'm only really going of shit from the 90's-00's. If the NHL expands east then QC should be the obvious favorite, but Gary probably wouldn't like that.
@@Insanity5163 Joe Sakic and Adam Foote loved it there. And I don't believe either of them learned French. Quebec City has done the work to become viable. They have ownership and they have a modern building. They shouldn't continue to be shunned because they have a francophone city or there's already fans.
@@pomerlain8924 I agree, I wasn't trying to say that QC shouldn't get a team just because of the language barrier, I was trying to say that that was a historical reason why people didn't want to play there.
The yotes were given so many chances it was high time the NHL moved on. They have had terrible ownership from day 1 and still they were allowed to remain in the league for almost 30 years. Still do feel bad for the fans who supported all that time, bad owners and management killed this team.
NHL bracket challenge when?
Connor Ingram is awesome and I will continue to support him and the boys in SLC whether I like it or not
Wait a second.
There's a hockey player named Liam O'Brien?
That's the same name as the actor who plays Gaara on Naruto, among MANY other roles in other shows!
As if the NHL having two guys named Sebastian Aho wasn't enough...
Good Riddance. Goodbye Coyotes. Don’t come back.
Utah i'm happy as hell for them.. i just feel sad for Arizona.
Very sad. I truly feel for all the Coyotes fans out there. I hope you guys get a team back some day soon!
To be fair, this team should have left Arizona far sooner. They have always struggled to make a go of it there and were only hanging on because it was Bettman's "project". I feel bad for the fans, of course, but it's probably about time.
And the Coyotes got so many chances, compared to the original Jets, the Nordiques and Whalers.
I've followed the Yotes from a distance since day one. My local team that was a big part of my life shut down due to covid and won't be back, which was worse for me personally of course, but it sucks, and I know how the real, local fans feel. I don't think they'll be back, seems like the typical BS story that fans get every time a team moves.
They did this when they moved from Glendale too. The fans never showed up, but when the team leaves its all boo hoo. Sure, there were some die hards, but the fact is that a team in Arizona was a stupid idea from day 0. Square peg round hole. Send them somewhere people care
i moved to Az. in '96 when they got here, i only went to games when my Hawks were here... and that was part of the problem here in Az.Canadian teams Hawks Rangers Flyers Red Wings etc. only those fans went to games and like with the Hawks, downtown, glendale, tempe, it was ALWAYS 3/4 Hawks fans. i remember in '13 my Hawks were here and it was packed with Hawk fans. when the Hawks came out the roar was deafening, when the coyotes came out we booed the hell out of them, sad when you come out on home ice and get booed... instead of salt lake sucks, it should be merlo/giterez sucks, and of course bettman sucks...merlo and getrez didn't have the balls to show up for the last game and face the boos....pusses
I feel bad for the fans, but the writing has been on the wall for a little while.
They deserved better from the ownership & Phoenix/Glendale.
A lot of the players and staff stayed on the ice for 40+ minutes after the game ended handing out signed hats and stuff to fans. That’s what’s truly heartbreaking. The players, staff, and fans didn’t deserve this relocation, the franchise ownership did.
You can't believe a team that has had relocation rumours since 2009 is relocating?
It's not that no one saw this coming, it's more the people who did latch on have to cope with the team leaving.
definitely done for the title.
ever heard of a figure of speech, or do you just like being a prick?
@@Insanity5163 So three people?
@@coastaku1954hilarious, truly a one of a kind joke
I don't get the "Salt Lake sucks" chants. It sucks because it will build an arena and have an owner that will pay the bills??? That chant seems misdirected.
Damn, I feel bod for Arazona fans. Cant imagine losing your team. Brutal 😟
I am sad
Yotes go Yeet, you had your team and franchise and you've squandered it. Get over it!
Well, I’ll believe it when I see it for whatever Meruelo has planned for the coyotes
Rest in peace Coyotes
As an az fan I am sad. I just want an owner that cares
New team name: Utah Disco!
The Salt Lake Trout will have a good team--the team name is unique and will sell a lot of merchandise
To be honest...... The team should have moved back to Winnipeg years ago
I recall that True North had a deal in place to purchase the Coyotes in 2011, and then the city of Glendale voted to subsidize keeping the team for another year, and so True North moved on to the Thrashers. So this whole thing could have been squashed 13 years ago if Glendale had simply chosen to let go.
I don't understand why they didn't just move in with the Suns in Footprint Arena.
This is the flaw in American sports no promotion or relegation just a big cash making monopoly that doesn't care about the fans
Wow they managed to fill a small arena a Canadian 20k population town would fill for semi pro hockey in their last NHL game!
Maybe just maybe it was a shit market to start with...
I dont get how you were in doubt. Bettmen was forcing an impossibility. If a Canadian team had been in the Yotes situation they'd be forcibly relocated. I dont blame the fans, Yotes fans are amazing. But the org got so many passes that no non desert team would get. I want to see an eventual return, but it should not be priority. Give QC their team first.
Arizona has a higher population, more chances in profits and a clear established goal if they return, Lower taxes, not gouging off Montreal. It makes way more sense for it to come back to Arizona. The reality is that QC is the last place that the NHL probably wants to expand to right now. Atlanta, Salt Lake, Arizona, Houston will all probably happen before QC sadly.
@@lukefantini9770 But I think that there is a misconception that Quebec City would steal Montreal fans but Quebec city still has half a million population and has many nearly the whole city as supporters they will be fine. As well as a proven hockey mark that has a rich history which Arizona/Phoenix and Atlanta don't have. Quebec City Deserves a second chance way more than anybody else!
@@bigleaguesnipes Im not denying that QC has a deeply passionate fanbase. Just from a business perspective Gary aint gonna do it out the goodness of his own heart. He wants profits and sadly a lot of factors go against Canadian teams right now.
yeah the NHL wants a team in Arizona, and it makes complete sense. Despite what alot of fans think, its not all about how many fans in the stands. The biggest media market for the NHL.
@@lukefantini9770 even more reason for it to go to QC. They had all the advantages and still failed
Will they become Utah Yodledogs????
The irony that Shane doan only spent his rookie season with the Jets, and now his son is only spending his rookie season with the Yotes (even though I think he will still count as one next year)
This sucks. I kind of liked the Coyotes. I saw them when they came to Australia. I feel for the fans. Is getting a team back even a realistic hope?
It’s been a sad year growlers gone coyotes relocated
Every time I think I’m over it a new thing pops up and I get sad and frustrated all over again 💔. I jokingly posted a story saying it would be funny if all the fans pooled their money and beat murello in a land auction bid 😂😂😂. Fun fact that mom season ticket holder, I played with both of her sons. Really fucking sad.
The trail of horrible owners and politicians is just a black eye on a good fan base.
If Alex Mereulo is actually able to build a new stadium for the New Yotes the league needs to buy him out the moment the stadium is ready, he didn't pay his bills in Glendale and completely flubbed the Tempe idea by not doing more community reach out. Bettman needs to talk with the owners of the Suns, Cardinals, and Diamondbacks and see if one of them will bite or even join together because AM is not the answer, unless the answer is a franchise that becomes a cap dumping ground.
These Hartford and Quebec City preachers were cheering on a Coyotes move from Arizona, and now that its Salt Lake City, they are like no, not that. It's hilarious that the Coyotes should leave Arizona people are just now unhappy because of where they are relocating. Maybe you'll think twice about relocations next time huh.
Happens all the time in the states....don't know why people are suddenly so surprised
For the record, it has been over 15 years since the last relocation so a lot of younger fans have probably never seen this before
@@Insanity5163 in hockey yes. But those who watch hockey likely watch football 🏈, baseball, football ⚽ basketball, where this kinda thing happens frequently too. I'm not even from the states and this didn't surprise me. The yotes themselves are a team that used to be a different team.
@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 I am also from the states and it happens rarely there too.
Football is a bad example, since the NFL follows the money, but even then there was a near 20 year gap before the Rams moved out of St. Louis to the prior relocation
Basketball also follows the money, but even then the last major relocation was over two decades ago when the Sonics became the OKC Thunder.
Baseball is experiencing its first relocation in almost two decades with the A's moving to Vegas, but even then shit teams like mine, the Rockies, are still under no threat.
Relocation is happening less and less, but even with that teams relocating absolutely sucks for younger folks who actually grew attached to the team they were follwing.
@@Insanity5163 yeah it's a shame. But it doesn't mean they can't stop supporting the new team when they move to Utah. They're not that far away. Unlike the yotes themselves which used to be the jets....
@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 SLC to Pheonix is an 11 hour drive
its like the least surprising thing the nhl ever did
Playing in the desert > playing for the Mormons
what the fuck do mormons have to do with it? I'll watch hockey regardless of the city or state
not everyone in Utah is Mormon you know?
I don’t think they will make much selling beer and caffeinated drinks
I don’t know if I’m related Liam O’Brien but my last name is O’Brien And I’m from Nova Scotia
This franchise lost the league millions of dollars a month for over 20 years. This was so so so so so overdue it’s not even close.
I can believe a hockey team is leaving Phoenix, Arizona. It seems pretty disingenuous to hear anyone say they can’t.
i'm canadian born. but idgaf if quebec or another canadian city gets a team in the future or not.
what i'm amazed is that ari-zo-na was able to have the coyotes for 27 seasons. with all the failed ownerships, pylon teams, fiascos (unpaid bills, toxic work environment) and indifferent support both at the arena and when it came time to find a permanent home. loved how the idiot meruelo didn't make much of an effort when it came time to promote the tempe arena and then it got voted down.
the nhl owning the team for 4 years was pathetic, because nobody during that time wanted to buy the team.
if the idiot nhl decides to give arizona another shot, at least vet a person who is competent and can actually run a franchise. doesn't surprise me one bit that meruelo is going to be allowed to be the owner again, if there is a nhl-approved arena built in the phoenix area within 5 years. 💩
I think hockey could sell in the southern US, Arizona is a smaller but comparable market to somewhere like Tampa, lots of retirees and snowbirds. I think the issue is, like you said, failed ownership. I wonder how things would've been different if the yotes made a cup run like Tampa or Dallas did.
@@Insanity5163as someone from az. I just want a good owner that cares. And A lot of people are not born here. It’s a lot of people moving from colder states
@@Insanity5163 Hockey just doesn't work in the south, not unless you make it fun like Vegas did
@@revan5293 I get that man, I've followed a couple teams with garbage ownership but never enough to think relocation is a good idea. My condolences.
@@coastaku1954bait
Not Utahs fault😭😭😭😭😭😭
If the coyotes had no o choose where to move it should've be to Houston not utah. I didn't even salt lake existed.
The jets will move to pheonix in a few years
It wasn't heartbreaking at all. This team has been a stain on the league since it's inception. Brutal ownership and management has plagued this team consistently. The seats are empty most nights and they had zero viewership numbers. I feel for the couple thousand fans of the team, but that's obviously not enough for an NHL team.
Even if they get a new arena built in Arizona I don't think the fans will ever trust this ownership group after the way they were treated. The yotes need new ownership.
I’m really gonna miss the loudest arena in the NHL…….when the away team scores 😂😂😂
I really don't care that the Jets 2.0 are gone (maybe), the Jets 3.0 are where they belong and are very enjoyable to watch. Just a shame that so many Canadian players were on the Jets 2.0 and are now looking for a job.
man i bash on the coyotes a ton just as jokes mainly im a sabres fan not like i have a team to really brag about lol but i actually hate this, and really feel for coyotes fans, i sure never ever wanna lose my sabres. that’s definitely tough man:/
Good riddance to the Arizona Coyotes. Fan support was never there in Phoenix. Best business decision in the teams history by allowing the team to relocate to Salt Lake City. Fans around the league won't miss Arizona Coyotes either, so feeling is mutual.
It's definitely sad, but also kind of a relief in a way.
We've all known that the Coyotes moving was inevitable for the last 3-5 years.
Blame whoever you want but the Yotes were a total embarrassment to the league playing in an arena the same size as an OHL teams...
Maybe start with an WNBA team and see if you can keep them.
Did this video really refer to Liam O’Brien as “elite sniper”? He only scored 5 goals this season 😂
EDMONTON VS LOS ANGLES!!!
Sad Woof
Norm Green Sucks!
Relocation. the biggest joke in US sports 🤣🤣🤣 🤣
Losing extra to get the best players is just as stupid 🤣🤣🤣
What other choice was there in this case ? They didn't have a real arena to play in and wasn't going to have one for a while. They were an embarrassment for the league.
@nicolasgarant9124 Where do they currently play? a team belongs to a City, to the Fans.
@@Atreusz They were playing in a 6,000 seat College Arena, and they couldn't even sell out that. Junior Hockey Teams like the London Knights draw in more fans than that, selling out their 9,000 seat arena every home game
@coastaku1954 And where is the problem now? The team belongs to the city, is cruel if they move now. Try this in Europe with football, the city would burn.
@@Atreusz The problem is they're INCREDIBLY in the red. They would have been bankrupt several times over, they even went through bankruptcy once, if it wasn't for other teams bailing them out for years.