Hooligans Sportsbook

Utah Coyotes?

  • Start date •
  • Replies
    38 Replies •
  • Views 606 Views
Follow
Blitty

Blitty

geaux sports
Since
Jan 27, 2010
Messages
24,175
Score
3,153
Tokens
0
Hopefully it’s just temporary, while they build a badass arena in Scottsdale.

utah coyotes
 
I've been following the story. This specific organization is gone, it's not going back to Arizona. The league is flipping the team over to the Jazz owner and pocketing $200M in the process (as a "relocation fee".) Now whether Meruelo manages to get the land and the arena he wants, I don't know, but looks like local politicians want nothing to do with the guy. The league does love the AZ market though, so I think a new expansion team will be back there eventually. Prolly not under Meruelo's ownership though. He seems to have burned too many bridges.

Sad stuff for the fanbase. I've been watching local AZ podcasts for the last week or so and the hosts were incredulous at first, going as far as mocking the reporter (Frank Seravalli) who broke the story. Now they're saying he was "bought" by the NHL to "plant" the story, lol. Sounds like everyone there was in complete denial about their team being in trouble.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.