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Re: Review: Edmonton @ Arizona (Game #52) [message #829981 is a reply to message #829967 ]	Tue, 20 February 2024 14:39

Adam
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As someone who doesn't care about the success of the Arizona Coyotes and who has no stake in whether they're dragging down the hockey-related revenues of the NHL, I don't care if their building is small or large, empty or full.

I think in part because Winnipeg moved there, people have long cheered for failure in Phoenix, but that team supported the IHL Roadrunners like no other minor league market. There is a good base there, and there's a ton of Canadians in that area too - but between locating the team in stupid places, and 20+ years of terrible management, there's not much reason for anyone to get excited.

And the constant drama about potential move can't be good for the fanbase either. Who wants to get attached to a team that's forever rumoured to be moving away. Especially when your management does crap like illegal extra meetings/fitness testing with prospects - the stupidest crime possible because there's a bunch of people involved who have no reason to keep the secret, and it doesn't change their draft position so the minimal extra intel on the players gives very limited gain. Basically the highest risk, lowest reward infraction they could have chosen to do. Then after losing their top three picks for that, they draft an absolute monster of a kid with a brutal backstory, knowing full well that it would be a controversial pick. They could have bet on someone else with that pick, or they could have figured that was the best chance for their success and just weathered the bad PR storm, but instead they chose the worst course of action for their team and rescinded their pick, meaning that in 2020 they only had a 5th, 6th, and two 7th round picks with zero benefit from the first four picks that they lost.

They're currently 27th in the league once again. In the last 11 seasons, the only time they made the playoffs was 2020 when they were 11th in the West, way back of the playoff cut line when COVID cut short the season. If not for an upset in the play-in round, they wouldn't have been in that year either. Since 1996, there's been only two real playoff series won. JUST TWO IN 27 years! And they both came in 2011-12 when they went to the Conference Finals before losing to the Kings. The team is a disgrace, but it's not the market or the fanbase that should be blamed. And I don't care if they're in Winnipeg, Quebec City, Salt Lake City or Houston. If you suck that hard for that long, you're going to fail to inspire a lot of people to drive an hour late on a Wednesday night in February to watch you play.

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