Alex Meruelo Abandoning Arizona

Alex Meruelo Abandoning Arizona | Jeff Marek Show

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Ай бұрын

PHNX Sports' Craig Morgan joins Jeff Marek to discuss Alex Meruelo abandoning his efforts to reactivate the franchise.
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@Viracocha785 Ай бұрын

Moving to Glendale was the biggest mistake for that organization. Should have went to the east valley when they left the Arena, would have been a success.

@powxchris Ай бұрын

Craig is the man, the whole PHNX sports team down here does an awesome job.

@soxbearshwks8988 Ай бұрын

pussmorgan and his puppets

@stephencruse6525 Ай бұрын

He’s a clown

@ElmerFudd16 Ай бұрын

He's a clown hack who was constantly pushing BS narratives, claiming the team was anything besides the embarrassing joke they always were.

@soxbearshwks8988 Ай бұрын

@@ElmerFudd16 EXACTLY. pussmorgan isn't on merlos payroll anymore and now he's bashing him, what a scum hypocrite he is...

@soxbearshwks8988 Ай бұрын

@@ElmerFudd16 EXACTLY

@valitsemllaluokanavahyvaks3556 Ай бұрын

Meruelo being out is a literal blessing to Arizona. Meruelo with a team is more painful than no team :DD.

@gablefisk-govphost817 Ай бұрын

Somewhat off topic, but Merulo is also planning to move the Tucson AHL team to Reno....just 40 miles from where an ECHL team will be starting up this Fall. The man knows how to pick 'em.

@kj6446 Ай бұрын

last year, reportedly the Coyotes were "worth" 500 million....the league paid 1.2 billion, apparently with the condition Meruelo not resell his rights in the "dormant" franchise. Meruelo is laughing all to the bank.

@soxbearshwks8988 16 күн бұрын

EXACTLY

@FAITHandLOGIC Ай бұрын

This team was killed in 2003 when they moved them to Glendale.

@antoniophx99 Ай бұрын

more like the crappy owners they had over years...

@SS-iv7wv Ай бұрын

No it died when it moved from Winnipeg in 96. Team was never supported whether it was in American Airlines West Arena or Jobing Stadium, didn't matter nobody went to the games. The NHL doesn't deserve that kind of putrid support. Give Phoenix an ECHL team that draws like 4000 and they can go back to Mullet Stadium.

@FischerFan Ай бұрын

@@antoniophx99 It began with a complete lack of foresight by building the arena in Glendale. The corporate folk in Scottsdale were not going to support the team that far removed. The novelty of hockey quickly wore off the moment the team kept failing to make the playoffs. This exposed just how much of a fan base the market truly had. No owner was able to break even, let alone make a profit, by operating the Coyotes.

@SylveonMujigaeOfficial Ай бұрын

This was literally just the Thrashers dragged on for another decade…

@stevekay6895 26 күн бұрын

Not negotiating better with Glendale was the first sign that this was inevitable.

@Heavymetalpunk Ай бұрын

I am very happy with this news, but, I’m still moving with the team to Utah. I never liked this owner and he proved how awful he was

@Furens Ай бұрын

AM bought the franchise for like $300M and sold it for $1.2B. So as Craig Morgan said, this is a man who has made his fortune buying distressed assets. AM did exactly what he meant to do here and anyone who thinks he actually cared about the city or franchise is nuts.

@JaredLS10 Ай бұрын

Yup, AM long conned the NHL and fleeced them for millions.

@SharkFin87 Ай бұрын

4:17 perfectly stated. Exactly.

@ronpeacock9939 Ай бұрын

I think Jeff put it the way it appears.. Alex is not innocent but the politicans were not playing ball either... The fans lose. Goodbye Coyotes.

@jackmakackov7077 Ай бұрын

If you pay me five times what something is worth, I will gladly take the money and run.

@MrTAFSIYNOT Ай бұрын

Demolish the blight Mereulo, and start fresh with a dedicated owner, who is willing to put together a competitive team, in downtown Phoenix, not anywhere along the 101, please. Spend money, don't be a cheapskate like Meruelo. Matt Ishbia has the potential to get it done!

@assassssasa Ай бұрын

Alex Meruelo will go down as one of the worst sports owners in the history of sports

@666mathew Ай бұрын

"Hold my beer!" - Jefferey Loria

@shanewilson8728 Ай бұрын

Harold Ballard and Peter Pocklington will go in history as the worst sports owners .

@hughjass1044 Ай бұрын

I'm not sure how the league is going to look at this from a future expansion viewpoint but if it were me, quite apart from giving it anything at all like "preferred" status, I'd be giving it the scarlet letter treatment. If you were applying for a job and you submitted a resume that showed a long history but that you'd been fired from multiple jobs, didn't pay your dues on time, had to be bailed out and were a general f**k up at your profession, why would you expect to be put on any shortlist? After 28 years of little more than one calamity after another, I'd think the NHL would be burning rubber all the way to the state line in an attempt to get the H out of there as fast as possible.

@vaguelysober Ай бұрын

💙❤ PHNX ❤💙

@NYSP936 Ай бұрын

To quote Roy Kent, Alex Murelo could build Jeff Bridges

@hexx.hockey Ай бұрын

They need different ownership to bring hockey back to Arizona. Hockey has a place anywhere you make it possible, or popular, or where you build infrastructure. Growing the game in a place like Arizona might mean building rinks and facilities to grow minor hockey (kids, etc) in the area. Once the fanbase grows, bring an NHL team back. How popular is hockey in Arizona? Maybe someone can help answer that for me.

@viperswhip Ай бұрын

Can the Jets get their history back?

@viperswhip Ай бұрын

He should not have gotten a special use permit, theme park? For an Arena and a bunch of residential units? What the hell?

@bobbybushwhacker Ай бұрын

This was his plan, to keep the money. He just tried to save face with the public that he was trying to keep the coyotes

@2Jim2u 23 күн бұрын

RE: Season Finale! show with Mr Marchese. Mr Marchese if you actually believed the Sens were a playoff contender or to be moving towards playoffs, then you didn't look at the preceding seasons' record of 11 regular time road wins, nor did you look at last year's 11 Regular time road wins. Others have tried to sway me from the importance of winning on the road, but the Sens have troubles like this. Sens didn't win in O/T, actually didn't play in O/T (other than at Global series) until the END of December, that was their first O/T game and I believe that was at home, on the road was in January. If the Sens have moved forward with their selections, then we should see progress made in their road wins columns and when I say that, I mean regular time, not O/T.

@2Jim2u 23 күн бұрын

How much would the Sens have had to pay Boston, for Boston to part ways with Swayman not Ullmark??

@joshuabrown5123 Ай бұрын

Any expansion team in Phoenix should go with a new name and colors. A fresh start.

@AndreInThe416 Ай бұрын

How much did Leafs fans subsidize that franchise over so many years?

@brientaylorcohen Ай бұрын

How many Cups have y'all won since the league expanded to more than six teams?

@mrgreekgm754 Ай бұрын

$1967

@AndreInThe416 Ай бұрын

@brientaylorcohen how many Cups have Canadian teams won since Bettman took over? One. The year he came in.

@SS-iv7wv Ай бұрын

The players you mean? They have like 18% of their pay taken out for escrow to pay for losses, you think the owners are going to absorb that kind of loss, no way.

@AndreInThe416 Ай бұрын

@@SS-iv7wv Escrow account is a league wide loss reserve system, not team specific.

@javelldunn3379 Ай бұрын

What a biggest mistake ever for moving Arizona of that organization

@classic.cameras Ай бұрын

Utah Coyotes then? Please?

@splashnskillz37 Ай бұрын

@SharkDawg32 Ай бұрын

Vampires don't see their reflection. "I've done nothing wrong"

@mikemorris5321 Ай бұрын

I didn't hear you ask him if there's a chance Gary may have had his hand in this. People Gary isn't a stupid man, he could have said checkmate mate long ago but sold the worst financial team for 1.2 billion. THIS GUY GROWS HOCKEY!!!

@FischerFan Ай бұрын

No, he grows owners' pockets by gouging more money from the fans.

@stephencruse6525 Ай бұрын

Arizona government doesn’t want hockey

@brianjones7660 Ай бұрын

Or need it.

@Furens Ай бұрын

For all the reasons this is good news, the most important is that it hopefully clears the way for a quick return to AZ.

@ElmerFudd16 Ай бұрын

It'll be AT LEAST 10 years before they're back

@chrsn Ай бұрын

If they wanna roll the dice on another expansion team in AZ, well, it's their funeral

@northerngal Ай бұрын

Meruelo is almost as bad an owner as Harold Ballard was. Almost.

@scribbler60 Ай бұрын

It is truly unfortunate that Bettman and his single-minded error of pushing hockey into a disinterested market has failed so spectacularly. I was lucky to see a Coyotes game at Mullett Arena while doing some business in PHX, and it was an absolute blast. But fact is that the US southwest just isn’t a hockey market. This failure is all on Bettman. 100%

@splashnskillz37 Ай бұрын

Vegas proves you wrong

@brientaylorcohen Ай бұрын

For Canadian fans celebrating here - you just lost your last chance of Quebec Nordiques 2.0. if the Coyotes were reactivated as a 33rd team the NHL would have to expand to 34, more likely 36 teams. That means Houston, possibly Atlanta, and definitely Quebec. Without the Coyotes there will be no Nordiques. 😛😛😛😛😛

@ElmerFudd16 Ай бұрын

Lol they'll just pick another market. ATL, QC, Houston and Kansas City/Portland/Milwaukee.

@brycemcneil4404 Ай бұрын

The league will expand without or without the Coyotes. (That doesn't mean they'll expand to Quebec but I don't think the Coyotes status would have had much to do with it).

@jeffccan4464 Ай бұрын

When you were talking about businessmen thinking they can get away with anything made me think of Trump. Except now it’s catching up with him.

@Hogtownboy1 Ай бұрын

Im shocked I tell you shocked that a billionaire suckered Bettman

@dennis3351 Ай бұрын

Arizona state land dept. typical politics played. I do not care who for whatever reason disliked Meruelo. He was played with by cheap deceitful politics in my book.. Most cities would kill for a franchise,.

@jamesvanderbeak3487 Ай бұрын

Would they kill for a mismanaged franchise with a bad reputation that regularly fails to pay their bills?

@FAITHandLOGIC Ай бұрын

How is this his fault? The city of Phoenix rescinded the bid. The people of Tempe rejected the arena deal. The city of Glendale kicked them out of their building because he wouldn't sign a 20 year lease. I don't blame him for leaving at all.

@diegopadilla8543 Ай бұрын

The city of Phoenix rescinded the bid because he didn’t properly zone the site which is illegal. The people of Tempe voted no because the opposition spent $25,000 in campaign ads against the stadium. He spent $2,500. He was locked out of the Glendale arena for not paying their lease. Its pretty simple to see why its his fault

@krakenNation Ай бұрын

He didn’t get the proper permits he had permits for a children hockey arena not for to house a professional hockey team so this is all on him nobody else they had to cancel the auction

@nickb2912 Ай бұрын

@@diegopadilla8543that is not what happened in Glendale what actually happened is he refused to sign a 20 year lease

@SS-iv7wv Ай бұрын

@@diegopadilla8543 Az never supported the Coyotes. 30 years, multiple owners, multiple arenas, all the same results, low attendance and no interest. Good riddance, they deserve the college team at Arizona State that's about it. Fill that up and be happy cause the NHL is never going back there.

@thomasbrown9402 Ай бұрын

So can Utah be the Utah Coyotes?

@mrgreekgm754 Ай бұрын

No too much bad juju

@Hoovie9596 Ай бұрын

They shouldn’t want to be

@samuelfrick3475 Ай бұрын

The name reverts back to the NHL. Plus Utah wants no part of the brand.

@TheHauntedKiwi Ай бұрын

Utah wants every culture except their own. Even stole Jazz from New Orleans even though there are no jazz clubs in Utah. Should be the Utah Potato Salads. Or the Utah Sister Wives. Or the Utah Golden Plates

@Hoovie9596 Ай бұрын

@@TheHauntedKiwi the Utah coyote jets

@legendstarghost Ай бұрын

RATS WON!!!

@krakenNation Ай бұрын

Who cares I certainly don’t wow took them 30 years to win one title so next title will be 2054?

@kevinbadger8030 Ай бұрын

@@krakenNationlol your team doesn’t even have a cup. Florida made the finals in their third year, Seattle hasn’t even gone to the third round.

@SS-iv7wv Ай бұрын

30 years in the desert, hope the NHL never goes back there. Arizona won't support hockey.

@nickb2912 Ай бұрын

Had nothing to do with support it was pure bad ownership

@samuelfrick3475 Ай бұрын

@@nickb2912Atlanta and Arizona had the one common denominator. Disgraceful and historically pathetic owners

@SS-iv7wv Ай бұрын

@@nickb2912 went to many games there from Vegas to see the VGK at Jobing Stadium and all the way back to when they played at American Airlines Western Arena in downtown in the late 90s. Never once did I see a stadium more than half full. There's no way you can tell me a city that size shouldn't be able to sell out when tiny cities like Winnipeg get bigger crowds. Sorry, I just never saw it and I went to a lot of games since PHX and LA were the closest NHL cities to me before we got the VGK.

@nickb2912 Ай бұрын

@@SS-iv7wv mainly because the ownership groups never put a quality product on the ice. They averaged 12k in Glendale

@FischerFan Ай бұрын

@@nickb2912 The classic excuse from the sun belt hockey fan. You're no different than Silly Willy in Fatlanta.

@shanewilson8728 Ай бұрын

I point the finger at the fans and the media for Alex Meruelo walking away from the Coyotes. The fans and the media never gave Alex Meruelo a chance. The fans and the media are a disgrace.

@samuelfrick3475 Ай бұрын

You have got to be kidding me! You gotta be this misinformed to think Alex Mereulo was a saint. He’s the reason the Coyotes sold their future on-ice product to Utah of all places. F THAT GUY