What rise ? They were a train wreck from the start

Nicely done and said. As a Coyotes fan of 27 years, I blame Ellman. If the arena was built in Scottsdale at the site of Los Arcos mall, the Coyotes story would be much different.

I truly appreciate the thumbnail being Khabibulin. He was my favorite player growing up and why i became a goalie

Knowing Gary Bettman, who's inexplicably obsessed with this team, the Coyotes will come back to the NHL in 4 or 5 years. What's even worse, they'll rig things so that Arizona become instant Cup contenders like Vegas was in their first season. One thing they'll obviously do is sign hometown hero Auston Matthews and rig the expansion draft to get experienced players in their prime to build around him.

I moved to Phx in 1996 from Boston. To this day I am still a Bruins Fan first despite being a coyotes season ticket holder from about 1998 to sometime when Gretzky was running the team. HIm and Ellman....I loathe Wayne Gretzky. An arena that was Ellmans vanity project....bad drafting....and an utter failure of a team. leaf games here were loaded with fans.....they all lived here. bruins games...hawks....habs, calgary, Edmonton....all the snowbirds went to those. the customers were always here. the fans were always here. everybody here is from somewhere else...lots of snowbirds all they had to do was one thing Win and they failed miserably at that. Some of us tried to stick it out... But in the end a 1 hour drive to the west side and a crap on ice product doomed this team.

Last we heard, a new arena is not being built in Salt Lake City. They are renovating the Delta Center.

BRO that kid welcomeing the team WAS ME I GOT ON THE NEWS😂

I'm a boston fan that was born in 2003 and so, never had to worry about "relocation" because of how loyal the fans can get (for better and worse). So hearing that at one point one of my beloved Pats were originally going to be relocated to St. Louis before Robert Kraft's takeover was crazy to see. I wouldn't imagine how Pats fans in around New England would've feel if their favorite team moved away from their home in some twisted alternative timeline. Sad to see any team being forced to move to another place far from their home and hearing how heartbroken the fans must've felt when they lost a team they'd loved since they were children... Even with the clownshow that went on throughout the Yotes' time that their fans are the most loyal and caring even with all the heartbreak & horrid showing that they had to endure (although you could say that for any team that has sucked throughout their history recent or well, historically). Bye Arizona Yotes. You deserved better owners.

I say this as a yotes fan: what rise do you speak of?

this was a cool dive into the coyotes, they will be missed. also i don’t know if you have anything lined up for future videos but i think looking at the french connection/perreault would be dope

Nice video mate

Great video!

Your channel is very underrated bro, keep it up 💯💯

The reason why the NHL wants to return to Arizona is because of the large TV and corporate market, that is where most of teams revenue comes in. People think its just attendance but its the TV and the corporate sponsors where they make the most money. This is also why the NHL is interested in Houston and looking into returning to Atlanta

This sounds so much like the Sonics situation (obligatory "Clay Bennett can go fuck himself")...I feel so sad for Coyotes fans. No fanbase deserves to lose their team like this.

Thank you

As a native Zonie and coyotes fan since my college roommate got me into hockey around 2007, I’m crushed by the yotes’ relocation. I also understand the NHL’s decision and feel that they had reached a breaking point with this franchise. Your synopsis really illuminates what a disaster the business/financial side of the coyotes was for a long time, and AZ localities’ reactions to the team should be understood in relation to this, not a supposed lack of fans. As your clips show, yotes fans came out in droves when the team was competitive. In a conveniently located and state of the art NHL-level facility and with competent ownership, I have no doubt that they could succeed in the Phoenix market. It sucks that they were never really given a fair chance to succeed. I’m also skeptical of Meruelo’s ability to build the new barn. He’s burned so many bridges and now looks to be going about his effort through bribery and arm-twisting rather than building constructive relationships. It’s sad and as much as I want the coyotes back, a return under those conditions would simply be a return to all the problems of coyotes 1.0. For now, I will continue to wear my tear-stained kachina jersey and keep the faith. #hockeybelongsinthedesert #buildthebarn

Man, and I thought the Minnesota North Stars had some crazy ownership issues. After watching this, I highly doubt hockey will ever be back in Phoenix.

I'm definitely not standing up for Miller, but imagine losing your job over something you did in grade school, brutal.

“No guys the team is leaving because they had a bad owner!” Which one was the bad one? Didn’t realize the owners made all the player decisions and trades and drafts. This team was always a failing experiment and i’m tired of yote fans trying to say it wasn’t and it was just the owner.

NHL Hockey didn't work in AZ, but Bettman still wanted to keep the team there.

The lockout after the Playoff run killed all momentum. Sad that the best owners of the team were the NHL. Ownership sunk the team along with no playoff runs for over a decade (COVID season doesn't count).

Good work nice video but the real star was the background songs. I believe Nascar 98 or 99 or Dirt to Dayton used the same song

At 7:05, that is a picture of Glendale city hall in Glendale, California 😂

Interesting video but Tempe is pronounced Tem-pee not tem-pay that's my only gripe

Utah baby!!!!!! Let’s go

What a dumpster fire of a franchise

The deal says that Utah has an expansion team, that takes all player contracts, but leaves the name in Arizona, and the Coyotes will suspend operations for a few years.

Burke was originally planning on moving the Jets to Minneapolis. But Burke ran into the same problem as previous North Stars owners (not just Norm Green), no help from the Metropolitan Sports Commision and Target Center. So he moved the Jets to Phoenix.

The continued fall of the Winnipeg Jets. Rise of the coyotes..... what a joke

Alice Coopers' restaurant "Cooperstown" closed up shop a bit ago. *He is Arizona (Paradise Valley) resident #1. If he cant make it there....the hockey team....welllll Quebec...

Management doomed them from the start, Phoenix deserves a fresh start in a few years

Dammit, Gary.

I am going to be honest: The Coyotes should have went back to Winnipeg instead of staying in Arizona.

I hope the Yotes come back.

It's like a bad soap opera, I'm surprised it lasted that long in Arizona, only Bettman kept them there hoping for a miracle. I can only imagine the new soap opera, if a team goes back there in the future.

14:44 Bettman doesn't look happy in this clip

The coyotes were a decent team for a few years late 90s-early 2000s..khabibulan, roenick, tkachuk, numenin, tocchet, doan and a few notable others. They could score goals and had a few good teams..but ownership and running of the team was just dreadful. Who would have thought they would end up in Utah in 2024-2025..playing the entire 2023-24 season in Arizona states arena of only 5k seats. Shoddy locker rooms and crappy hotels and travel arrangements. Really underwhelming an NHL franchise. Seattle was a top city for relocation but wouldn't get a team until 2022.

gonna miss my coyotes man

I'm surprised they lasted this long no offense to the fans. I'm from St. Louis I know how it feels I had to watch my Rams move back to LA over bullshit politics

Bettman is so obsessed with Arizona.

Its Tem Pee. Not Tem Pay

Oh my Elliotte Friedman 11:56 is that really you??

The fall and fall of the Coyotes

Didn't the Coyotes last more seasons than they did as the Coyotes than they did as the Jets?

Forever my team. Took them all the way on my ps2 played every game. Lol. Seriously though being from arizona that was my team. I hope they can figure it out. Hooowwwllll!

You can lame AM, but I think Gary Bettman should bear a huge part of the blame. He never did a good job of vetting ownerships. The NHL on the team for over four seasons, and I knew with the challenges in Glendale were. I think theycould’ve made it work in Glendale. I always hear about it was too far of a drive from Chandler and Scottsdale, but their cities back east their fan base are over 50 miles away from their arena and not using public transportation either.

As a long suffering White Sox fan all I can say is keep Jerry Reinsdorf away from the NHL

Glendale is awful because most of the valley lives east of it and no one wants to drive that way multiple times a week. It works for the Cardinals since they are one time a week but not something that is every few days.

Watching this as a comedy

You can draw straight line from Bettman to the decline of the NHL in general. We need Bettman gone.

It sucks the Coyotes r no more!? I was never a real fan of team but i didnt dislike em either!? Im a Bruins fan!..Actually i loved their original jerseys and logo tho and even got a Phoenix Coyotes jersey shortly after they became the Phoenix Coyotes, i was 10 i think and had recently started playing youth hockey, i loved their original logo and jeseys tho and was never a fan of when they changed the logo and i was stoked when they finally went back to original logo and jerseys!!? I hope they can figure something out and bring Coyotes back sometime soon but who knows!? Guess we'll see if anything ever happens!?

Tell you who should get a team freaking Houston. I think it would be pretty big.

If the people of Tempe only voted yes. SMH. The Utah HC are getting a good squad primed for a playoff push in the next couple seasons.

There was a rise?

You start the video with the presupposition that Bettman was out the gate intend to move the team. He wasn’t. A little research shows that in a no salary cap era nearly all the Canadian market teams were threatened with moving.

More like The Repeated Blunders of the Arizona Coyotes.

Jerry Moyes was right all along.

we have 5 years to reactivate the team

Bettman's plan is to make the NHL a all American league

Tem-pee not Tem-pay

The rise ???

The continued incompetence crisis

I’m sorry, but I’d leave a place that called my team the yotes too! They’re called the coyotes,

Its pronounced tem-pee btw

Someone explain to me why Arizona deserves another shot already over Quebec? Quebec is far more deserving and they are ready now. Dont give me this canadian dollar value or small market bs, they would still make ten times more money then Arizona. What has arizona done to show they deserve an nhl team? Notta damn thing where quebec has done everything possible to get the Nordiques reborn.

Should of stayed in Winnipeg

JESUS

Selling the coyotes made sense. Why hold onto something that can’t win a championship. It’s best to sell them and get an expansion team later on. Start fresh.

Why is American sport like this?

Why didn't they just put the team in Phoenix to begin with and share the Footprint Center with the Suns and Mercury?

Ah yes, the coyotes. They passed through the state of Arizona like a kidney stone in the night

If fans can’t support them in the lean years….what did they actually lose? Moral of the story, don’t want your team to move, support before it gets there lol

Winnipeg have a team and arizona no 😂😂😂😂 revenge

Should've stayed in Winnipeg, glad this dumpster of a team is gone. It disgusting what the NHL has turned into.

I feel bad for Coyotes fans but moving a hockey team from Winnipeg to Phoenix has to be one of the worst decisions the NHL has ever made

What rise? They moved to Phoenix and did worse than Winnipeg... Then Winnipeg came BACK and the Coyotes left lol

They never deserved a team

NHL, please stop trying to make hockey work in Arizona.

Delta only has 12,000 uninterrupted views for hockey as the angling of the upper seats cut off the view to about the nearest goalline. Not great! Since the team will also play first year in a plan jersey without a name, or logo, and without any merchandise also not a good start. The fact is this relocation is rushed and should not exist. The team should be dissolved into all the other NHL teams and an expansion team should be granted to Utah once they have plans in for a proper NHL ready rink gets greenlighted. And Arizona get back a team once they have a ready to play in NHL arena ready within the five years. To build a new NHL/ NBA pro arena it takes a minimum of 3 years from the ground breaking. So that means at least 4 seasons at the Delta Center sharing the Jazz's facilities with NBA players. Not good for them either! This is a rushed relocation and could leave Ryan Smith having to sell the team if he has any building hangups that pushes his arena back over 5 years. That could mean if Ryan falls to get that new arena he may just sell the team back to Alex if Alex has his new arena ready first. Mean while in Quebec City a new NHL ready arena is serving the QMJHL team only. What happened to that ownership group?