Sharks fan here. I watched the Coyotes final game on ESPN+, and I didn’t expect to tear up at the end. I feel for all the fans. All I can say is good luck to the players, and hope they have fun playing at the Delta Center in SLC!
Ryan Smith has been a great backer of Salt Lake and has brought so much to our city and his vision of the future is something I can get behind . No doubt in my mind renovations will be made and a brand new state of the art Hockey arena will be built. He has done so much for our city and does what he says . He will take good care of the franchise from top to bottom.
As an Arizona native, for me it’s bitter-sweet. We all love[d] the Coyotes through thick and thin. But for the team to ultimately have better opportunities in SLC, I can only wish them the very best!
Devils fan here too, not gonna lie, the woman waving the flag totally got me. Feel for those fans…feels like whatever went wrong in Arizona wasn’t because of them.
I agree they deserved better. Different ownership needs to happen to allow competency to be key. The last multiple ownership groups in the past decade lacked competency and didn’t pay their bills as they should. NHL needs to be more competent in vetting out these ownership groups and not allow them to keep selling within to the groups members to change up who has majority ownership. All this effort by Coyotes fans who actually attended games, just to watch the team leave and make the playoffs in the next year or two somewhere else. What a shame.
Minnesota checking in. Feel for the fans, we've been there. North Stars moved after much less effort to keep them here. Script was the same: poor management led to poor performance, which led to poor attendance. Then, arena deals couldn't be made with taxpayers. Hopefully, the NHL makes the new ownership keep the Coyotes name in Arizona for later use. Stars took the name with them to Dallas and it was like taking our identity as a fan base with them. That's why the Wild adopt so much from the pre-Norm Green era. Hopefully AZ gets a new team in the next 5-7 years. Expansion draft rules have helped create more competitive teams out of the gate. All the best to Arizona.
@@TheCooterpuppet No doubt. We need someone who is more of a fans' commissioner and not such a one-sided owners' commissioner. There is no doubt in my mind that Toronto could support a second team, but I'd rather see them get an NFL team. Hamilton could support a team, but the politics of the Leafs and Sabres make it a non-priority for the League.
As a blue jackets fan (and a bandwagon coyote for this last game) I watched the entire game and I cried for the last 30 seconds of this game and I haven’t cried in years. I believe the last time I cried is when Atlanta laughed for some reason throwing up in California watching them play the sharks, the ducks in the multiple times a season for the last 21 years of my life. thank you for all the memories and I hope you come back one day under new ownership with a new arena and everything because hockey can work in the desert
@SillySongs4Everyone2001 I genuinely don't understand this... they had a decent arena for years and nobody showed out. Not happy yall lost your team but this franchise as it exists clearly does not work
@@A7X31610 I'm a Habs fan in Canada and the trouble started when the team left Scottsdale and moved all the way out to Glendale. In doing so, the corporate folk in Scottsdale were not going to follow the Coyotes all the way out there. As a result, the arena had empty luxury boxes and the heart of the fan base was also left behind. While I'm not fully convinced the Coyotes would've been a cash cow by staying in Scottsdale, odds are they would not have become the headache they did for the NHL when the team was operating in Glendale. A city council pouring tax dollars, in a modest-sized suburb like Glendale, into propping up the hockey team was never the proper route. Many a taxpayer in Glendale tried to warn them; but they were so desperate to keep the team there. In the end, it all collapsed.
Are you insane! It's the greatest day in nhl history. Hockey has and will always be a failure there. Good riddance! They we're by far THE worst nhl team ever!
the fact they were our first home game opponent . it was honestly a lot of fun winning against them , and a lot of fun being all sad when they beat us .
I am a Canucks fan and I watched this game and it ripped my heart the fans didn’t deserve this poor ownership seeing the fans the staff even the ice girl ripped my heart the plus side is that they have a good minor hockey system now and I hope with a proper ownership that some day they will get a team again
Same. I’ve waited my whole life to see the NHL come to Utah, and I’m ecstatic to see it finally happening. but I’m also super sad for Yotes fans to see their franchise come to an end
@@shawnwhite1972 to be fair this is how you gained yours and you are getting an expansion as soon as you can get an arena. The Coyotes will be back in a few years. The expansion team will be called the Coyotes so it's really not gone. Just gone for a few years
Here's to ya Arizona Coyotes and the fanbase, as a Canadian I am gonna miss you as you guys were as faithful to your franchise as any fanbase could be. Good luck to the new team in the future and let's hope everything works out under brand new ownership right?
Well at least yall went out with a bang so to speak. A big multi goal win. I feel for Arizona hockey fans on this, I know how it is to have your team move and get taken away from you unceremoniously and suddenly at the end of a season. See the Alaska Aces of the ECHL. And now I wont be able to ever see the Coyotes play in Arizona. Stay strong AZ and best of luck to the Coyotes organization in Utah. They better get it right or they better fold for good.
You just watch. The NHL will do everything in its power to return to Arizona, but it won't lift a finger to impose any 13,000-season-ticket condition on the fan base there like it did on Winnipeg. It will go back there as blindly as it did the first time without any conditions being imposed.
It was the Arizona Coyotes who the Sedins played their last home game against and gave us a fairy tale ending to two of our best players to ever wear our colours. The Coyotes are nothing but pure class and I’ll miss them. Hope to see you all in the league again very soon ❤ - A Canucks Fan
Lifelong Hockey fan and Salt Lake area resident here. So excited to for hockey to be coming but obviously feel bad for the fans invested in the coyotes in Arizona. What a heart breaking experience it must be.
I hope the young lady waving the flag gets a lot of hugs. It can't be easy saying goodbye to a seasonal job that one takes out of pure love and passion for what you get involved in.
I'm so sorry to the fans. I'm a leafs fan and our team would be nothing without a particular player who is an Arizona native. I love the passion of you guys and admire the loyalty through the bad and the good and trust me, I know what it's like to root for a team that struggles but despite the disappointment and let downs, your home team is almost like a family member. No matter how hard it gets, you stand by them. The fans and the team did not deserve this. My heart goes out to all of you.
Pens fan here. Something about the coyotes not being in the league is disturbing. such a loyal team and fanbase separated. such a disgusting taste for the entire NHL fanbase. Hope for a quick return to the league
As Canadian hearing any one lose a team is gut wrenching, im sorry, keep your head up you never know, we got our Jets back maybe you get your Coyote back one day 😭😭
As an Atlanta Native, Players will be fine, it just like they got traded until the end of their contract, and they get a stipend for moving. Fans will honestly be fine, they’ll convert to another team and have a brand new experience. (Most ATL people converted to Nashville, Carolina, Florida, Tampa, or even some stayed with the Jets as fans.) But man the staff, employees, and their families.. that’s the part that really sucks. Good luck to all who have to find a new job in this market to make ends meet. I will always feel for those people.
Well said Atlanta fan. On a side note, from a faraway perspective (I"m a Sens fan), I believe one day you will get to root for an Atlanta team again. Once expansion happens again I believe the first 2 places the NHL will return to in the Eastern conference will be Houston and Atlanta. Hopefully, once that happens besides good ownership you will have municipal support to foster that development.
@@OttawaRocks Ah forget it. I just reconverted back to Toronto where my family is from. I’m long from Atlanta. I honestly don’t blame the league or the situation. Our city, fanbase, and management just wasn’t ready for a team. WPG was. That’s the way the cookie crumbles. My point being, honestly, if you like hockey in Arizona, it won’t be that bad. You’ll find a new team, find new traditions, you’ll go to less games, but they will be more special when you do. But the staff and management?? Those mortgage payments don’t just stop for 12 months while you’re trying to figure your stuff out. Your wife and kids may not want to move to Utah, but it’s the only choice they got. I knew families like that. You might in involved in say Sales… you don’t get to just bring those relationships over with you to Utah. And the bills keep coming. Say your spouse has a small local business. Do they just start over in Utah? It’s really unfortunate on a human level. That part really really sucks
There is no way I'll support Nashville, Carolina, or Tampa Bay. If the Thrashers aren't here or a team in Atlanta, there is no point supporting the NHL. I'll stick with the Gladiators until we get a team back, but which we should, given our size. It is simply ridiculous that Atlanta doesn't have a team by now. It has been 13 years. How long do they want us to wait, until we are six feet under?
@@TheLivewire18 What do you mean our city wasn't ready. We had packed crowds nearly every game during the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 seasons. Go watch some videos. Winnipeg is also one eighth Atlanta's size with a smaller arena. They took advantage of the ss known as Atlanta Spirit Group. Atlanta is the sixth largest metro in the USA. There is no excuse for Atlanta to be without a team. It is sickening, to be honest, for Columbus, Las Vegas, and Winnipeg to have teams and not Atlanta.
@@willp.8120 NO WE DIDNT! Stop the cap! Me and my buddies would buy 10-15 dollar tickets all the time and just walk down to front row and bang the glass. (We was young back then… I know you’re not supposed to do it now whatever.) The games were so empty, we would get caught and security would say ahhh, it’s fine. Go sit camera side. Now a big part of that was that the team SUCKED. But that’s management and the league rules. They deserved to move to a great Canadian City like WPG or Quebec City. ATL will be back again for the third time and that time they won’t screw it up.
I covered Lawson Crouse when he was with the Frontenacs. Always a great guy and very personal. Seeing the fans hurts the most. And the game day ops staff and everybody else involved. Very bitter sweet in a way.
As an Oilers fan who would often go to Arizona in the winter, I will miss having the Coyotes there. I honestly believe with the right owner and a good arena this team can succeed. Hopefully Morelo is not involved in any of it.
You know what's funny? Y'all want to act all sad for the Coyotes leaving Arizona, but these same type of people had nothing but contempt for Atlanta when the Thrashers left. People weren't saying they were sad. In fact, Atlanta was being mocked and ridiculed. Yet, the Coyotes have had far worse attendance over the years, favortism, chance after chance, and a better team, winning-wise, than the Thrashers ever had.
So sad. Watching this game was so weird. Happy and sad at the same time. Seeing the fans, especially that flag girl crying like is the hardest part about this whole thing
One could accuse the NFL of being more greedy than the NHL. NFL teams, as a rule, make money, yet they still moved three teams in short succession. Every pro sports league wants all of its franchises to be reasonably viable. Like the Thrashers before them, the Coyotes found themselves in a desperate, facility revenue-draining situation. The Coyotes won't be in that state in Salt Lake City, and the Oakland A's won't be in said type of jackpot in Las Vegas.
boy did the state of arizona deserve better, feel for the fans that were praying for a new arena, hopefully this isn't the end of hockey in the dessert for good
It's understandable that Winnipeggers will be less sympathetic to Coyotes' fans than they would compared to, for example, Minnesota North Stars fans or Hartford Whalers fans. For every arrogant, egotistical hockey neophyte in Arizona (who deserve no sympathy whatsoever) there are a number of hockey fans who never wanted to gain a team at the expense of Winnipeg, nor any other city. Many in Winnipeg and around the NHL will view this outcome as a case of 'what goes around, comes around'; but one can still appreciate those good fans in Arizona and give them credit for the years of instability and uncertainty they were dragged through, and much more than the franchise ever did in Winnipeg.
I feel so sorry for the fans in Arizona, for you're not at fault for this. Had it happen twice to us down here due to poor ownership in the '70s (see Flames, Atlanta) and negligent ownership over a decade ago (see Thrashers, Atlanta). Hopefully, you guys find another team to support or get another franchise down the line...
LA Kings and LA Rams Fan Checking in here... sad to see your team leave for another city... I HAVE BEEN THERE With my LA Rams going to STL ... AZ Fan base DONT EVER GIVE UP stay together united as a fanbase..... here the real deal whether expansion or relocation you may get a team back i pray you get a team back, back in 1994 when my LA Rams relocated to STL there was a clause in the lease to void the Lease that would allow relocation.. now i dont think the coyotes may comeback but another team or expansion team may make an effort our LA Rams fanbase stayed as united as we possibly could through 20 years with booster clubs and all as the stl lease was coming closer many fans were awake by 2015 we made noise saying we wanted our team back (STL Rams) we got them in 2016 January so dont lose hope... it may happen again for you..... and btw none of us in LA Ever thought we would get our team back let alone in our lifetime (who are still living)
I can't watch this anymore the tears i know the sting of losing sports teams that i cared about this really tugs at the heartstrings another sports team cheated out robbed and stolen from the fans 😭
They don’t deserve this as a fanbase. The ownership didn’t deserve the team or the city. Keep your head up AZ you will be back it’s just a matter of time. Hopefully when you guys return you will have ownership who is as passionate as you are.
Well, get in line after Atlanta. We've been waiting for 13 years and are far better a hockey market than Phoenix. Houston also should get a chance, too. I'm fine with Phoenix being team 35 or 36, but Atlanta has been patiently waiting.
@@noneofyourbusiness6809 No, the city did not fail. The ownership did. Look up the videos: Atlanta Thrashers home goals 2006-2007 Atlanta Thrashers home goals 2007-2008 and tell me that this market "failed". We had far greater fan support than the Phoenix market, and it isn't debatable.
@@noneofyourbusiness6809 The only reason the Coyotes didn't return to Winnipeg was because Glendale prolonged the waste of tax dollars in Arizona and postponed the inevitable. The NHL had also taken ownership of the team.
The thumbnail is heartbreaking. Not only is that person out of a job, she’s also saying goodbye to all the memories and sentimental moments she had attached to the team. It’s possible that, being an ice girl, she grew up as a kid with her dad taking her to games and this was one of the main things she had to remember him by. I know for me at least the Sharks have created countless great memories with my friends and family. Going to their games and becoming a part of the team culture helped bring my family and friends closer together and, if they suffered the same fate as the Coyotes, it would feel like a part of me died along with them. I just hate how so-called hockey “fans” dunk on this fanbase that’s endured almost 20 years straight of suckage and never had a fair chance to gain a real following in the area. Yes, their numbers are fewer but clearly there are still fans, and they are humans with the same emotions and precious memories attached to the team that you all feel for your clubs. To say “good riddance” or the Arizona fans don’t deserve that same joy that your team brings to you is just appalling to me.
I grew up playing hockey a long time ago. The Hawks practiced at my rink (Ridgeland Commons) when the Ice Capades were in town or the circus. I got to skate with the greats, Bobby and Dennis Hull, Stan Mikita, Phil and Tony Espo, Whitey Stapleton, and so on. I was a huge Hawks fan right up until the team canned Kaner and Towes. Brilliant move Hawks. I'm so sorry to see this happen to the Yotes. I know how loyal hockey fans are and what this means to the locals. It's a dang shame that these days the teams go to the highest bidder. When your citizens voted down the new arena/complex, that was pretty much the end of the line for the Yotes in Az. In a sense, it's awesome that the taxpayers had their say, but the price paid for the no vote is now being felt. I don't watch NHL at all these days. I haven't in a few years. The NHL got way to involved in every "movement" and that's not what I want to watch or see when I go to a game. There's a time and a place for organizations to back any and all movements they want to. Doing it to paying fans is a no go for me. Bettman has to go, end of story. Let's get back to sports and handle all of our other assorted stuff when the game's over. I'm all for any movement people want to back, 100%. I just don't want to be the person who paid good money to see a game and have an agenda, good or bad sold to me as I'm sitting there. But hey, you do you.
The Coyotes could have moved several times, but managed to stay. When a team has an unstable, unworkable arena situation for 20+ years, a move is inevitable. It is a shame. Class move by the announcers to just keep silent and let the historic moment play out.
