Coyotes will PAY for new arena: FINAL offer to stay in Arizona 

The team could've moved 4-5 times in the last 15 years and avoided all the extra headaches. It's Bettman's fault we're still dealing with this trainwreck!

@@ElmerFudd16 the little man's hard on for az. caused it an embarassing headache they can't walk back now.

@@ElmerFudd16it really is because of how obsessed he is with this team and making it his own little science experiment to see how hard a team can fail

And then stop going by year 3, just like everyone else!

Explain to us where with this northeast Phoenix proposal that the public has any position to "stand up to an owner".

So sick of people not knowing facts and blurt out bull****. They paid their rent. It had nothing to do with them not affording it.

@@NHLCrazy2007 They got a loan from the league. We know Meruelo is a fraud.

​@NHLCrazy2007 they were 6 months late and only paid after the city called out their poverty franchise.

@@kevinmaghran6933 I will not take anything you say seriously. I hope your "poverty" life has a nice day.

@@NHLCrazy2007 it's a fact that the franchise paid rent and taxes late. Why would anyone trust a poverty franchise who pays rent and taxes late? I pay my mortgage and taxes on time because I'm not a poverty person.

And somehow you care, because?

@@NHLCrazy2007 because it’s a terrible precedent that hurts taxpayers up and down the country?

@@Gallalad1 What part of 100% privately funded do you not understand here?

@@NHLCrazy2007 no my frustration is that this wasnt the norm. That the final offer is the private one is pathetic. The idea of government funding should never have even happened

​@@Gallalad1tempe offer was privately funded as well. City was on the hook for infrastructure and cleaning up the landfill, just like they will be no matter what is built there.

So what.

If they did they’d own a crazy amount of valueable real estate in Arizona**

@@westcoast9285 And the team overall value will skyrocket with this since they will own the arena and this land too I’m just gonna be skeptical until they get it passed the finish line.

The plan has always been to pay for the arena no matter where they put it. Was the plan in Tempe as well, just special interest groups put out tons of misinformation.

@@ki2726 this concept in AZ is similar to the coliseum city concept visualized and attempted before Raiders left Oakland involving As and Raiders getting new stadiums and there being housing and food and entertainment and office space except with this AZ concept it’s 1 ownership group shouldering way more. It’s a bigger risk but the reward would be tenfold. Wishing them the best of luck I hope they succeed we’ve had every pro sports team stolen from the East Bay unfortunately

@@alexkueter9710 no smart taxpayers didn't want to be stuck with higher taxes aa a billionaire com man gets tax breaks in exchange for an arena development that would have swelled to well over $ 2 billion with no guarantee that devlopment would have been delivered and cancelled that shit out.

They would be just the third franchise to privately fund their own stadium in the last 10 years. Baby steps here. Especially when you would need a few transit lines to garner enough foot traffic to the arena. I think that would be a bridge too far with this plan right now.

LMAO imagine falling for Merulo's grift this bad that you write this many paragraphs about it

Educate yourself on the plan, you fool!

I like my money but I love your money

Police, fire and such like are considered public services and would be paid for (I assume) through property taxes like any other development would be. It wouldn't be their responsibility to pay for these services any more than it would if they were building a mall, factory, warehouse or any other kind of project. Same for schools. Not their responsibility. Schools there, if they are needed, would be funded the same way they would be anywhere else.

@@hughjass1044 Correct, but we never heard if the developers are asking for tax breaks or not. All we know is that they’re not asking for the public to fund construction. And if the developers are constructing water and sewer lines, there isn’t a clear delineation between public utilities and private development.

What part of 100% privately funded do you not understand?

@@scottNNJ I don't know how things work there but where I am, the governments of whatever level(s) will build the so-called trunk lines to the perimeter of the project and the developers handle anything that's on site. So in this case for example, the state and/or city would build anything that's needed up that Scottsdale Rd (or whatever it's called) and the Coyotes group would build everything else. The "cost to taxpayer" isn't going to be zero but it never is in any kind of large development project. There's always an initial outlay of money to get services up and running but don't forget, there is also a lot more new tax money that will be coming in as a result of that development.

@ NHLCrazy2007 It’s 100% privately funded until the team decides “LOL, j/k, give us some public money”.

Got to love this dope talk more bullshit. 🤣🤣

And you care about their survival at Mullett Arena because it impacts your bank accounts?

it’s 4600 lol

@@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija It is normally a 5,000-seat building. But 300 to 400 tickets had to be cut off from being sold to accommodate NHL media, production crews and employees.

I live 3 miles from the Glendale arena. Hockey for a profit in the Valley of the Sun is a long way away from working.

@@landscape674 You keep thinking that after the new arena opens in 2027.

They didn't fill 4600 every night...

TB Lightning. They have what you are looking for.

Are you from Arizona, because if you're not it's pretty easy to root for any other team not gonna lie 😅

maybe got a life is something you can do if your life revolves around this shitstorm of a team.

@@ja3188 Louisiana. i don't like any of the teams near me

@@stevenbauer4799 how about piss off? How tf does me being upset about a team i like possibly leaving mean I need to get a life or I have my whole life revolving around it? Dumb ass

Got to love these conspiracy theorists with their crooked ideas of what they think will happen.

They can eventually be backfilled with an expansion team. This team is the original Winnipeg Jets. Winnipeg got their expansion team. Let this team move to SLC and get renamed.

Finally, a fan from Utah that would want to see BOTH the Coyotes and their own team co-exist in the league. We need more people like you around.

@@ArizonaHotSauce The team belongs in Houston.

@@ArizonaHotSauce Winnipeg didn't get an expansion team. It got the relocated Atlanta Thrashers.

@@maxpowr90 You are correct. My mistake. They got the 3yr expansion Atlanta team. Side question - did they assume the old Jets lineage and records or did they go with the team to Arizona?

Good, let it Plan L or M or N... the team will be staying in Arizona.

​@@NHLCrazy2007 and if this fails?

@@darthvader3742 It will not fail. I will put that on the record.

@@NHLCrazy2007give it up bro it’s over

@@NHLCrazy2007 Just like Tempe wouldn't fail!

Explain to me how 17K is "more smaller"? It is about average. There are only a small number of NHL arenas that are 19K or more.

lot has happened last 3-4 years

The hockey arena was on the wrong side of town & they wore out their welcome with the city of Glendale after many squabbles.

Everything that led up to it can’t be properly explained in a comment or probably even a single video, but after years of various problems the city of Glendale decided (correctly) that the Coyotes were more trouble than they were worth and declined to renew the team’s lease past the 2021-22 season, effectively evicting them from the arena.

@@kevinvonderscher3971 wrong side of town? don't forget the east valley (Scottsdale) told them NO from the very beginning.

The issue with Glendale was that it was out of reach for a lot of people to get to for 41 games a season especially on week days especially for a mediocre team. With an arena in north Phoenix off of pretty much the 101, 51, and 17 traffic and transit would be much better and people will be more inclined to watch a better team now that they are getting lots of prospects and good players in the system

No, it's called a backup plan. And about that "losing money" part. Might want to do a wee bit research next time about them being cash positive at Mullett Arena in their first 2 seasons there.

@@NHLCrazy2007 you are factoring the money from the NHL. This needs to be factored in. Right now the NHL is underwriting all loses the team is incurring,. You might want to remember that.

Was supposed to say leave not love.

ARZ AZ Arizona Coyotes Should head back to Glendale AZ

They'll move to Houston before Salt Lake. Reason, the building is ready in Houston, and it's the largest tv market in the US without a team currently.

@@davidrosca8059 The reason for the Coyotes ongoing situation is a result of moving to Glendale in the first place, and Glendale terminated their relationship with the Coyotes, hence they don't want anything to do with them. Your comment isn't a viable option for them in reality.

@@KWally That would make sense but Utah has a new NHL/NBA that has been approved.

I'm surprised the Veterans Coliseum is still standing. What purpose could it possibly still be serving in 2024? The Suns haven't played there in 30 years

Veterans memorial coliseum hosts expos and fairs and concerts and some other random things. When I got my U.S. Citizenship, the ceremony was held at the Coliseum.

You won't get the Yotes as relocating a team to Houston is pissing away money from the league's perspective, no doubt Houston will get a team, but it will be via expansion only.

Houston feels too similar to Atlanta and Phoenix and every other southern market - it’ll be good if the team wins, if not it’ll be a disaster

That was not the same owners, the current one is a billionaire.

Which means hockey is unprofitable in Phoenix

@@joanned8172 It was 2021, and Meruelo bought them in 2019. Jackass.

I live about 5 minute drive from T Mobile arena. Very convenient. Just suck Knights tickets are hella expensive. LOL

@@alohastate8256 I go to t mobile all the time for ufc fights. But yeah it being so close is always great.

your rents going up bud

@@numagik 😅 Luckily I own. With the A's coming in just down the street too, hopefully home value will raise (unlike VGKs powerplay percentage)

What'll be your excuse for not going when the time comes?

Incorrect on Desert Diamond Arena. Do your damn research. The Coyotes did not want to commit to another 12 to 20 years in Glendale KNOWING it is financially not viable to stay there. Glendale officials (namely Kevin Phelps) opted in response to not renew the year-to-year lease anymore, But you keep believing that narrative about not affording rent and withholding taxes. You clearly fail to know the basic concept of playing in the wrong location and losing money. And you again do not grasp another basic business concept for why the Coyotes had to raise ticket prices at Mullett Arena. Less supply, higher prices for tickets. Yet, it has been reported they have not lost money there either. Just not as much made as other teams with standard NHL arenas.

@@NHLCrazy2007 In December of 2021 it was reported that they owed $2.7 Million in unpaid rent. That was on top of owing $1.3 Million in taxes that they eventually paid. The city opted to not renew them due to conflict of interest laws because they weren't paying their taxes and the arena is owned and operated by the city of Glendale. They wouldn't have been renewed for any length of time because they weren't paying their damn bills. Go touch some grass dude. Even Brodie has reported on that recently. I think its fairly obvious to everyone that's why their ticket prices are so high. They wouldn't be able to afford their players and compete in the league if they weren't making extra money from somewhere.

@@tjshultz89 Go touch some grass? Listen, jack***... before trying to lecture me in repeating the same bull**** from the national media, here is a bit of a reality check on the truth for you. I will say this again for you to comprehend. Glendale city manager Kevin Phelps wanted the Coyotes to commit to a 12 to 20-year extension to the final year-to-year agreement that was allowed to expire and the team said NO. Alex Meruelo wanted to move the Coyotes to the east side of town for reasons already stated numerous times. Phelps responded by opting not to renew the contract beyond the 2021-2022 season. He even went on record recently to confirm this. Oh and while Glendale owns Desert Diamond Arena, ASM Global is the operator. Might want to get that fact straight. Then your flawed logic on the current ticket prices. Clearly you fail miserably a basic concept of Economics 101. AGAIN... less supply plus at minimum same demand equals higher prices. Another thing you fail to know and/or acknowledge is that the Coyotes have been cash flow positive since they began playing at Mullett Arena, including this season alone in having 5 home games rake in at least $1 million in game revenue. Yeah, in an arena where only 4,600 tickets are available for sale (season tickets and single game seats). Next, if you knew a damn thing about the Meruelo family's financials, you would know they own a lot more than just the hockey team. Might want to read up on their portfolio. And lastly, as much as I normally enjoy Brodie Brazil's work, his "reporting" on the Coyotes has missed the mark a good number of times with too much information left out and not accurately reported. And if you are supposedly a Coyotes fan, you would have known already to have Craig Morgan as your actual source of information on the team he has covered for almost the team's entire existence in Arizona. That includes all things ownership and arena. But you would rather listen to Brodie tells me just how unwilling you are to know the actual facts.

@@NHLCrazy2007 What a load of diarrhea splattered on my screen

Only the haters care.

Yes. The owners had problems paying the rent

​@@gerrylee1687 Incorrect. Alex Meruelo withheld funds until the threat by Kevin Phelps was made about locking the team out the arena.

​@NHLCrazy2007 Besides "We're planning on building a new arena anyways so we don't need you," why would Meruelo withhold funds?

@@HHSGDFootballJPD I want you to actually think logically about the situation at the time. It is not hard to figure out why that he did.

Not just west of Scottsdale, it is in northeast Phoenix.

Portland would still be good. He tried to buy the Pens. Before the current ownership group bought them.

Neither owner's team has a proper facility to operate. Both the A's and the Coyotes have been, shall we say, 'challenged' franchises.

@@FischerFan Fisher could've rebuilt at the coliseum site, which already has a BART station and plenty of room for an entertainment district. But he didn't. He wanted Oakland to pay the bill

I sincerely hope the Coyotes can stay in Arizona as this plan looks very good, especially the part about the team paying for all of this.

Agreed. We live 10 mins from tje glendale OLD location. Then they went to Tempe.. Uber to Scottsdale isn't to bad. THIS... Coming from a Life long REDWINGS FAN

You people need to stop being so optimistic. Even if the bet was won the parcel of land is so bad it’s going to go through obstacles and loopholes. It would be better if the coyotes moved to Salt Lake City. Would love to watch the mercury move too because they suck as well but ah wrll

@@crazycorn5643 Phoenix is an exponentially larger market than SLC. With a stable ownership and arena, the Yotes will no longer be the joke of the NHL.

Where have I heard that before? 28 years of the same thing And I heard that BS with Atlanta...a far larger market that failed worse

Yup. And it is the expectation the Coyotes WILL win that auction. If you are going to spend $3 billion+ for a mixed use development on 95 acres, then your first order of business is to end up with not just the highest bid, but the BEST plan.

@@NHLCrazy2007 Since you are so confident I can’t wait to come back to this after the auction. I have no idea how you’re so confident in Alex Meruelo and the Coyotes when they’ve burned the fans so many times in the past.

@@ki2726 ​Come back and do what? Complain out of bitterness somehow after the Coyotes win the auction and secure their future that it was a corrupt process? I am waiting for that pathetic conspiracy theory to be put out there.

⁠@@ki2726I’ll admit past ownership was awful but Mereulo has owned the team for like 4 years. He’s been committed to try and bring a good hockey team to az since he’s bought it

@@nicktully7732 Which is why the roster is complete dogshit, he didn't pay rent in Glendale, and didn't give a shit about the Tempe vote. You people are clueless.

Mullet

@@billcook4768 yikes!

They would still play at Mullet arena.

That's a good one! Nope.🤣🤣

Keep dreaming. Will never happen. But thanks for being a dumb*** in playing.

Atlanta is where you put a team if you want it to struggle mightily then move to Canada.

I love watching the Atlanta Thrashers play the Atlanta Flames

​@@billhunter8209 Ah yes the battle of Atlanta 😂 Thrashers beat the Flames the other night 👍

It is NOT an option.

And there will be a Plan C or D or E... whatever it takes to stay in Arizona.

@@NHLCrazy2007 why don't you paul troll gweduzzi pay $ billion to buy yotes another $ billion to build arena and keep them in az. cause only an insane fkn a hole would attempt to buy/keep a team not feasible in that market.

You think that one has to simply outbid Alex Meruelo? Um, no.

Maybe the people from the Salt Lake group shows up and outbid them then sells the land afterwards lol😂😂

@@joshstorch3315 You must be that stupid to believe such an idiotic idea would ever happen.

It's not the highest value bid wins. Everyone puts in a proposal consisting of not only what they will pay but what they will do with the property. So a lower value bid could win if the state feels that it is a better use.

@@alexkueter9710 100% correct.

1) America West (or whatever it’s called this year) was built as a basketball-only arena and has terrible seating for hockey. (2) The two teams hate each other (3) The money is hockey these days is from the arena itself and the ability to use it as an anchor for development deals.

I don't believe that for a second. The team is not going to divulge any local Plan B at this point anyway. It would not be sensible while Alex Meruelo owns the team. Just like Mat Ishnia would never say he is interested while the team is not for sale.

@@NHLCrazy2007 They have no Plan B LMAO

I think he’s doing his due diligence incase they do not win the auction because if they don’t win the bid they basically have to sell

It is false. John Gambadoro has no sources to back his claims.

@@NHLCrazy2007 Gambadoro is pretty plugged in with every Phoenix based team

@@ki2726 Oh is he? That's news to many people locally. The guy talks about the Cardinals year round and that dominates his show.

Um, if you even pay attention to hockey leagues, their AHL team has that name.

Nope.

Nothing has been confirmed yet.

What is with your fixation over a rivalry that does not exist?

How did you arrive to the conclusion that the Coyotes are staying? That has not been decided yet which this video made clear. They have to secure the winning bid in late June which is not a guarantee.

@@moonytheloony6516 You need to add up all the variables of what the plan is, how the auction will be won and what the odds are that there would be a mysterious bidder that can come up with a plan before June 27th that is better than Alex Meruelo's proposal. There is even the possibility that he may end up the only bidder. If there was a better plan for this site, that other bidder would have had to apply for the auction and do the same thing the Coyotes did. The only way they do not stay is 1) they lose the auction and 2) regardless of what Xavier Gutierrez said, no other local buyer ends up buying the team.

@@NHLCrazy2007 Meruelo's proposal? You mean "hope to God the NHL doesn't find out I'm a broke jackass fraud and lets me keep the team"?

Nope.

​@@NHLCrazy2007Where to then.

@@danlivni2097 Nowhere. They are staying in Arizona. Deal with it.

Maybe Kansas City as well.

It’s really only Utah who already has an arena available.

QUEBEC CITY IS NEVER GETTING A TEAM

Not Quebec City that would mean a team would have to come to the Western Conference

Too bad for you that none of those options will happen. But keep dreaming.

You are a complete ****. What part of 100% privately funded do you not understand? Oh wait, all of it.

@@NHLCrazy2007 What part of Meruelo being a fraud don't you understand?

@@ElmerFudd16 What part of you not admitting you are an ***hole do you not understand? Go watch replays of some softball games.

Except Meruelo begged for $500 million from taxpayers...

They ARE funding it themselves. Did you watch the video?

Not quite. Glendale demanded a 12+ yr lease deal which current ownership refused knowing they need to in a better location. And that was after Glendale broke a contract with team. Plenty of bad blood & trust issues between CoG & the Coyotes.

@@DarkForceEight b s glendale was blackmailed into funding yotes losses for years. then yotes pulled the we wont pay our bills b s on the premise of getting tempe arena which failed. and glendale gave yotes the sweetheart one year lease option right up until they left. they were within their right to get certaintly with a lengthy lease. glendale paid their bills for almost ten years. it was time to tell yotes to fk off and go build their own arena. glendale make more off of other events that they did with yotes who brought in roughly $12,000 per game. pathetic.

@@DarkForceEight thanks for sharing I appreciate that.👍🏾

@@stevenbauer4799 Look at this conspiracy theorist shooting his ignorant mouth off as usual. Just as much of a troll as usual. Looking forward to your temper tantrum when the Coyotes end up staying in Arizona. I can see you so fighting mad, it will be fun to watch.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is beyond a joke of a comment. Like you give a **** about water in any other arena in the league.

@@NHLCrazy2007 Like you're even aware that Arizona is having a water crisis. You'd have to be let out of your padded cell to know about that.

@@ElmerFudd16 Says the troll from Delaware. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@NHLCrazy2007 Read the news. Arizona's gonna run out of water.

Exactly!!! They'll concentrate on that later and minimize it somehow. Meanwhile other teams with abuse scandals get #1 picks and all is forgiven. Sorry not sorry.

@@Michael_RareZebra They'll concentrate on that later...sometime...maybe in 20 years...

@@ElmerFudd16 So you’re admitting they’ll be here in AZ in 20 years. Great!!

@@Michael_RareZebra If they're here in 20 years, they'll still be terrible!

@@ElmerFudd16 Terrible like scoring 6 goals in one period to beat last year’s cup champs.

🤣🤣🤣

Plan B is Utah. The NHL is not going to continue to wait for another 2 options to fail. They either win the bid on June 27th or they will be gone.

@@skyhawk4946 Incorrect.

@NHLCrazy2007 be strong, relief will be here for you in a week.

This is the say dude that begged taxpayers for $500M in Tempe...

No one asked buddy

@@SharksSJ408 liberals luv to turn away from the truth.

Keep crying and eating ***burgers when this deal is finalized real soon.

Just like anybody with half a brain should ever believe a word you say.