FULL Breakdown: Arizona Coyotes & NHL have ANSWERS on Utah move 

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Brodie, props to your coverage of this whole saga. You are by far the most balanced, informed, and understanding of coverage. I’ll become a subscriber.

Gary looks like he is a hostage every time the owner opens his mouth.

From eastern Canada here. This is the best pick apart of this presser I've seen. It's perfect. Well done!

The way Bettman went into full damage control mode after the “I don’t like the media” comment was hilarious! And great commentary from Brodie throughout!

The closest you get to this situation in sports has to be the 1996 situation with the Cleveland Browns, where they went inactive before returning in 1999 (with the owner and all players relocating to Baltimore and forming the Baltimore Ravens).

Brodie's pausing skills are so great he could do the Devil's RU-vid thumbnails. Lol. But seriously great job breaking all this down.

Nothing personal, but sometimes (not always) reporters ask questions that are meant to entrap, not elicit information. And much (not all) of the skepticism surrounding the media is deserved. The state of Arizona has to approve the entertainment district. I pay an added fee on my Cardinals season tickets that helps pay off the bonds that financed State Farm Stadium (which is owned by the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority, a state agency). All events at the facility have a "facility use fee" added to the admission price. That way, users, not the general taxpayers, pay for the facility. That same referendum also raised money to improve and add spring training facilities here - resulting in the explosive growth of the Cactus League from eight to 15 teams. When that referendum was approved, the line was, "If you don't go to a game ... you don't pay anything." It's not unlike the motor fuel taxes that pay for streets and roads, or the greens fees at public golf courses.

The floundering from Gary after Meruelo said he doesn't like the media is hilarious

Let's not sugar coat this: Mullet Arena does not meet AHL, ECHL, nor SPHL standards. So I'm not sure how the AHL would agree to the Road Runners moving there.

Absolutely AWESOME job here Brodie, and also, props to Bettman & Meruelo. What is going on in AZ is very difficult no matter how you view it, but they definitely earn respect points by doing this, and doing everything they can to address this situation as best as they can. Tough, tough situation all around.

As an Edmonton Oilers fan, I welcome a team in Salt Lake City Utah. 🇨🇦

Who does like the media other then media members? It's so weird how It's dangerous for anyone to say that.

I don’t see the Arizona market wanting to follow Utah. If Arizona gets reactivated the good news is that there will be an instant rivalry.

This was my favourite video you have done! Thank you Brodie!

Brodie, this was a great video and I loved the breakdown. Good job man.

Glendale City Manager has confirmed the reason they didn't renew the lease was that the Coyotes were not willing to sign a long-term lease. But the Glendale City manager has said it was 12 years, not 20. Also, campaign finance reports show the Coyotes spent $1.1M on the Tempe campaign, not $7M, so either he lied or he committed a campaign finance violation.

BRODIE WTF AN HOUR TEN 😭😭 genuinely can’t wait to watch it tho. Appreciate your hard work and reporting boss we appreciate you 🫡 if you don’t mind me asking how long did it take to edit🤣

Technically, the Browns were inactive when Modell moved the team to Baltimore, although it took a lawsuit from the city of Cleveland and a settlement to make that happen. Perhaps the NHL legal department took notes.

Another great video Brodie.

Nice recap Brodie. It would be interesting to get your take on the NHL press conference done the same day in Salt Lake City and their new plans to heavily renovate the Delta Center instead of building a new arena.

Best coverage by far.

As others have already said, great job with your recent coverage of this Arizona/SLC fiasco. By far the most interesting (NHL-related) storyline a quite some time.

This is extremely refreshing, considering what John Fisher has been willing to answer in public.

This video is awesome. Great job

Great job Brodie. I saw this once before but found it even more interesting the second time with your breakdown. It's obvious Meruelo and Bettman were very stressed during this presser, but I think they've done the best they could do under the circumstances. I think Utah will be a great addition to the NHL and I also hope hockey can return to Phoenix within 5 years.

What I saw was a relieved commissioner that has a finality to a long continuing issue that really seemed to not be progressing. I didn't see a commissioner eager or thrilled in taking the team from Arizona. In fact I think he is doing a favor to Arizona in giving some time to get their ship together, get the arena up and built and we will be stopping by to see how it is coming along and get hockey back in Arizona. 5 years is not so long so best get busy. Just focus on the arena, forget about the sports park and all that until the arena is up and ready for games. Then worry about the sports district later.

I would recommend putting an ECHL team in Tucson. Since they just had 2 franchises cease operations.

Put ECHL team in Tucson and AHL team in Mullet. Not a impossible notion

So, since everything I have watched you report on have been yotes and A's related...can you do a vid on NFL/STL related? XFL 2.0/3.0/UFL have been essentially carried by the Battlehawks...that STL should have an NFL team? ,😄😄

6:37 Brodie my brother! You reported on this when it happened! 2005 the San Jose Earthquakes went inactive and moved to Houston to become the Dynamo because San Jose refused to build an MLS caliber stadium. Only once it was built and an ownership group that cared about the team did they come back! It was literally an exact mirror of what’s happening with the Coyotes!

It's too bad the A's and Oakland vs Vegas couldn't come up with something similar. Guess NHL learned a little something from that mess.

Reminds me of when they deactivated the Cleveland Browns when the players relocated to Baltimore in the 90s

The Angels have been “inactive” for quite some time! 😆

I always wondered why the NHL let Alex buy that team when the NBA told him to kick rocks when he tried to buy the Atlanta Hawks

For expanding playoffs, is it a play in kind of thing like in the NBA?

Noob question, curious how moving approx 20 miles from Glendale to Tempe made such a difference in turnout? Just traffic bc Glendale seems to work fine for Cardinals or bc those games are mostly Sunday (with the exception of MNF & TNF)? Knock Meruelo all you want but still cares tons more about his team than Fisher & the A's.

How is it that here in Palm Desert CA (a really small market) we got a new, nice, cool arena built quickly for the Seattle AHL team that has been embraced by the community but this dumnuts couldn’t get a new barn for an NHL franchise in a much larger market?

Appreciate your commentary, well done! Two thoughts that came in my mind: 1) hockey could return in 5 years OR SOONER. Is that now a committed timeframe for expansion? (Because a 33 team league is attractive to no one) 2) if the offer isn’t transferable, how low are the odds that Meruelo really brings hockey back, thus making point 1 moot?

Well, one could presume that when the NFL suspended the Cleveland Browns' brand and created the Ravens in Baltimore, that the Browns were put into to suspense...Meruelo is not wrong. And I totally believe him when he says he made more money at the Mullett than he did in Glendale. Glendale was a sump. They were giving away tickets there and still had problems with attendance. Lower capacity at the Mullett, but ticket prices were through the roof. And stop it with the "it was the other team's fans" BS. Don't care. Attendance is attendance...This press conference was a joke. Meruelo did a great job in tough spot. He took full responsibility, and that's something very few owners in any sport will do. But the Q&A part of this presser was journalists and bloggers using the time to grandstand and put out their personal grief. And even more irritating were all the false equivalents - mentioning the Phoenix non-compete clause with the Suns, a standard TIF package for a privately financed property "Oh, no! You're gonna get sued! The State will deny you! Blah! Blah! Blah!" To these people. Shut up. Go educate yourself about the process. And stop wasting valuable time with your self-promotion...As for the unpaid bills question - he did answer it! Very succinctly! If he were a stiff he wouldn't keep his gaming license. The Coyotes were treated far differently from other sports teams because of Glendale's smearing of them...And I don't blame Meruelo at all for his dismissal of the media, if this is the kind of crap he has to put up with...In short, this presser reflected far worse on the press than it did on Meruelo or Bettman. And in the end I think Bettman will still fall on his sword getting the Coyotes back up and running...And from a personal perspective, living in Arizona is kinda like living with a bipolar spouse. I love you when we're rich, and I loathe you when you're poor...

The new proposed location is still at the outskirts of the city. Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler fans will still have to drive far. The 101 / 202 area really is the best location.

Also, the half season/half season thing is so impractical for the Roadrunners. Tucson is 2 hours from Tempe, and the AHL plays the same times as ASU

So the plan in 5 years would be to have 33 teams and add them to the Pacific or Central again? That schedule is going to be a mess until they add a 34th.

As a yotes fan the thing that sucks the most is we always had a bad roster. Gm Armstrong turned it around and with all the chaos we finally had hope with our awesome young roster and now it's utahs. So getting a new team with unknown coach players and gm is it going to be another 5/6 years of basement dwelling? We all know after vkg super draft it's never going to be that easy again. Great job on this report.

Is attendance at a 4,500 seat facility “incredible” and a sign that it’s a good hockey market? It sounds like perhaps an unknown, a leap of faith that a new arena in a good location unlocks the potential of the hockey market.

I can't see Meruelo coming back from this press conference.. If the NHL ever returns to the desert it won't be with him as owner.

Not from Arizona, so I never really looked to see why this team is always is in this shape. Looking at the Phoenix area, the arena really should be downtown. And I know it's highly unlikely the Suns want to build a new one this early. If it doesn't workout in the next 5 years, the Suns will ready for a new arena in 10 years and thats when the nhl should try again.

Inactive is not quite unprecedented. Brooklyn Americans went 'inactive' during WWII. The team planned to build an arena in Brooklyn, but the NHL changed its mind in 46 and canceled the franchise (instead going forward with the 'Original Six).

Has no one ever heard of the Cleveland Browns? The NFL allowed the city to keep the name when the Ravens left.

I think the fact he isnt going to seek public dollars for an arena is awesome. I haye this trend sooooo much. These sre billion dollar franchises. They can afford their own arena. This is great to hear. It also shows a personal commitment. I generally look down on owners but i can give credit where its due.

Question… why did they have to move them this year if you knew that they would be in the facility for another year. Give the fans a final year, give Utah a year to get a name and colors. So why did it have to be now???

Not unprecedented to an have an inactive franchise. The Cleveland Browns became inactive and had the ownership transferred to the city of Cleveland when Art Model moved the team personnel to become the Baltimore Ravens after the 1995 season. Browns were reactivated in 1999.

If NHL expands to 33 where else do they eventually expand? Houston? San Diego? Portland?

Unmentioned in all of this is that Meruelo now has an extra $1 billion in his pocket, from Ryan Smith. That may allow him to actually succeed in reactivating the franchise, such as paying more at the June auction, for example. If he's willing to do so, but his track record on that is not great.

I feel like their best chance would be to wait until the Suns want to build a new arena and a new ownership group steps in. Meruelo is a clown.

There will be multiple bidders on that land. It’s in a weird spot for a successful stadium. They need a Plan B

Wonder if this guy could buy a baseball team in Oakland 🤔 its weird that here's an owner who wants to build on his dime and he's getting the same backlash as an owner begging and carpetbagging for public funds. Also, Bettman is better than Manfred, don't know his disciplinary record to say Goodell or Silver.

I’m gonna say Arizona Coyotes Way, Glendale, AZ it is light hundred percent is true it’s not and a 23 min

This is getting attention everywhere 😢

This his the be$t PLAY by PLAY ever.....Being a canadian and a hockey fan this his a desaster in slow motion....

What happened ? as a sports fan this is sad

No tax payer money … didn’t they have to move because they didn’t pay their own taxes? Weren’t they forced to pay for hotels ahead of road games due to not always paying their bills? I think this man is a conman.

Hes put the freeze so be can assess 2 things 1. Costs of keeping people 2. Who should be kept More layoffs will come. But he cant let the whole org go. He needs to keeo some things in place because he needs to be able to standup on 3 - 4 years and get right back and you dont want to lose institutional knowledge

The problem is that reactivation would require them to have 33 teams, so would they expand the playoffs if Coyotes come back?

Oh those poor grown babies! They had to play in a brand new college arena & make all that money. Everybody needs a new stadium every 10 years ..5,000 seat arena would have taught people that the game is a lot better & cheaper from home.

Wow easy first question lol

Those yote fans need to calm down with Alex because he the only one that wants them back

This also reeks of cali golden seal '70's mess where after 8 seasons of losses, losing, sparce crowds seals move to cleveland in '76 only to be plagued by more losses, players not getting paid, and nhl loaning barons $$$'s to make payroll to finish '76, '77 season. Then to rid nhl of this shitstain they merged barons with north stars as they got all baron players/assets in deal as barons were 'dissolved' as a franchise as seal/baron owners gunds took ownership of north stars. Then in '90 with met center falling apart gunds wanted to move north stars and return to bay area. In '91 gunds sold north stars to n green and got rights to bay area expansion team with new arena coming to sj the sharks who got a dispersal draft of n star players plus expansion draft in deal..

Atlanta now has a third interested ownership group for an expansion team.

You should do a full breakdown of the Utah press conference with Gary and the Smiths’ let’s to unpack. It holds 17,000 seats for hockey, but 12,000 are “perfect views”, so 5,000 obstructed views. Ryan doesn’t want to build a new arena for 30 years and wants to keep also an amazing basketball arena and make minor improvements for hockey seating without jeopardizing the nba experience ru-vid.com4uWP9t6ZFQs?si=fnAYuuLP5MDjyS_s

Same old NHL joke that’s what you get when you bring someone in from the NBA to run your freaking hockey league

The Coyotes owner is brutal. Every time He opens his mouth . - being top 10 in revenue? 😂😂

Cleveland browns were inactive

Is it safe to assume that the League got tense earlier this season when they were playing well and started pressuring Alex to move or sell?

Watching the presser yesterday, it's obvious why they had him under gag order. Wow. Now you know why Bettman is the commissioner because he has to deal with clown owners like this. You can tell Gary just wanted to say "please, shut up, Alex. Shut up."

Coyotes leaving Phoenix is sad, but their owner didn't care enough to keep them there. He cut bait, sold and made a whale of a profit. Ryan Smith cares about his teams and his fans. This franchise will thrive in Salt Lake City and this grows the game. This will be only the 2nd NHL team in the Rocky mountain region and give us hockey fans in the region another team to root for. Until someone steps up and supports hockey in Phoenix, the Coyotes may never be reborn......

Best commissioner in all of sports.

Good riddance merulo, this neverending az. story, and to bettman's wet dream of az. hockey succeeding. And ahl move to mullett is to fulfil merulo lease there.

"Because I don't like the media." Had to double take. I thought it was a Donald Trump interview for a second. 25:48

HES RIGHT SCREW THE MEDIA!!

Well that was interesting. Bettman is becoming the cranky old man whose patience are running thin with questions he doesn't like. I loved how he looked at his watch...which is a no-no in these types of situations when you're attempting to promote a level of sincerity with the public. Mereullo needed to be bailed out twice by Bettman because of his inability to be self-aware just enough to govern how he says things...he was unprepared and it showed. That and his P.T. Barnum promo on Arizona being a Top 10 NHL market regarding revenue and his alleged 7 million dollars spent on the failed Tempe '23 arena vote...I can tell you, the reader, that my confidence in him isn't exactly taking up residence in the stratosphere. To be fair a lot of what was collectively articulated was accurate/factual regarding the viability of the Coyotes ongoing situation in the Valley, which has been a comedy of failures since their arrival in 1996. Bettman flat out stated toward the conclusion that a lot of money was lost....no kidding. That seemed to unnerve Meruello further.... The only uplifting thing is in Bettman's position regarding the future of the Coyotes...sort of uplifting..... IF Meruello is up to that challenge and able to overcome any possible obstacles that present themselves. Is he up to it? He didn't convince me in this press conference but I guess the first test will be that land auction on 06/27/2024, which he must win to move the confidence needle in the correct direction toward deactivation of the expansion Coyotes. Imagine if he fails to win that auction or he does win the auction but loses it because something was done wrong that disqualifies his acquisition? It could happen. Wealth is not a promise of brains, but i digress. A lot of sports fans operate on faith...which is a foolish way to operate, as it is by its own definition a belief in something without evidence, which I've found to be in direct odds with Critical Thinking, of which the latter is what gets things done. When it comes to NHL hockey in Arizona, one should demand that evidence, so I'm unconvinced until I see ground being broken for a new hockey arena, at a location that is logical/sustainable...whatever. Like Han Solo in "The Empire Strikes Back" the Arizona Coyote is now frozen in carbonite...Mereullo will either be a combination of Princess Leia, Lando Calrissian, and Luke Skywalker in freeing that Coyote or Meruello will be Jabba the Hut, pocketing the 1 billion bounty while keeping his prized exhibit frozen indefinitely as a part of his collection, while Bettman as Darth Vader watches from the confines of his super star destroyer in a galaxy that is far, far away from Phoenix, Arizona. Coming to a theatre near you....

This franchise has been an absolute sh!t show for almost 30 years. Combine the long list of terrible owners, and bad NHL executive decisions and here we are. At the top of the food chain in all of this, has been Gary. Gary needs to take the brunt of the criticism for getting us to this point.

No body supported the Coyotes more than Bettman. Including the Arizona fans who only started to care once they were leaving. All of his rhetoric is him trying to save face for backing a losing locale. The NHL will never go back to the desert. A mistake from the beginning.

Hi brodie I don't always agree with you especially when it comes to the as but this man basically list his team because of political bullshit so when you do your videos on the a"s remember alex tried over and over again again

Before I go any further into the video. This owner talks about building relationships. Let’s see he’s alienated every player and staff member who’s walked into the Yotes facility. He’s not once talked to the only reporter who has been around the team in 28yrs (Craig Morgan), oh and the most famous Coyote Shane Dian, that had he been involved at all probably would have saved this franchise. But no the owner didn’t want Shane around. So I love hockey, but this guy and his family some how some way need to leave and let an owner who knows how to run a sports organization operate it. Thank you Brodie for your coverage

The fans will never support a team owned by this guy again

Brodie, If you factor in the necessary renovation of the Delta Center, then the timeline of building a new arena in SLC, in the best-case scenario it is feasible that an arena in AZ could be completed before one in SLC. This is not to absolve Muerelo Group, it’s just math. The Delta Center isn’t exactly NHl ready either. The whole thing is a mess.

Insufferable to listen to these two snooty egomaniacs rush through their prepared statements, shrug off all the ways they failed the fans, and then get angry at the media for holding them accountable. My god

He better not take tucson roadrunners away from us the fans

Odd how we're supposed to feel bad for Arizona losing a team, but when it happens to Oakland it's deserved and the crime issue gets brought up. I wonder why...

Gary seemed like a dad trying to cover for his screw up son or a defense attorney yelling objection to every question. What a train wreck driven by two clown operators. PS: great job Brodie!

I bet that if Alex Meruelo wins the land auction and follows through with the new building that the NHL will move the Winnipeg Jets to Arizona then expand to Houston and Atlanta.

Bettman is so rude. Anyway, I hope the Roadrunners stay based in Tucson, but play select games in Phoenix (maybe 10?). Phoenix may be so upset with ownership and losing their NHL franchise that they won't support the Roadrunners. Meanwhile, don't destroy pro hockey throughout Arizona by also penalizing the fans in Tucson.

The Coyotes have been a ridiculous shit show for years. What are they smoking ?

This press conference was ugly.

Salt Lake Fan and new hockey fan here. . This is alot of coping and honestly lame excuses and total disrespect for the commissioner. How it is possible that a market the size of Phoenix with all of its advantages over Utah can not get an arena deal done over the course of 27 years. 27 years. That's frankly a joke and is not indicative of a real big time market. The ONLY people that are to blame are the local leaders there and that community. All this whining and complaining when you can't get any arena deal in 27 years.... it's embarrassing. Then to chant Salt Lake sucks... hmmm, who has stepped up and who hasn't???

"I don't like the media"-- arrogance much? Good lord, talk about stepping in it...

Really unfortunate and the fans are the victims here. The commissioner comes off as an arrogant, and pompous individual here. Just how I received him

Wow them at the A’s no home!! He gave a Donald reply regarding unpaid bills. Not liking the media is a self inflicted injury. Ouch. Good luck patching those holes.

Just move the coyotes to Houston, I'm upset that we lost the only Columbus Phoenix rivalry in sports.