What happens NEXT for Arizona Coyotes fans?

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As an Utah sports fan, I am beyond excited to be getting the NHL in my hometown and am certainly going to be a diehard. It stinks, however, that all that has to come at the expense of the fans in Arizona losing their team. My heart goes out to them - I hope hockey returns to the desert soon. I will be cheering hard for Alex to win the land auction and get the barn built.

Regarding local hockey in Phoenix- the NHL leaving is not a certain death knell. Since the Thrashers left Atlanta, the local leagues have grown. We got a couple of new rinks and at least 1 new junior club.

I was a Thrasher season ticket holder / super fan from day one until relocation. It sucked so badly to see them move so I feel horrible for the Coyotes fans. Also listening to other fans applaud the team moving to a ‘real’ hockey market stung. As a Canadian I was glad the moved to Winnipeg though (Quebec City would have been fine too). Watching the Jets play their first game felt like watching my wife get railed by another guy. I spent the entire summer of 2011 lamenting the loss of my beloved hockey team. In the fall of 2011 however was the airline crash killing almost the entire Yaroslavl Lokomotiv hockey hockey team. This event immediately changed my perspective on what ‘losing your hockey team’ can really mean. It sobered me right up.

The Tucson Roadrunners are the AHL affiliate of the team that is now moving to Utah. Meanwhile, the Utah Grizzlies are the ECHL affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche....

Brodie I watch your drops everyday. Love the format. Very succinct reporting and you capture the essence of the story. Great points in this one about youth hockey and hockey fans in the Phoenix area. I was at the game where Josh Doan got his first 2 goals. There are many great fans in that city. They deserve another franchise that should be run to the standard the fans deserve.

As a fan i know the feeling of losing a team via relocation it hurts

Crazy that I saw the Coyotes in Melbourne, Australia before the season started and that was their final season, as we know it. I joked Gary made them go after Vancouver refused.

Alex Meruelo was NOT at the arena tonight for their last game. If that's not a slap in the face, I don't know what is.

as a decades long hockey fan, and a yotes fan as long as the kings werent in town.. as someone who went to 30+ home games one season, i can say without any doubt that i give zero sh!ts about hockey in PHX if its still under the ownership of the mierdas. Really left a bad taste in my mouth and no way Id continue to support the same facilitators of this effery..

I remember when the Nordiques left Quebec City in 1995, not because of lack of revenues and arena, they left because the ownership group weren’t ready to gamble their money in a league without salary cap and hockey revenues redistribution, wich are in place now. The whole community was devastated. Then the wound slowly started to heal, until the Stanley Cup playoffs, where the Avalanche, our former team, won the Stanley Cup. That was a major blow to a traditional hockey market, from 1996 to 2003 I fully gave up on NHL hockey. I feel for people of Arizona, losing your team sucks, but at least they have commitments from the league to get a team back, even if the team had no home for the last few years, went bankrupt, had several scandals related to ownership…but in my hometown, Quebec City, new potential ownership invested in a brand new state of the art arena, they have deep pockets and their own sports network and the league keeps saying no, wich is really frustrating. The local junior team sold out 18,000 seats in the last playoffs, hockey in Quebec City is a religion and the NHL is more focused on new markets and revenues than the fans…good luck Arizona

The Roadrunners will have better support in Tucson than in Phoenix...... Coyotes fans will opt for ASU over a Meruelo-owned AHL team.

They still make merchandise for the Whalers and Nordiques, don’t see why the Coyotes would be any different.

One of the challenges with youth hockey in areas where there are limited ice rinks is that there is competition for ice time during the limited amount of time after school. I'm in Southern California, and there are people (especially parents) involved in the major youth teams who don't care how many kids are playing ice hockey. They don't see any value in a 12 year old who can't skate taking ice time away from skilled 12 year olds. They feel more skilled 12 year olds are lost due to not getting ice time after school and instead having to get up at 6am to go to the rink, so they quit and start playing lacrosse or basketball. Getting those new to hockey to show up at a rink at 6am is impossible. The argument is that more kids will want to play hockey if there are draft picks and superstars from the region - so putting all their resources into a limited number of potential NHL players is the goal - and this is happening in some areas of Southern California where the best ice time is going to support those top-tier players and girls and older new players aren't seen as important. But in terms of growth of hockey, older kids and teens playing and learning the sport is crucial. My cousin played hockey in Scottsdale in the 1980s. He's not some star player, he's a hockey fan (now in Colorado). There are only a few players who will make the NHL, but to support an NHL team there needs to be more hockey fans. And playing hockey is one of the best ways for people to gain hockey knowledge and love of the sports.

If Phoenix gets another NHL team, I bet the Tucson team is sold (while keeping the Roadrunners name in Arizona) to a group that moves the team out of state (Boise?), and the Roadrunners start from scratch as the Coyotes' AHL affiliate without missing a beat.

Don't move any of the Roadrunners home games to Phoenix. First, if a big city is used to NHL hockey, it's doubtful an AHL team will be much of an attraction. Second, if it ain't broke, don't fix it - if the Roadrunners have good fan support in Tucson, don't take it away from them just because Phoenix lost their NHL team - they'll likely resent it and may not return. Finally, as Bruiser Brodie pointed out, the AHL affiliate of the Utah team would really go over well with Coyotes fans.

Btw Brodie, totally off topic but did you see the smile on Hertl's face the other day when he scored the GWG against the Avs??? Glad to see that Hertl smile is back, just like the good ol days down at the Shark Tank!!!

1 or 2 Exhibition games per season would help keep people interested with Vegas, LA, Anaheim, Dallas, and yes even Utah

Brodie, I really like your knowledge of this story. Just curious, is this similar to what the Oakland franchise is going through? Thank you for sharing your thoughts/ knowledge on this

Its a highly populated market phoenix,but theres no interest in building exceptable arena,and salt lake smaller market surprised they got team.