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Phoenix Coyotes Need Arena Deal To Fight Off Relocation

Phoenix Coyotes Need Arena Deal To Fight Off Relocation

The Phoenix Coyotes may be in jeopardy if they can’t come to an agreement on an arena deal in the city of Glendale. The team has until July 2 to come to an agreement, but if it doesn’t happen the NHL will look into moving the team. Renaissance Sports & Entertainment has agreed to purchase […]

11y ago

Vancouver Canucks Shutout Phoenix Coyotes 2-0

Vancouver Canucks Shutout Phoenix Coyotes 2-0

The Vancouver Canucks shutout the Phoenix Coyotes 2-0 Monday night for their third straight win and 50th point of the season. The Canucks were led by Ryan Kesler, who scored the game-winning goal just over seven minutes into the first period. Kevin Bieksa took a slap shot from the point, which Kesler knocked in after […]

11y ago

Ducks Win 2-0 In Third Straight With Coyotes

Ducks Win 2-0 In Third Straight With Coyotes

The Anaheim Ducks win 2-0 in their third game against the Phoenix Coyotes in five days. The Ducks lost the first two games 5-4 respectively, both ending in shootouts. The shut out win Wednesday was much needed for the Ducks, who had lost two-in-a-row for the first time all season leading up to the third […]

11y ago

NHL Player Brett MacLean Suffers Apparent Heart Attack

NHL Player Brett MacLean Suffers Apparent Heart Attack

Brett MacLean, 23, of the NHL Phoenix Coyotes suffered reportedly suffered a “cardiac emergency” during a pick-up hockey game in Ontario last night. EMTs evidently administered CPR at the rink, and MacLean was taken to a local hospital and then later transported by air ambulance to Knight University Hospital in London, Ontario, where he was […]

12y ago

Raffi Torres Suspended For 25 Games For Marian Hossa Hit

Raffi Torres Suspended For 25 Games For Marian Hossa Hit

Phoenix Coyote’s Raffi Torres has been suspended for 25 games by the NHL for his hit on Chicago Blackhaw’s Marian Hossa. Torres will miss the rest of the playoffs and will most likely miss several games at the start of the 2012 season. The NHL made the announcement this morning. The Blackhawks and Coyotes will […]

12y ago

Jonathan Toews Returns to Blackhawks Lineup For NHL Playoffs

Jonathan Toews Returns to Blackhawks Lineup For NHL Playoffs

Jonathan Toews is back. The Chicago Blackhawks star has missed the final 22 games of the regular season but will return to the lineup tonight as the Hawks face off against the Phoenix Coyotes in the first round of the NHL playoffs. The Blackhawks made the announcement with a simple statement on Twitter: Yes. He’s […]

12y ago

Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars sale update

Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars sale update

Currently the NHL has three franchises for sale. The Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues, and Dallas Stars. Of course given the state of the economy these sales are tough, but several local problems have also hampered the progress of the sales of these three clubs. The Coyotes have been for sale for years, and the […]

13y ago

Has the NHL been unfair to the Phoenix Coyotes?

Has the NHL been unfair to the Phoenix Coyotes?

I am not a big fan of the Phoenix Coyotes, or their less than suitable location. However, it now seems like the team and its fans are kind of getting a raw deal. The NHL has allowed this situation fester for far too long. At times it seems they are using the sale and possible […]

13y ago

Glendale, Az coughs up 25 million bucks for Phoenix Coyotes

Glendale, Az coughs up 25 million bucks for Phoenix Coyotes

The situation for the Phoenix Coyotes seems like a never ending cycle of really bad news. This team struggles to turn a profit, several different groups have been interested in buying it, and yet the taxpayers of Arizona are continaully asked to shell out more and more money to keep their hockey team. The city […]

13y ago

The future of the Phoenix Coyotes remains in doubt

The future of the Phoenix Coyotes remains in doubt

This has been going on for years now, and the more I look into it the more Phoenix feels like a square hole with which the NHL is trying to pound the round peg of the Coyotes into. This team has not done well on the ice recently nor in the books. They have lost […]

13y ago

This is why cities should not build facilities for pro sports teams

This is why cities should not build facilities for pro sports teams

I guess the good news in all of this is that hockey fans in Phoenix, Arizona will get to keep the Coyotes in Glendale, Arizona. The bad news is it is going to cost the residents of the city a heck of a lot of money. It looks like the latest deal is to give […]

14y ago

Glendale, AZ finally gives the Phoenix Coyotes a new lease

Glendale, AZ finally gives the Phoenix Coyotes a new lease

Finally one of the uglier chapters in recent sports business history is at an end. The city of Glendale, Arizona has agreed to a new lease on jobing.com arena for the Phoenix Coyotes. Now the NHL, who brought the team out of bankruptcy, can find a new owner for the team and the word is […]

14y ago

2010 Phoenix Coyotes Preview

2010 Phoenix Coyotes Preview

Without a doubt the Phoenix Coyotes were the most surprising team in the NHL last season. They ended up as teh #4 seed in the Western Conference and with home ice advantage in the first round of the NHLK playoffs. It seems this once hapless organization has turned a new corner and that their new […]

14y ago

Did Phoenix ever deserve to have a NHL franchise?

Did Phoenix ever deserve to have a NHL franchise?

The Winnipeg Jets moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1996 due to their inability to keep star players in Winnipeg and because Winnipeg featured a hockey arena that was the smallest in the league. The problem with the move is it was essentially doomed from day one. The Coyotes have never turned a profit in Arizona […]

15y ago

Jerry Moyes agrees to sell the Phoenix Coyotes

Jerry Moyes agrees to sell the Phoenix Coyotes

After an underhanded attempt to sell the Phoenix Coyotes after the NHL had stepped in to help with payroll dollars, a bankruptcy fight that went on and on over the summer, and after losing millions upon millions of dollars, Jerry Moyes has finally agreed to sell his team back to the NHL. Of course the […]

15y ago

Coyotes sell out home opener, disappoint fans

Coyotes sell out home opener, disappoint fans

They called it the whiteout. The Phoenix Coyotes slashed prices for their home opener, and gave away white T-shirts in an effort to not only attract fans to the team, but to give their hockey team an emotional boost. Really though this was an attempt by management to prove that the Coyotes are a viable […]

15y ago

Wayne Gretzky steps down as Coyotes coach

Wayne Gretzky steps down as Coyotes coach

Wayne Gretzky resigned as coach of the Phoenix Coyotes today. This is yet another example of a great player not being able to become a great coach, and to be fair to the Great One, he wasn’t even a mediocre coach. Granted a lot of his failures as a coach stemmed from the team he […]

15y ago

Could Moyes remain in control of the Coyotes?

Could Moyes remain in control of the Coyotes?

As a sports business reporter, and Journalist in general, following the saga of the Phoenix Coyotes has been a truly great story. I have been following this story for well over a year now, and I am a little embarrassed that I never considered the idea of Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes could remain in control […]

15y ago

Judge wants two more days to ponder bids for the Coyotes

Judge wants two more days to ponder bids for the Coyotes

It seems the Judge presiding over the Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy hearings as a style more conductive to letting the parties involved, work out their issues amongst themselves. However, since there is so much animosity between the NHL and Canadian businessman Jim Balsillie that at some pint he is going to have to make a ruling […]

15y ago

NHL plans to extort Balsillie

NHL plans to extort Balsillie

This story seems to prove two different things. First that the fight over the Coyotes is so ugly, so personal that the NHL is willing to go to any lengths to keep Jim Balsillie out of their league. Second the NHL is willing to charge Balsillie a relocation fee that is greater than the leagues […]

15y ago

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