Sure they were getting better, but it’s no surprise that the excitement started ramping up once WW died and it became clear his son was both reaching out to spurned fans and bringing the team into the 21st century, were we could enjoy trivial things like, say, broadcasting a majority of their games on TV.

Anyway, I’m digressing, and I actually agree that they need to try to keep the Jackets in Columbus. But Phoenix? I’m still not convinced.

Yawn, old man Coyotes is still sleeping……..

Then why is your IP Address based out of Quebec?

Hmmm…. Another Canadian trying to mask loyalty for his country just so that they can talk sh** about an American team.
Get over it already!!!!

While my friends and I are avid fans of the Phoenix Coyotes, and would like them to stay, we now agree this train wreck of a team has to leave Arizona and find a new home elsewhere.

This has been 3 years of a roller coaster ride, with no end in sight any time soon. As fans we are tired, tired, tired of all the BS. All the suing, and then Jamison has the money, and now he doesn’t have the money. If you desperately want to keep the Coyotes here, as you so often state in the Press, then drop the price $20 million so Jamison has got his money, and get on with it. Otherwise, as the old adage goes, “either s–t or get off the pot.

This has got to end.

Any future or potential fans you might have drawn in with a terrific season the Coyotes had, you are furthering alienation by allowing this travesty to continue on.

Either help Jamison by dropping $20 million off the price tag, or remove the team. We are fed up here in Arizona and want an end to this agonizing problem, and pronto.

Cherry: hey LA, I will trade you 3 first rounders for that Richardson guy.
LA: Deal
Cherry: good ol Mike Richardson, for a few picks I get a former flyers captain
MacLean: you mean Mike Richards?
Cherry: right… So who did I just get for 3 picks then?

If they move, Jim Balsillie was right and Bettman was wrong. That cannot be allowed.

I had Blackhawks season tickets from 1998-2004 when I moved away. Look up their record during that time span. I knew everyone in my section on a first name basis, because there were probably 10 of us. I’m a Blackhawks fan to the bone, and I have the tattoo to prove it. It kills me when people talk about how great of a hockey market Chicago is…it isn’t. As soon as the Hawks start losing, or as soon as one of the “core” is moved, fans will stop coming, just like they did in the mid-90′s. The United Center when the Hawks were bad makes Nationwide Arena in Columbus look like a sold out Rolling Stones concert.

The Blue Jackets do have fans…I’ve seen and met them. They’re dying for a reason to start going to games again. While I can’t back fair-weather fans, all markets have them. Can you blame someone for not wanting to shell out $30-100 per game on that organization as it is currently? From your username, I’m assuming you’re a Flyers fan. Let them finish dead last for a decade, with an inept front office and a roster of 3rd liners…see how thriving that market would look.

The “Goldwater nonsense” as you put it is to stop politicians from giving away public funds to whoever purchases the Yotes, as that is against the law in Arizona. And I can’t really fault them.

Why should the public give their money to some gazillionaire in order to let the gazillionaire own the local sports team? If it’s the public’s money, just let the public own the team and reap the benefits. To many of these recent deals to purchase the Yotes read that as soon as the owner risks losing money the taxpayer forks over funds to the owner to cover the loss.

If they could just trade places we’d have another well-run NHL team in a thriving market and whatever the hell is going on in Phoenix would be circling the toilet bowl of NHL franchises, either to finally relocate or just force the NHL to contract and be done with it.

Like someone else said the last time this came up: Sorry, (not enough) Phoenix fans.

Once there’s an arena finished that could support them (Quebec City or Seattle, for example), I think they’ll be moved or folded at that point. I’m sorry, Phoenix fans…but unless a serious and big time investor steps forward, I don’t know that you’re going to keep your team. : /