The New York Post Broke The News That The Coyotes Are All Set To Move To Vegas, Which the NHL Immediately Denied
NY Post - Sin City is getting hockey, two sources close to the situation told The Post. The NHL is arranging the sale of the Arizona Coyotes to billionaire William Foley, who will move the team to Las Vegas, giving it its first major professional franchise, one source said. “Las Vegas has reached 10,000 season ticket deposits,” enough to justify a franchise, the other source said. Foley will move them for the 2016-17 season, the source said. The Post last year was the first to reportFoley was backing a Vegas franchise. MGM Resorts and arena operator AEG are building a 20,000-seat, hockey-ready arena in Las Vegas that is slated to open in spring 2016. A Coyotes spokesman said, “The Coyotes are committed to playing in Arizona.” When asked for how long, the spokesman reiterated the team was committed to playing in Arizona. “Period.” Arizona last year ranked 28th in attendance. The NHL denied the story.
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Last night news broke that the Coyotes are all set to move from the desert to another desert and settle into their new home on the strip in Vegas, giving Jarret Stoll the biggest boner of all time. But not so fast, Jarret.
Bettman came out of nowhere last night and immediately denied any truth to the story. Which was interesting, almost like he denied it too quickly, especially after the city of Glendale terminated the Coyotes lease. Them terminating the lease pretty much leaves the Yoes homeless but kinda not, I’m still confused by the entire situation. But when it comes down to it, Bettman denied the move to drive up the price of a possible expansion team, because the NHL makes a billion more dollars when they make a new team in Vegas as opposed to moving one there. Obviously nobody in Arizona gives a fuck about the Coyotes besides that one girl who cried on camera, so why not just let them pack up a few trucks and move up North and play in front of blacked out tourists and really rich businessmen? The only problem I see is they built the arena to hold 20,000 people. The thing is MASSIVE. Bigger than Staples Center in LA. If they can pack the bottom level of the arena for hockey games with 10,000 blacked out, belligerent fans and allow in-game betting live from your seat, it would be well-worth going to see a game there.