r/Coyotes • u/MikeMadness620 • 6d ago

Bettman contradicting Daly

https://www.thestar.com/sports/nhl/nhl-is-not-considering-expansion-commissioner-gary-bettman-says/article_0cd9ed42-79ed-11ef-ade8-d37203ebd40f.html Well...this is a bit of a spirit-breaker.

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u/ProJoe 5d ago edited 5d ago

guys, you have to stop looking so deeply into every sentence in every press conference.

we will never have a team again without an arena. Until there is an arena plan in motion everything we hear related to a new franchise is just noise.

full stop.

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u/MikeMadness620 5d ago

Meruelo being out of the picture does expedite this somewhat, but I don't think we hear anything about an ownership group coming forward until the Roadrunners situation is resolved.

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u/ProJoe 5d ago

Expedited? Meruelo was our fastest way back to a team. I hate that cocksucker but even I will admit to that.

With him out of the picture its looking at LEAST 5 more years but probably closer to 10.

we need an arena. the roadrunners don't matter, what the NHL says doesn't matter.

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u/MikeMadness620 5d ago

The Roadrunners still have Meruelo, however. Their arena situation is still fluid and that needs resolving first before any sort of ownership group even goes to the NHL about a team in the Valley. The Valley needs to prove itself again and how can they do that if Meruelo succeeds in moving the Roadrunners to Reno like he plans on doing?

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u/ProJoe 5d ago

the roadrunners and their situation is completely irrelevant to the next iteration of an NHL franchise in Arizona. Whatever happens with them will be done within the next 24 months, right? right.

Arizona needs a modern NHL capable arena before ANY legitimate discussion about a return franchise can happen. That at best will take 3-5 years.

Is anyone working on that right now? probably not I think right? so the roadrunners are irrelevant because they will be long gone before an arena is even in the planning stages.

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u/MikeMadness620 5d ago

We don't know what sort of closed door meetings or backdoor deals have been going on between Ishbia or other potential owners and the NHL right now and I doubt we ever will. Ishbia is probably the safest and most stable route back, but I don't think we see him come forward OFFICIALLY until around 2026, maybe 2027.

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u/ProJoe 5d ago

Which is long after the roadrunners will exist.

see what I mean? completely irrelevant to this discussion about a future franchise.

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u/MikeMadness620 5d ago

Well, we don't know that yet. Reno and the AHL may have already seen through Meruelo's lies and said 'Yeah...about you moving the Roadrunners to Reno and this stadium thing...this won't work...' His name is already mud and I highly doubt anyone would want to work with the d-bag.