There could be some potential clarity coming on the post-Arizona State University living situation for the Arizona Coyotes. The City Council of Tempe, AZ is set to discuss the team’s proposed arena and entertainment district plan in a June 2 meeting, according to PHNX Sports’ Craig Morgan.
Earlier this year, the Coyotes closed on a multi-year agreement to play their home games at the new multipurpose arena at ASU. With the capacity at this arena expected to be under 5,000 fans, it’s painstakingly obvious that this isn’t a long-term solution. The team, however, still doesn’t have a solid future after the agreement with the school ends.
Enter Tempe, where the Coyotes have been trying to forge a home for years. The entire point of the ASU agreement is to hopefully build a relationship with the Tempe community, demonstrating to the city that the struggling team is worth housing.
The team is locked into ASU for three seasons with the option for a fourth. If the team wants to ensure they’ll be able to stay in the desert at the end of that deal, time is starting to tick on the Coyotes to get the city of Tempe to approve an arena deal.
“An 18,000 seat multi-purpose arena built with taxpayer money? Oh no, sorry. We do have a nice parking lot that you can set up inflatable boards and a few lawn chairs, though.” – Tempe
“We’ll take it!” – Yotes
@forwhomjoshbelltolled – And, don’t forget the artificial ice – guaranteed to be “just as good” as the frozen water stuff, and playable up to 120 degrees! A hat trick, natural tan, then off to Apache Junction for post-game festivities.
Tempe wants the Yotes. You are going to be disappointed.
Phoenix is a major metro area. You should remove your head from your ass.
So what? There are lots of major metro areas out there. The simple fact of the matter is that Phoenix won’t support a NHL team. They’ve averaged as much as 15000 only TWICE in over twenty years. Take your head out of your own ass. All you’re doing here is trolling.
Az will support an NHL team the problem with the stadium right now is it’s in Glendale if you look at the map of Phoenix it is a large Valley I’m making this simple because you didn’t seem to understand that when you made your comment most of the snowbirds live on the east side of the valley so that would make it almost 150 Mi round trip now Tempe which is part of the east valley where most of the snowbirds are at would only be 30 mile round trip as well as Scottsdale and the city which is closer yet it all boils down to the placement of the stadium in Glendale which is not conducive to anybody in the Phoenix ,Scottsdale cottsdale orthe East Valley
Phoenix IS a major metro area…that particularly dislikes public funding for sports teams…and doesn’t care much about hockey.
Good luck.
AzTigersfan, there’ve been plenty of people with plenty of excuses over the years as to why fans don’t turn out for Coyotes games. Be it Glendale or Tempe or Scottsdale or Phoenix itself, there’s always some complex explanation why THAT site doesn’t fly, but surely THIS town does.
Me, I don’t want to hear “ohhh, it takes 45 minutes to drive to X, that’s too long.” Garbage: taking the subway into Boston to see the Bruins play, something I did on and off for decades, 45 minutes was the MINIMUM trip. Either you are a hockey fan or you’re not. If Arizona “fans” refuse to commute more than strolling distance to see a team play, give the team to a fanbase that will actually turn out, without needing excuses.
Take Buffalo. The team’s been lousy for a record amount of time. It’s a smaller metro area than Phoenix. A substantial amount of its fanbase has to CROSS AN INTERNATIONAL BORDER. And it still outdraws the Coyotes, and always has had.
The coyotes haven’t been a good team for a long time. So there are not a lot of local fans. The majority of there fans are transplants. Hence when Canadian teams show up lots of visiting teams fans, it goes for Red Wings, Rangers, Buffalo etc….. it will always be that way till there a better team.
Excuse #1. There are too many obstructed view seats at America West Arena
Excuse #2. There’s too much traffic on I-10 to get to Glendale
Excuse #3. George Zraket sabotaged the Coyotes arena proposal in Scottsdale
Next excuse. Those Canadians are buying all the tickets and cheering for the opponent so Coyotes fans can’t get tickets.
Following excuse. There are so many moving parts, lenders are afraid of a bogus lawsuit from Sky Harbor Airport.
Glendale isn’t that hard to get to from the East Valley, the 202 South Mountain Freeway opened in 2020 and it now takes less than 20 minutes to get from Chandler to 59th Avenue and I-10. Most Coyotes fans live in the North Valley near Desert Ridge, and now that ADOT widened the 101 it only takes 20 minutes to go from Desert Ridge to Glendale.
The bottom line is when a place is so hot there’s water in the rivers only once every 10 years and the percentage of Mexicans (who will never care about hockey and love futball) keep climbing, and there are so many things to do in winter that hockey will never succeed in Arizona.
The Coyotes are Not To have any emblems of the team on the ice or on the boards or visual in the arena
Move them to Kansas City
Kansas City can’t support the Royals. Why would you think they can support the Coyotes?
Move to Houston
Phoenix is better than Houston.
Cooperdooper7
No arena capacity at the Toyota Center. The Coyotes would need a new arena. The Aeros were shipped off to Iowa to free up dates at the Toyota Center.
Move to Quebec
Quebec already proved they can’t support an NHL franchise.
No, what Quebec already proved is that Bettman will do just about anything to take teams from the north and jam them into the Sun Belt. Only ONCE in the last dozen years has the Coyotes averaged more fans over a single season than the WORST record the Nordiques had in the Colisee.
betterthanyou is right. i bet the yotes get close to selling out every game next year
I’m thinking about trying out for Arizona, I’m not good but but it would be fun to watch and at this point what’s there to lose?