Why hasn't the Phoenix Coyotes deal been completed yet?

It feels like it's been ages since the court case ended and Ice Edge Holdings got the right to bid. Since then they've signed an intent to purchase agreement and then things have gone rather quiet. What is holding this up? The Lightning sale went relatively quickly whereas this just seems to be going nowhere.

Who cares? they got sold for less then Jimmy B offered and the team is winning?

Here's to playing in front of 6500 on a nightly basis and keeping Buttmasn happy.

Ignorance... let them be good for a few years until you judge their attendance. Not every city has hockey in their blood.

Who cares? they got sold for less then Jimmy B offered and the team is winning?

Here's to playing in front of 6500 on a nightly basis and keeping Buttmasn happy.

Yeah, you didn't pull that number out your ass.

Who cares? they got sold for less then Jimmy B offered and the team is winning?

Here's to playing in front of 6500 on a nightly basis and keeping Buttmasn happy.

But The sunbelt teams are making the league so profitable

Who cares? they got sold for less then Jimmy B offered and the team is winning?

Here's to playing in front of 6500 on a nightly basis and keeping Buttmasn happy.

The Coyotes haven't drawn a crowd of 6500 since early November. way to pull a number out of your ass.

Yeah, you didn't pull that number out your ass.

Not outta my ass... Ive taken numbers reported through various North American talk shows, and come to my own conclusions... Which ends with PHX not deserving of a NHL franchise.

Here's to playing in front of 6500 on a nightly basis and keeping Buttmasn happy.

Ignorance...

Speaking of ignorance....

Not outta my ass... Ive taken numbers reported through various North American talk shows, and come to my own conclusions... Which ends with PHX not deserving of a NHL franchise.

Because the Media never LIES, right?:shakehead

It feels like it's been ages since the court case ended and Ice Edge Holdings got the right to bid. Since then they've signed an intent to purchase agreement and then things have gone rather quiet. What is holding this up? The Lightning sale went relatively quickly whereas this just seems to be going nowhere.

Go into the Biz of Hockey forum but as far as I know the Lightning haven't just come out of bankruptcy and the process is a little different for IEH than it was for the Bolts Ownership.

Because the Media never LIES, right?:shakehead

Steve Wilkos is in the media and he never lies

Ignorance... let them be good for a few years until you judge their attendance. Not every city has hockey in their blood.

Considering what is going on with ownership its hard to imagine they'd be exactly bleeding massive fan support.



The Penguins had one godawful year of attendance when things were at their worst with the ownership issue. There were a couple years surrounding that weren't too good either, but one year was about 3,000 per game below the others...it wasn't that people weren't caring about the team (going by memory I think Pittsburgh was behind only Buffalo and Detroit by television ratings that season), the casual fan (which, like it or not, comprises the bulk of any team's fan base) doesn't want to sink a lot of money into a team that might not be there in a few months.

Season tickets are a huge chunk of ticket sales, and selling Coyotes season tickets this past off-season had to be like trying to sell ice to an Alaskan.



The Coyotes have never had a consistently decent team, and have had great uncertainties the past few years on top of it all...if their attendance numbers are still lousy in 3-4 years of what they've got going now...then you can probably cast them off as a legitimate market, but I think you'll see a huge boost in season ticket sales next season, which will mean a huge boost in overall ticket sales. Attendance numbers are very much linked to that season ticket sales number...the quality of a team usually has a bigger effect on the team the following season than the current season because of this.

What was their attendance yesterday, 15k?

Because the Media never LIES, right?:shakehead

as an unbiased reader i am lead on to believe they tell me the truth and only the truth.

i agree that the phoenix market is important to any major industry.

the nhl should tilt the outcome for the stanley cup to phoenix this year to ensure their survival, just like they did in '99 for the stars and in '04 for the lightning.

Season tickets are a huge chunk of ticket sales, and selling Coyotes season tickets this past off-season had to be like trying to sell ice to an Alaskan.
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It was worse then that... We went from ROughly 10,500 STH last season to barely 5000 due to the BS Moyes and Ballsack pulled over the summer. Those people will NOT be back till we have an owner that proves he is going to at least try to make a go of it here.

brutal attendance, move the sunbelt north 200 km each and attendance will be fine

Thank god they didn't let Balsillie buy the team.:sarcasm:

i agree that the phoenix market is important to any major industry.

the nhl should tilt the outcome for the stanley cup to phoenix this year to ensure their survival, just like they did in '99 for the stars and in '04 for the lightning.

'06 for the canes and '07 for the Ducks and '09 for the pens :yo: