Have the Coyotes got a deal for you...
by James Mirtle on Dec 30, 2009 4:15 PM CST
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Here's the full price plan for the deal.
Attendance has been trending up a bit for Phoenix lately, and if you take a gander at the standings, you can see why. The Coyotes are suddenly within striking distance of first overall — in the Western Conference and the league.
Time to move Dave Tippett to the front of the Jack Adams line.
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Crowds at the last 2 home games (Saturday vs. the Kings and last night vs. the Canucks) have been outstanding. Granted, the Canucks fans last night were LOUD (I think once they thaw out in Phoenix they are able to yell louder). Still 10 home wins in a row, 53 points in the first half, 12 games over .500. Good times for the Coyotes fans!
And all the credit in the world to Dave Tippett and his staff…what a job they’ve done in getting this team focused and playing great team hockey in a great system…hopefully the kids in San Antonio are learning the same principles and we can add some pure goal scorers (Turris, Boedker) to the team in the near future and be an even more complete team!
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Still 10 home wins in a row
Franchise record, beating a mark set by the old Winnipeg Jets over a decade and a half ago. Kudos to Tippett. I maintain that his firing in Dallas was one of the worst off-season moves by any team this summer.
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Yeah, I don’t know what exactly was going on with Dallas (I know there are some serious ownership issues that happened down there with Hicks and everything, but what it had to do with Tippett’s firing is beyond me). Their loss is our gain I guess.
Hopefully the ’Yotes make it 11 against the Sharks tomorrow night…
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by Jordan Ellel on Dec 30, 2009 7:03 PM CST up reply actions
make it 11
I hope Tippett was careful with his pregame speech for the game following their sixth win…
by hawksfan21 on Dec 31, 2009 2:47 AM CST up reply actions 3 recs
Agree
Not sure why Dallas canned him, I thought he should have won the Adams the year they went to the WCF against Detroit (that team was a bunch of no-names, and he had them playing great).
Great pickup for the Yotes.. with Bryzgolov and Tippett, the yotes might be the best team handed to them by their Pacific rivals.
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by Jibblescribbits on Dec 30, 2009 11:36 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Wait you mean if a team put a decent product on the ice people will start showing up. What a novel concept. Gee I thought no one was showing up because we necks down yonder didn’t get hockey.
A man gotta have a code
by CP2Devil on Dec 30, 2009 7:31 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Don Cherry’s going to be outraged when he hears about an NHL team giving away visors.
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by Down Goes Brown on Dec 30, 2009 8:37 PM CST reply actions 6 recs
Well played.
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Personally, I’m glad that Dallas made the mistake of firing Tippett. The team is well-prepared each night and held accountable. It’s made our year so far.
I was a Gretzky apologist when he coached here – the difference between the two coaching styles is substantial.
However, credit should also be given to GM Don Maloney. He put the right players in the right spots (and yes for the right kind of money).
Um
Time to move Dave Tippett to the front of the Jack Adams line.
Trotz, anybody?
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Trotz has been doing a good job for so long that he’s taken for granted by now, I think. The Jack Adams seems to be not so much an award for the best coach as for the coach of a team that wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone figured they would be. It often goes to the most surprisingly decent coaching job, which I guess goes along with so many award winners getting fired soon after. Get a few key injuries and a goaltender who has a career worst year and a coach looks a lot more stupid.
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by Afino on Dec 30, 2009 9:42 PM CST reply actions 2 recs
Good god
The major league potential is off-the charts. Which one is Cerrano?
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by Jibblescribbits on Dec 30, 2009 11:37 PM CST up reply actions
It’ll never happen, but I would love to see the Phoenix Coyotes win the 2010 Stanley Cup. Just to spite all the ignorant jackholes.
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by Doogie2K on Dec 30, 2009 11:38 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Never say never
They have a good coach, a good goalie, and an underrated, but strong, defensive corps. A few lucky bounces and they could win the Cup.
Which begs the question.. If the Phoenix Coyotes win the Stanley Cup, what level on the Richter scale would the collective Canadian heart attack measure?
I think an over/under of 7.5 is appropriate.
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by Jibblescribbits on Dec 31, 2009 1:21 AM CST up reply actions
If it happened, I would personally rub it in the face of every Make It Seven member I found.
I have no patience for people trying to take away other people’s teams without exhausting every other option first. Been there, nearly did that, wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Even Canucks fans.
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Tippett blatantly rocks
Wild are (is?) doing well now under Richards, but they should have snagged Tippett when they interviewed him…
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by guy@hockeybias on Dec 30, 2009 11:26 PM CST reply actions
If they can’t sell tickets at that price – with as well as they are doing – there need to be major changes made, because a team doing that well deserves a fanbase that supports them.
I say export the Phoenix residents who can’t even frontrun properly to Winnipeg and import a crowd of devoted hockey fans to Phoenix to cheer for the Coyotes. Nice arena, good fan base … problem solved! :)
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They’ve been selling plenty of tickets recently. Crowds for the last two games:
Kings, Sat. December 26 – 16,131
Vancouver, Tus. December 29 – 13,976
And those aren’t just sold tickets with folks dressed as empty seats filling them…the joint has been rocking the past few games and I expect nothing different tonight vs. the Sharks…
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by Jordan Ellel on Dec 31, 2009 12:45 PM CST up reply actions
They've done the 4 for 3 thing before...
I actually bought 4 last year, sold 3 on ebay and went to the 4th (vs. Sharks, the only one I cared about) 3rd row behind the bench for free. The deal also eliminated all service charges.
Unfortunately, that got me on their mailing/contact list. Now Shane Doan leaves me voice mails imploring me to by season tix. Since I live 682 miles from Glendale, I’m one of the few that can legitimately say the arena is in an inconvenient location for me.
I still get regular emails from the Preds three and a half years after going to one game in Nashville.
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So if I am reading that right, you can get four tickets for $45 (and up). Or, in other words, you can get four tickets to watch the NHL in Phoenix for less than it costs for four tickets to watch Junior A hockey in Alberta.
Same comment as below regarding the Frontenacs (shakes head).
Let’s see the Junior A team in Alberta charge $280/ticket for the front rows like PHO and we can talk then.
By the way, the Coyotes are not the only team offering tickets down in the low teens of dollars (like, say $14, perhaps):
Why they built such a behemoth of an arena out in Kanata, I haven’t the foggiest. Interesting how cheaply you can get in the building, however. I wonder if those tix are widely available.
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The cheapest ones usually sell first, but they are still pretty easy to get, especially for the unattractive opponents.
As for why they built it where it is, if you haven’t seen this, it’s a pretty good read:
http://www.eqjournalblog.com/?p=261
It’s Bruce Firestone’s reply to “Why SBP Is Where It Is”
Basically, any other spot was either unavailable (owned by the National Capital Commission), in Quebec (they wanted a second Ontario team, not a third Quebec one) or not readliy accessible by “sufficient” public transit (Lansdowne Park)
Maybe we need to move the Senators to southern Ontario. ;)
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by Doogie2K on Jan 2, 2010 9:18 AM CST up reply actions 3 recs
I can’t even get that good of a deal for Kingston Frontenacs game.
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by Another Good Kingston Boy on Dec 31, 2009 11:47 AM CST reply actions
Right.
Compare an $18 Frontenacs ticket that you can get to sit anywhere in a small arena with the price for a seat in the last four rows at the very tip tip of a 17,000 seat NHL arena.
Useless comment.
I’m confused, Gerald. Which are you saying is the better deal?
Honestly, all things being equal I’d take a night at the Robert Guertin Arena in Gatineau/Hull, in any seat you wanna put me in well over a night at SBP watching the Sens, in any seat you wanna put me in. I love watching NHL hockey, but being at a junior game in Hull in person is simply more fun than being at almost any NHL game in person.
I am not commenting on what is the “better deal”. I am responding to the odious attempt at yet another cheapshot at a southern market. It has been and remains sickening, to be frank.
The poster is suggesting that the PHO market is equivalent to a junior A Canadian market, AS IF it was at all the same product.
AND as if that was a new line, to boot.
I am fed up with it.
I think most people – most people – would say that the junior A product was inferior – for a variety of reasons. And yet there’s Phoenix, hawking theirs for less than what the inferior one goes for in many markets.
It’s a totally valid talking point, whether or not Gerald in the comments on the From The Rink blog is fed up with it or not.
A. You missed the point. I had given you the benefit of the doubt, but you missed the point, which is this: they are not hawking “theirs” for less. THey are selling the back four rows in a few sections for less, just like OTT, and a number of other Canadian and non-Canadian teams – AND teams in a number of other major league sports, too.
B. It is not a valid point, in the least. In case you and others didn’t notice, there was as concerted an effort as there HAS ever been – EVER, in ANY market – to utterly destroy the market.
C. It is not a valid talking point because it is a thoroughly disingenuous attempt to say the same old hackneyed thing, that too many cowards on these boards think but are too chickenshit to say, because they know how reprehensible it is – that Canadian fans are better fans than US hockey fans (or at least non-O6 US, non-MINN hockey fans).
D. I doubt Gerald in the comments on In the Rink is the only one who is fed up with it. I have been harping on it for some time, and I think the numbers are growing.
This whole argument about the Coyotes is twofold! One, the product that Tippett has put on the ice is outstanding, w/o his leadership there would be no talk of next year! The economic survival of this franchise is yet another issue! In this southern market, filled with other teams fans, a poor economy and higher ticket prices on the horizon, the attendance is doomed to be poor no matter how well Tippett gets the team to perform. Poor stadium location, lowest payroll in the league, it is a wonder how they have attracted the fans that they have. I still am looking for an answer as to who will be responsible for the losses this year? Does the IEH bid include the losses in their 140mm purchase price, or will they be eaten by the league? If this is seen as such a great deal by the supposedly brilliant businessmen at IEH, why are there not more groups bidding on this supposedly cheap asset? Games in Saskatoon? I don`t think so! If you allow PHX to play there, what will Tampa, Florida, Atlanta, Nashville, Colorado, say? Certainly they will not show favorites, when other franchises are struggling as well! Personally, I think the best thing to do would be to contract!!!!
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