If A Puck Drops In The West Valley And No One Sees It Does It Really Matter?
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by user Bobman024
The Coyotes are 25 and 30 good for 52 points and 14 points out of the final spot in the Western Conference playoffs. They haven’t made the playoffs since 2002 and the “Great One” has been nothing but the mediocre one as the bench captain of the Yotes. Although his coaching and his choice of assistants, see Rick “The Gambler” Tocchet, hasn’t been the best or helped this team win the blame can’t be placed at his feet for the lack of success on the ice and in the stands. That blame should be placed on the NHL marketing and the teams GM (General Miss-manager) Michael Barnett.
First off the NHL has found a more effective way of killing it’s teams ticket sales then a lockout. It’s a lack of a major marketing campaign and the fact that if you want to watch an NHL game you might as well drive to Canada because it will be easier to get there than find Versus on your local cable/satellite provider. If you can’t market it and no one can see your product on tv you obviously won’t be able to fill a venue even one as gorgeous as Jobing.com arena, yes thats the name of the arena and yes we know its lame but bare with us its the only sponsor we could find…….University of Phoenix was already taken.
With the deck already stacked against them the Coyotes have failed to field a half way respectable team which has dropped them further into the depths of the purgatory known as the NHL. Michael Barnett has been given every chance to prove he is a decent GM and instead of building a young team with an infusion of veteran leadership he has managed to build a team of over the hill has beens, see Jeremy Roenick, Brett Hull and Mike Ricci, who should have been sent out to pasture long ago. Barnett is lucky that he is a long time friend of Wayne Gretzky because his track record is less then impressive. The new NHL requires someone who realizes how to build a team around that style of play not a former agent who is still managing to get athletes more money than they deserve, too bad he is doing it from the other side of the desk at the cost of the Yotes. Unless Gretzky and the higher ups realize its time for a change then Glendale and the greater Phoenix area will be without a WhiteOut for years to come.
I never thought I would say this but I long for the old “One and Done” Coyotes because at least there was such a thing as playoff hockey in the desert.
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