The Rise and Fall of the Arizona Coyotes

The complete history of the Arizona Coyotes.
Beginning with the Winnipeg Jets move to Phoenix, this documentary tracks the history of the Arizona Coyotes from the early days of promise, to the sad realization that the Coyotes were relocating to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Includes Arizona Coyotes highlights, Phoenix Coyotes highlights, Salt Lake City hockey highlights, Utah hockey highlights, Wayne Gretzky highlights, Shane Doan highlights, NHL highlights.
#arizonacoyotes #phoenixcoyotes #utah #saltlakecity #nhlhockey #nhlhighlights #hockeyhistory #nhlhistory #icehockey

[@Hoovie9596]

What rise ? They were a train wreck from the start

[@greenwalltree]

They made the playoffs every year and went further and further till 2012. Maybe do some google searches bud

[@Hoovie9596]

@@greenwalltree ok according to the google searches I did, They did NOT make the playoffs in 2001 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2009. I guess it’s you that needs to do some google searches?

[@SaintNormRIP]

They were pretty good the first few seasons in Phoenix.

[@invaderjaymz]

​@greenwalltree oof!!! Hard oof!!!! You lose bud.

[@greenwalltree]

@@JobberJim rent free 😂🤡

[@rhyshalloran9007]

Nicely done and said. As a Coyotes fan of 27 years, I blame Ellman. If the arena was built in Scottsdale at the site of Los Arcos mall, the Coyotes story would be much different.

[@jollyroger6135]

Ellman cared more about the real estate than the team itself. He was a land developer, not a sports franchise owner

[@buzztheblocker89]

I truly appreciate the thumbnail being Khabibulin. He was my favorite player growing up and why i became a goalie

[@averyjames4623]

The Bulin Wall!

[@averyjames4623]

Also Keith Tkachuck and JR

[@bagofgroceries]

Long live the Bulin Wall. His safe in 2004 is still one of the best.

[@Galastin]

Last we heard, a new arena is not being built in Salt Lake City. They are renovating the Delta Center.

[@RedHotHockeyYYC]

Good catch!

[@greenwalltree]

They aren’t using the delta center

[@thesillyseal284]

​@@RedHotHockeyYYCNot a good catch, and crappy content creator, slc is using the delta center while the smith group builds a new arena

[@Galastin]

@@greenwalltree that's the last thing Ryan Smith has said. They are renovating the Delta Center. I'm skeptical, but that is the plan. No brand new arena

[@connorbrown3463]

@@thesillyseal284no brand new arena they’re renovating the delta center, so yes good catch you’re dumb

[@nicolesgaming8917]

This sounds so much like the Sonics situation (obligatory "Clay Bennett can go fuck himself")...I feel so sad for Coyotes fans. No fanbase deserves to lose their team like this.

[@justinz5617]

this was a cool dive into the coyotes, they will be missed. also i don’t know if you have anything lined up for future videos but i think looking at the french connection/perreault would be dope

[@Mrgoat10000]

BRO that kid welcomeing the team WAS ME I GOT ON THE NEWS😂

[@RedHotHockeyYYC]

Hahah amazing!

[@ThatGenXGuy8794]

Man, and I thought the Minnesota North Stars had some crazy ownership issues. After watching this, I highly doubt hockey will ever be back in Phoenix.

[@TheRoseBoy11]

I'm a boston fan that was born in 2003 and so, never had to worry about "relocation" because of how loyal the fans can get (for better and worse). So hearing that at one point one of my beloved Pats were originally going to be relocated to St. Louis before Robert Kraft's takeover was crazy to see. I wouldn't imagine how Pats fans in around New England would've feel if their favorite team moved away from their home in some twisted alternative timeline. Sad to see any team being forced to move to another place far from their home and hearing how heartbroken the fans must've felt when they lost a team they'd loved since they were children... Even with the clownshow that went on throughout the Yotes' time that their fans are the most loyal and caring even with all the heartbreak & horrid showing that they had to endure (although you could say that for any team that has sucked throughout their history recent or well, historically). Bye Arizona Yotes. You deserved better owners.

[@robertmusgrave9236]

I’m in Pittsburgh and haven’t had to really worry about relocation as well but I wouldn’t be upset if the pirates one day left it would make summers a lot less stressful and actually enjoy other things. People here go to the Pirates games for entertainment but still buy all kinds of merch especially the women and girls here. The People of Pittsburgh enable nutting to keep his current mentality and culture of operation of the pirates which is not really caring about the team 100%. People here also go for the Fireworks nights as well. People here need to take a stand and stop giving nutting there money until he shows he can win or sell the team. Nutting needs to sell the Pirates in the near future. I’m not going to another game until he sells the team.

[@pierre-richard6779]

Nice video mate

[@MSZFilms]

Great video!

[@RedHotHockeyYYC]

Thanks! I'm enjoying your work! Keep it up!

[@reflected4644]

I moved to Phx in 1996 from Boston. To this day I am still a Bruins Fan first despite being a coyotes season ticket holder from about 1998 to sometime when Gretzky was running the team. HIm and Ellman....I loathe Wayne Gretzky. An arena that was Ellmans vanity project....bad drafting....and an utter failure of a team. leaf games here were loaded with fans.....they all lived here. bruins games...hawks....habs, calgary, Edmonton....all the snowbirds went to those. the customers were always here. the fans were always here. everybody here is from somewhere else...lots of snowbirds all they had to do was one thing Win and they failed miserably at that. Some of us tried to stick it out... But in the end a 1 hour drive to the west side and a crap on ice product doomed this team.

[@cweaver4080]

How could anyone hate Wayne Gretzky? It's like kicking a puppy.

[@SylveonMujigae]

@@cweaver4080As great a player he was during the 80s and 90s, he was a terrible head coach.

[@cweaver4080]

Fair enough. Honestly, he isn't a great commentator either.

[@reflected4644]

Meh….he was a cherry picker and I always thought Lemieux was far more talented. Maybe not better but Mario in his prime….id take him over Wayne. And my distaste for Wayne is about him after his playing days And who could forget that ridiculous excuse that it was Janet Gretzky that ran a betting pool with Tocchet when he was an assistant That was so far fetched it was comical Gretz was worse than a lousy coach

[@BrokTheLoneWolf]

Thank you

[@tombraiderstrums09]

As a native Zonie and coyotes fan since my college roommate got me into hockey around 2007, I’m crushed by the yotes’ relocation. I also understand the NHL’s decision and feel that they had reached a breaking point with this franchise. Your synopsis really illuminates what a disaster the business/financial side of the coyotes was for a long time, and AZ localities’ reactions to the team should be understood in relation to this, not a supposed lack of fans. As your clips show, yotes fans came out in droves when the team was competitive. In a conveniently located and state of the art NHL-level facility and with competent ownership, I have no doubt that they could succeed in the Phoenix market. It sucks that they were never really given a fair chance to succeed. I’m also skeptical of Meruelo’s ability to build the new barn. He’s burned so many bridges and now looks to be going about his effort through bribery and arm-twisting rather than building constructive relationships. It’s sad and as much as I want the coyotes back, a return under those conditions would simply be a return to all the problems of coyotes 1.0. For now, I will continue to wear my tear-stained kachina jersey and keep the faith. #hockeybelongsinthedesert #buildthebarn

[@powxchris]

We won’t get a team back here with Muerelo. I don’t trust that he will actually try, he already said he spent 7 mill on the last campaign when all the campaign spend says 1.1mill. He’s got money in his pocket so who cares.

[@tombraiderstrums09]

@@powxchris I get the feeling that ego is even more important to him than money. That alone may keep him from giving up, but it also may doom his efforts as he alienates everyone along the way.

[@powxchris]

@@tombraiderstrums09 oh 100% the whole press conference is just for him to come out and act like he’s gonna do something. When it inevitably doesn’t happen, he’s just gonna blame everyone else but himself and then walk away with the money. If he retains the right for the next five years. We probably won’t see any coyotes team back before a decade.

[@ODSTGodzilla]

@tombraiderstrums09 Hockey is already in the Desert with Vegas Arizona doesn't deserve a team !!!! They never did

[@Xerxes910]

The lockout after the Playoff run killed all momentum. Sad that the best owners of the team were the NHL. Ownership sunk the team along with no playoff runs for over a decade (COVID season doesn't count).

[@mrgreekgm754]

Lockouts suck but that excuse didn’t fly with the other 29 teams!

[@Xerxes910]

@@mrgreekgm754when you have half a season then injuries and the lowest payroll with no real star players it matters.

[@sampicano]

Arizona being a bad hockey market killed the team

[@Xerxes910]

@@sampicano obviously you have no idea what you are talking about. There are 13+ sheets of ice in the valley with thousands of kids playing club, travel, and high school hockey.

[@sampicano]

​@@Xerxes910 13 sheets of ice is Regina numbers....Regina has like 250 thousand people Arizona isn't even on par with small cities in Canada

[@dang7716]

What a dumpster fire of a franchise

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

Winnipeggers put a curse on it !

[@NOTLeavingLV]

You start the video with the presupposition that Bettman was out the gate intend to move the team. He wasn’t. A little research shows that in a no salary cap era nearly all the Canadian market teams were threatened with moving.

[@danbratten3103]

Burke was originally planning on moving the Jets to Minneapolis. But Burke ran into the same problem as previous North Stars owners (not just Norm Green), no help from the Metropolitan Sports Commision and Target Center. So he moved the Jets to Phoenix.

[@b.ramit88]

Interesting video but Tempe is pronounced Tem-pee not tem-pay that's my only gripe

[@Harrison244]

Management doomed them from the start, Phoenix deserves a fresh start in a few years

[@bearinwonderland818]

At 7:05, that is a picture of Glendale city hall in Glendale, California 😂

[@thebeatleswin1]

“No guys the team is leaving because they had a bad owner!” Which one was the bad one? Didn’t realize the owners made all the player decisions and trades and drafts. This team was always a failing experiment and i’m tired of yote fans trying to say it wasn’t and it was just the owner.

[@Michael_RareZebra]

It wasn’t just one “owner” it was numerous rotating door of incompetent owners. They steer the ship on the business & political side and they all failed. The team never gained consistent traction with rotating staff (due to incoming owners making constant changes). When the team had short-lived periods of consistency & winning seasons the stands were full. With quality ownership, steady staff and lottery luck they would’ve succeeded.

[@gillesjacques1022]

It's like a bad soap opera, I'm surprised it lasted that long in Arizona, only Bettman kept them there hoping for a miracle. I can only imagine the new soap opera, if a team goes back there in the future.

[@FischerFan]

Before one shovel goes into the ground on any new arena in the Phoenix area, the NHL should impose a season-ticket goal of 13,000 be met....just like it imposed on Winnipeg back in 2011! Is there anything wrong with asking the Commissioner to be consistent from one market to the next?!

[@TonyMichaels166]

Dammit, Gary.

[@sampicano]

One time at Jew camp I saw Gary swallow thirty kreplachs whole. That's hoe he got his nickname Gary "Gargles" Bettman

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

27 years too late 😂

[@OneTeeGlory]

Watching this as a comedy

[@averyjames4623]

Didn't the Coyotes last more seasons than they did as the Coyotes than they did as the Jets?

[@josephspagnoli6035]

the NHL did evering keep the coyotes runing. they did noththing for the jets

[@averyjames4623]

@@josephspagnoli6035 Agree, but there’s a reason for that. The Jets were WHA and part of the merger in the 70’s. Bettman wanted more teams in the Sunbelt.

[@averyjames4623]

@@josephspagnoli6035 BTW, I’m a Sharks fan. No hate towards the Coyotes, but that franchise has been a mess for decades now.

[@Billy-ot8mk]

Why didn't they just put the team in Phoenix to begin with and share the Footprint Center with the Suns and Mercury?

[@bradleyminoski2020]

You must of missed the part where the narrator said they played there and moved because the arena wasn’t suitable for hockey long term did to the configuration

[@FischerFan]

Jerry Moyes was right all along.

[@tomjohnson3106]

14:44 Bettman doesn't look happy in this clip

[@tonic316]

Glendale is awful because most of the valley lives east of it and no one wants to drive that way multiple times a week. It works for the Cardinals since they are one time a week but not something that is every few days.

[@bradleyminoski2020]

More like The Repeated Blunders of the Arizona Coyotes.

[@nickb2912]

The reason why the NHL wants to return to Arizona is because of the large TV and corporate market, that is where most of teams revenue comes in. People think its just attendance but its the TV and the corporate sponsors where they make the most money. This is also why the NHL is interested in Houston and looking into returning to Atlanta

[@robertmusgrave9236]

NHL is better off in Houston. Atlanta was tried before and the phone both moved to Canada.

[@nickb2912]

@@robertmusgrave9236 Atlantas issue was bad ownership if they had solid ownership there would still be a team in Atlanta

[@robertmusgrave9236]

@@nickb2912 Vegas has the best ownership for an expansion franchise I have ever seen. The NHL hopefully has finally learned that ownership groups have to show they want to win and not start a team for entertainment and tourism. MLB has a major problem with some of its onwers with this terrible mentality. This includes the team team in my town Pirates and he has clearly shown he doesn’t want to win long term. However the city still supports this franchise and Nutting’s is enabled by the people of Pittsburgh.

[@Cilvathorne]

I say this as a yotes fan: what rise do you speak of?

[@alijahtucker4673]

gonna miss my coyotes man

[@henryhahn9741]

There was a rise?

[@manzac112]

I am going to be honest: The Coyotes should have went back to Winnipeg instead of staying in Arizona.

[@mrelijeli]

Winnipeg already has a team.💀

[@manzac112]

@@mrelijeli I meant it should have been them over Atlanta

[@tonic316]

Its Tem Pee. Not Tem Pay

[@porkyrabbit]

Utah baby!!!!!! Let’s go

[@mikealvord55]

I’m sorry, but I’d leave a place that called my team the yotes too! They’re called the coyotes,

[@daviddesantis4040]

As a long suffering White Sox fan all I can say is keep Jerry Reinsdorf away from the NHL

[@brycemcneil4404]

Reinsdorf would have been the best owner the franchise ever had in Arizona (and I say that while holding him in the *exact same esteem* as you do, which is saying something.....)

[@daviddesantis4040]

@@brycemcneil4404 at least having a salary cap would give him a excuse for being a cheap shameless old douch lol

[@mosinc7388]

If the people of Tempe only voted yes. SMH. The Utah HC are getting a good squad primed for a playoff push in the next couple seasons.

[@sampicano]

Tempe was ONE of the final nails in the coffin....but there were so many nails in the coffin by that point. That was the second worst NHL team in history (shout out to Atlanta)

[@jonathan.bastiaan]

Bettman's plan is to make the NHL a all American league

[@RiceDaddy-wo2fy]

The continued fall of the Winnipeg Jets. Rise of the coyotes..... what a joke

[@BM_2002]

Should've stayed in Winnipeg, glad this dumpster of a team is gone. It disgusting what the NHL has turned into.

[@snelgrove22]

Should of stayed in Winnipeg

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

Selling the coyotes made sense. Why hold onto something that can’t win a championship. It’s best to sell them and get an expansion team later on. Start fresh.

[@sampicano]

That team can win...just not in Arizona

[@jamessimon3433]

JESUS

[@dalmar5567]

Why is American sport like this?

[@samueladams3896]

Ah yes, the coyotes. They passed through the state of Arizona like a kidney stone in the night

[@michaelscott358]

I feel bad for Coyotes fans but moving a hockey team from Winnipeg to Phoenix has to be one of the worst decisions the NHL has ever made

[@ozzmoises]

Someone explain to me why Arizona deserves another shot already over Quebec? Quebec is far more deserving and they are ready now. Dont give me this canadian dollar value or small market bs, they would still make ten times more money then Arizona. What has arizona done to show they deserve an nhl team? Notta damn thing where quebec has done everything possible to get the Nordiques reborn.

[@BM_2002]

Facts right here

[@bradleyminoski2020]

They have the corporate dollars and QC doesn’t. Simple as that.

[@bradleyminoski2020]

@@BM_2002LOL there were literally no facts stated. Corporate revenue runs sports franchises, not passion.

[@ozzmoises]

@@bradleyminoski2020 yeah they had the corporate dollars all right that's why they never made a dime in the entire time they were in the desert.

[@mrsvoyage]

Winnipeg have a team and arizona no 😂😂😂😂 revenge

[@stevecarey4740]

If fans can’t support them in the lean years….what did they actually lose? Moral of the story, don’t want your team to move, support before it gets there lol

[@robertmusgrave9236]

To bad the people of Pittsburgh have still supported the pirates despite having terrible ownership after the the family that owned them sold it.

[@sampicano]

What rise? They moved to Phoenix and did worse than Winnipeg... Then Winnipeg came BACK and the Coyotes left lol

[@ODSTGodzilla]

They never deserved a team

[@sampicano]

Time to fail in Atlanta a third time!

[@butcherpete2286]

When you say "they" I KNOW you don't mean the fans. The fans didnt do anything wrong at all. It was the management and ownership of the team that led to this situation

[@GLrebirth]

NHL, please stop trying to make hockey work in Arizona.

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

Delta only has 12,000 uninterrupted views for hockey as the angling of the upper seats cut off the view to about the nearest goalline. Not great! Since the team will also play first year in a plan jersey without a name, or logo, and without any merchandise also not a good start. The fact is this relocation is rushed and should not exist. The team should be dissolved into all the other NHL teams and an expansion team should be granted to Utah once they have plans in for a proper NHL ready rink gets greenlighted. And Arizona get back a team once they have a ready to play in NHL arena ready within the five years. To build a new NHL/ NBA pro arena it takes a minimum of 3 years from the ground breaking. So that means at least 4 seasons at the Delta Center sharing the Jazz's facilities with NBA players. Not good for them either! This is a rushed relocation and could leave Ryan Smith having to sell the team if he has any building hangups that pushes his arena back over 5 years. That could mean if Ryan falls to get that new arena he may just sell the team back to Alex if Alex has his new arena ready first. Mean while in Quebec City a new NHL ready arena is serving the QMJHL team only. What happened to that ownership group?