The Coyotes’ troubled existence in Arizona came to an end Wednesday night, and its fans gave the team an emotional sendoff.
Fans in Arizona turned out one last time to see the Coyotes before their departure to Salt Lake City. For years, as the Arizona Coyotes wandered the Phoenix area in search of a permanent place to lay down their ice amid an unforgiving desert, their fans had a tradition. When each night’s rendition of the national anthem reached “Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,” they would join in for those last two words.
The Coyotes tried to get a new stadium built in Tempe, near Phoenix’s airport, but a trio of ballot measures that would have cleared the way for construction failed at the polls in 2023,Amid all that transience and all those owners — at one point, the NHL stepped in after the team’s owners declared bankruptcy — the Coyotes didn’t win a whole lot. Arizona reached the playoffs in four of its first five seasons in the desert but has been back only five times over the past 23 seasons.
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