Inside details on the NHL-brokered deal to move the Coyotes to Salt Lake City and how it could lead to an expansion team in Arizona.
About a month ago, commissioner Gary Bettman and his deputy Bill Daly paid a visit to Arizona owner Alex Meruelo to broach the subject of relocation. The initial reception wasn’t warm, according to a league source. Meruelo, who has owned the franchise since 2019, was focused on winning a land auction in north Phoenix to solve its long-standing arena problem and set it up for the kind of success that has proven elusive during a .
However, there was only so long the league could wait for those circumstances to materialize, especially after Tempe residents voted against a proposed entertainment and arena development put forth by the Coyotes in a referendum last May. That left Meruelo back at square one in his pursuit of an NHL-quality setup. It also pushed back the clock for how long the Coyotes would need to play out of Mullett Arena as a secondary tenant.
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