E.L. wrote:
Zona won their last game at the Mullett. Some crazy bits:
Owner Alex Meruelo didn't show.
Shane Doan's banner was still in Glendale and some fan brought it to him.
They played James Brown's "I Feel Good" after the final whistle.
A dysfunctional trainwreck organization till the end, but I feel for the actual hockey fans of Arizona, who do exist and will now have to wait and see if Meruelo can get an arena built for an expansion team. He won't, but they have to do this to prevent him from suing the league for basically taking his team from him.
It was even worse than that. They left the banner at Gila River Arena and when the city or whoever went in to clean it out they contacted the Coyotes to come and get it and NO ONE responded, so they threw it in the trash. It was fished out of the dumpster by that fan.
League has no one but themselves to blame for this mess. They just kept trying to prop up a failed franchise and eventually got in bed with a total moron with much more money than sense…and it’s been widely reported he doesn’t have nearly as much money as he claims.