When the Arizona Coyotes, then Phoenix Coyotes, won the Pacific Division in 2012, hockey fans in the desert thought the team was going to finally break out of mediocrity.
But in the following offseason, the team began to change.
Ray Whitney and Adrian Aucoin departed in free agency. Two years later, Derek Morris and Rusty Klesla were let go.
Not long after that, Radim Vrbata, Keith Yandle and Paul Bissonnette all left the team.
In fact, the team that almost led the Coyotes to a Stanley Cup Finals berth one year had nearly been deconstructed over the next four, leaving just nine players from that 2012 team on the roster for the 2015-16 season.