Bill Armstrong has seen the betting odds out of Las Vegas. The Arizona Coyotes general manager is fully aware the Coyotes aren’t being given much of a chance to make the playoffs this season.
So are the players and head coach Rick Tocchet. Long odds and widespread uncertainty about the Coyotes from outside the organization are nothing new from one year to the next, and that’s not limited to just the product on the ice.
"We're pretty used to it. Not a lot of people believe in us," Coyotes captain Oliver Ekman-Larsson said. "But we feel like we have a lot of good guys and we have a lot of good hockey players in that (locker) room.