The Coyotes are dead. For now, anyway. Maybe they’ll come back when Meruelo is finally left for dead out in the desert somewhere, or if Houston gets a backer.
Until then, we turn our attention to a team of the Latter Day; Utah HC. A team with a placeholder name and as it turns out, a warchest of exciting young prospects energized to know where their next check is coming from and in a building that they won’t get laughed at for hosting a college squad with more prestige and sustained success than the professional squad.
As it turns out, if you luck into an NHL team that’s been used as a dumping and tanking ground for years, you accidentally come away with some decent players from the ordeal.