As a Carolina Hurricanes fan, I am begging the NHL powers to NOT move the Arizona Coyotes to a non-traditional market. Not that I am a stodgy traditionalist, who thinks hockey cannot survive outside cold weather, “traditional” locations. After all, I am writing this article in shorts and Chacos on the morning before my team is playing, at home, in the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals not to prove the point that hockey can thrive anywhere, or let you know my preference of summer time footwear.
No, I am writing this because, in the briefest of time I have been exposed to the slightest bit of insider hockey, I have seen the serious amount of bull crap heaped on a non-traditional market and simply do not want others to have to endure a single iota of that nonsense.