It’s no longer a secret: the Arizona Coyotes will be moving to Salt Lake City for the next season. The organization’s social media team seems to have already left the ship.
The Coyotes’ last post on social media was last Saturday, when Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo posted a letter in which he roughly mentioned not being able to comment on the information.
Since then, it has been radio silence, literally. Sunday evening, the Coyotes were in Calgary to face the Flames and no publication was made during the meeting. An unusual practice, obviously, for a social media management team of an NHL team, particularly for that of the Coyotes who had accustomed people to publications that provoked a reaction.
We only have to think of the one from the beginning of the year concerning Logan Cooley and Juraj Slafkovsky. After a victory for the Coyotes over the Montreal Canadiens on November 2, a match in which Cooley had collected an assist while “Slaf” had been shut out, the Coyotes had taunted the Habs on “X”, they who preferred the big Slovak to Cooley in the 2022 draft.
Fixed by the end of the week?
Informant Elliotte Friedman of the Sportsnet network reported late last week that the Coyotes would be purchased by the NHL for the sum of 1 billion US dollars and that they would subsequently be resold to the group led by the businessman Ryan Smith with the aim of moving them to Utah, for a sum of 1.2 billion. The hockey staff will be part of the agreement, according to Friedman, but not those working at the administrative level.
But this will not be the end of the Coyotes, obviously, since Meruelo will be offered a five-year window, in particular to resolve the amphitheater file, with the aim of bringing a team back to Arizona possibly through expansion. .
Journalist Pierre LeBrun reported Monday morning that the NHL hopes for an outcome by the end of the week, but that the case could drag on. The goal is for everything to be finalized as much as possible before the start of the series.