Why There Shouldn't Be Hockey In Phoenix

Check out this "crowd" last night. The second home game of the Phoenix Coyotes' season, coming off a season in which they finally made the playoffs, drew an announced attendance of 6,706. Yet the NHL insists on having a team in Phoenix. They've lost tons of money over the years, they still don't have a new owner (I can't even begin to sum up that debacle, but here's a Wikipedia link), taxpayers in Glendale (where their arena is located) are on the hook for $25 million to be paid to the NHL to pay for the team's losses this year...and according to left winger (and former Flyer) Scottie Upshall, they can't even make ice properly, as evidenced by this tweet after the team's home opener:

He later issued a clarification...

There are too many NHL teams in markets that simply can not or will not support hockey. The Coyotes should have been allowed to move back to Winnipeg (where they used to be the Winnipeg Jets) or to Hamilton, Ontario or some other location.

And now, for the non-hardcore sports people, here's a picture Upshall tweeted earlier this summer...