Jeremy Roenick, former Phoenix Coyote and current analyst for the NBC network joined Arizona Sports 620’s Doug & Wolf Show Friday to talk about the team’s success so far in the post season. “They’ve done so much to bring awareness into the Valley, into the game and into their team,” said Roenick. “Their PR staff […]
“It’s good to have the rest,” defenseman Keith Yandle said. “Obviously it’s playoff time, you need the rest, you need to heal the bumps and bruises.” By the time the puck drops on the Western Conference Final series between the Coyotes and Kings, five full days will have passes since the last time Phoenix took […]
We finally know the dates of the Western Conference Final between the Los Angeles Kings and Phoenix Coyotes. This series, in my opinion, is going to be one of the craziest we’ve seen in the playoffs so far. The Kings, once earlier this season a laughing stock of offensive ineptitude, are now firing on all […]
As the saying goes, familiarity breeds contempt. If it holds true, the Western Conference Final series between the Phoenix Coyotes and Los Angeles Kings will be one that is not short on, shall we say, physicality? “Obviously, this is playoff hockey, so we know what to expect,” forward Boyd Gordon said. “I think it’s going […]
The Phoenix Coyotes and Los Angeles Kings finally know when their Western Conference Finals series will begin. The NHL announced Thursday that Game 1 will start at 5:00 p.m. Arizona time, with the puck dropping on Game 2 Tuesday at 6 p.m. Dates and times for games three and four, which will take place in […]
The Phoenix Coyotes are no stranger to the underdog role, and neither are the Los Angeles Kings. Both teams were expected to be out of the playoffs in the second, if not first rounds, and thrive off of being counted out. Both teams reside in cities where winning is all that matters. Phoenix is notorious […]
The Western Conference is down to just two teams; both of whom were widely predicted by most ‘experts’ to be eliminated in the first round. The two have met each other time and time again in the regular season, but never in postseason play. The Los Angeles Kings entered the playoffs as the 8th seed […]
Phoenix has long lived with the label of being a bandwagon sports town. It’s one of the perils of being a relatively new professional sports market and a city known for its melting pot feel and lack of natives. But if Phoenix sports fans are given a reason to root, by God, they’ll root. And […]
For the third straight playoff series the Phoenix Coyotes will enter as underdogs. Sure, they are the highest seed left in the Western Conference. And yes, they have had home ice advantage in each of their first two series. But even as they prepare for the 8th-seeded Los Angeles Kings — who the Coyotes beat […]
Not many people around the hockey world are sending thank you notes to suspended Phoenix Coyotes forward Raffi Torres. Torres made continental headlines last month after leveling Chicago’s Marian Hossa in Game 3 of the first round playoff series between the Coyotes and Blackhawks. The hit did not draw a penalty, but did result in […]
Senator John McCain is encouraged about the potential sale of the Phoenix Coyotes to former San Jose Sharks owner Greg Jamison after listening to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman. “I think he’s cautious,” McCain told Arizona Sports 620’s Doug and Wolf Tuesday. “I think he’s guardedly optimistic but he knows that there are a number of […]
A sellout crowd of 17,182 watched the Phoenix Coyotes defeat the Nashville Predators 2-1 to win their Western Conference Semifinal series in five games. If you weren’t there, here’s a quick look at the celebratory atmosphere at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale Monday night. And yes, the horn got a workout. Follow @Vincemarotta
I went to three Phoenix Coyotes games during the 2011-12 regular season. I’ve been to six so far in the postseason. I plan on going to more. My name is Adam Green, and I’m a bandwagon fan. It’s not that I used to dislike the Coyotes, far from it. I would usually attend a few […]
Business-like. It’s not an adjective that has been used historically when describing the Phoenix Coyotes. After all, before this postseason, the Coyotes had never won a playoff series, squandering opportunities in 1997 (up 3-2 on Anaheim, lost 4-3), 1999 (up 3-1 on St. Louis, lost 4-3) and 2010 (tied 3-3, lost 4-3). In the first […]
The Coyotes ownership saga looks like it finally is coming to an end. At a Monday press conference prior to Game 5 of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs between the Phoenix Coyotes and Nashville Predators, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced that a deal had been struck to sell the team to former […]
NHL Senior Vice President of Player Safety Brendan Shanahan is no friend of the Phoenix Coyotes. Shanahan, who is in charge of doling out discipline for the NHL, suspended defenseman Rostislav Klesla for a boarding call on Matt Halischuck in Game 4 against Nashville. While the Coyotes are undoubtedly not pleased with the ruling, they […]
The Coyotes have been in this position before. Up 3-1 with a chance to clinch a playoff series at home, the ‘Yotes are hoping not to repeat the same mistakes they made in the first round against Chicago, when they lost 2- 1 in overtime. Needless to say, they know the Predators won’t go down […]
Monday is the biggest day in the history of the Phoenix Coyotes. The ‘Yotes play host to the Nashville Predators in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals at Jobing.com Arena with a chance to clinch a berth in the franchise’s first-ever conference final. And, according to the Phoenix Business Journal, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman […]
According to Pierre LeBrun of ESPN.com, a sale that would keep the Phoenix Coyotes in Glendale is getting closer to completion. LeBrun wrote Thursday night that Coyotes president and chief operating officer Mike Nealy had positive news concerning the potential deal that would end in former San Jose Sharks executive Greg Jamison gaining control of […]
As the old adage goes, it’s not a playoff series until someone wins on the road. If true, the Western Conference Semifinals battle between the Phoenix Coyotes and Nashville Predators is not yet a playoff series. The Coyotes, still up in the series 2-1 after dropping a 2-0 decision Wednesday in Nashville, know all they […]
The NHL Players Association and Phoenix Coyotes forward Raffi Torres plan to appeal the 25-game suspension handed down by the league April 21. The harsh penalty was the result of Torres’ hit on Chicago Blackhawks’ forward Marian Hossa during Game 3 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals. However, Torres and the NHLPA are not appealing the […]
A Game 3 victory by the Phoenix Coyotes would all but put them in the Western Conference Finals. After all, just three teams have ever come back from an 0- 3 deficit to win a best-of-seven series in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Needless to say, the Desert Dogs expect the Nashville Predators to come out […]
The Phoenix Coyotes’ chances of beating the Nashville Predators in Wednesday’s pivotal Game 3 got a little better. According to The Tennessean, the Predators have suspended forwards Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kostitsyn for Wednesday’s tilt. “The Nashville Predators have a few simple rules centered around doing the right things,” General Manager David Poile said in […]
The Columbus Blue Jackets were pretty much an afterthought all season long when it came to the Stanley Cup playoffs. Columbus limped out to an 0-7-1 start and finished the regular season with an NHL-worst 65 points. At the trade deadline in February, the Jackets started unloading players in trades, including a deal that sent […]
