from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,
It was a book on terminally ill patients — On Death and Dying — that introduced us to the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
Brian Kulina never read the book.
He doesn’t have to.
He’s an Arizona Coyotes fan.
“One day you wake up and you’re bargaining: ‘Maybe it would be different if this thing happened ... ?’” Kulina said this week, as he prepared to attend Wednesday’s franchise finale against the Edmonton Oilers at the tiny, sold-out Mullett Arena on the Arizona State University campus.
“Then you see something, and you get angry. And then you get sad,” he said. “We're running through the gamut, and where it's all coming from is, we feel like we were directly lied to.”
There will be plenty of time for Coyotes Nation to recline on its collective therapy couch and process the loss of its team to Salt Lake City. But for now, finding acceptance means avoiding the Coyotes' NHL.com web page.
The day before dropping the puck on what is 99.9 per cent certain to be this franchise’s last game here, the Coyotes' web page sports a banner across the top reading: BREAKING: Coyotes Announce Commitment to Win State Land Auction & Build Privately Funded Arena.
totally get it but winning and cash or see you in Utah.
Salt Lake Sandpipers!? these NA birds will gang the F up on you if you screw around!
Lots of good stuff in this article. One quote that got my attention:
You work your entire life to get to the highest level in the world the NHL but you don't really feel like you're in an NHL environment when you play there, Stecher said. They had everything you needed if you wanted to be a good hockey player, there was no excuse. It was just at a lesser level than what facilities (in Edmonton) are, or what the (Detroit) Red Wings have.
I came from (the University of) North Dakota. Theyre even worse than that.
This sums up a lot of the problems - the Coyotes organization has never treated their players like true NHL players nor given them the resources they needed to be successful. They half ass everything.
Don't do this to their fans....
https://twitter.com/CorvoAttan...
they've suffered enough.
The Jackets are just real damned lucky that the NBA, NFL, and MLB are tied up in Cinci and Cleveland. They live in a Goldilocks Zone where all they have to compete with is college football, MLS, and minor league baseball. The culture in Columbus is big on sports and low on options.
Considering how incompetent their organization is, and how lucky they are to be in their market, Id keep my mouth shut if I were them.
I was looking at last minute tickets for tonights game. I really wanted to show support to the players for all theyve gone through, but Stub hub wants to add $140 in fees per ticket.
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