December 27th, 2017Happy Holidays! The NHL has reconvened following their three-day holiday break, and we return along with them to bring you your weekly Arizona Coyotes coverage.
'Twas the Week Before Christmas
The Coyotes got their week started with a Tuesday night matchup against the Florida Panthers. After dominating the game's first 39 minutes, the...
October 4th, 2017On Tuesday, Arizona Coyotes head coach Rick Tocchet made a surprising announcement; the team will not be naming a captain to start the season. Instead, he decided he would name three alternate captains. “The process of the captaincy, I’m not ready for that yet,” Tocchet told the Arizona Republic. “I think it’s important that...
September 23rd, 2017September in Arizona is a significant time of year for residents of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The holidays are approaching, school is back in session, and, most importantly, for the first time in nearly four months, the average high temperatures have dropped into the lower 90s. For the Arizona Coyotes organization, September...
August 20th, 2017Over the next couple of months, The Hockey Writers will be releasing a series of bold predictions. Team by team, this series will take shape as we look at some of the more questionable possibilities that could come into fruition during the 2017-18 season. As we hit Broadway, we’ll be focusing on a team whose window is closing with...
August 5th, 2017With the bulk of the NHL offseason transaction activity behind us, the start of the 2017-18 NHL season is just two short months away. For the New York Rangers -- who suffered a disappointing six-game defeat at the hands of the Ottawa Senators in the Atlantic Division finals in 2016-17 -- things had to change this offseason. And they...
June 23rd, 2017The New York Rangers have traded center Derek Stepan and goaltender Antti Raanta to the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for the seventh-overall pick in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft and defenseman Anthony DeAngelo. The Rangers were rumored to be in the market to move Stepan and Raanta and the Coyotes have been looking for a No. 1 center and...
June 18th, 2017The final weekend before the NHL's Expansion Draft has long been touted as having the potential to be an extremely busy weekend around the league. Teams with too many assets to protect were expected to make deals to avoid losing players for nothing, while other teams were expected to attempt to upgrade their rosters before the Vegas...
June 16th, 2017 With the Montreal Canadiens trade to acquire Jonathan Drouin from the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday, the organization gave up a very sound prospect from their blue line. There's no proof that the Canadiens traded away a for-sure top-pair defenseman in Mikhail Sergachev, but the Canadiens decided that their need to acquire scoring...