Since December 2003, the Coyotes have played their home games at
Gila River Arena after having spent 7½ seasons at America West Arena (now
Talking Stick Resort Arena) in downtown Phoenix. On June 10, 2015, the Glendale City Council voted to end their lease agreement with the Coyotes at Gila River Arena.
[3] On July 23, 2015, it was announced that the Coyotes and the Glendale City Council had agreed on a resolution,
[4][5] and the next day it was announced that the Coyotes would stay in Glendale for the next two seasons initially.
[6]
The Coyotes' original home,
America West Arena, was suboptimal for hockey. Although considered a state-of-the-art arena when built for the Phoenix Suns, unlike most modern arenas, it was not designed with a hockey rink in mind. The floor was just barely large enough to fit a standard NHL rink, forcing the Coyotes to hastily re-engineer it to accommodate the 200 foot rink. The configuration left a portion of one end of the upper deck hanging
over the boards and ice, obscuring almost a third of the rink and one goal from several sections. As a result, listed capacity had to be cut down from over 18,000 seats to just over 16,000 — the second-smallest in the league at the time — after the first season.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Coyotes
I hope that the arena designers keep that in mind and what is going on over in Brooklyn, NY with the Islanders and the Barclays Center.
As you might have heard, Barclays Center in Brooklyn
wasn’t build for hockey. Which is a problem when an NHL team moves there because, like,
the arena wasn’t built for hockey.
This has led to some awkwardness in the
New York Islanders’ two years there. You have the off-center Jumbotron. You have the seats where fans can’t see two-thirds of the ice. And you have the weird layout of the lower bowl seating, as there’s no fan seating behind one of the goals. Just a gap between a wall and the end boards.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/fans-c...s-barclays-center-pickup-truck-185648885.html
