A fan of the Phoenix Coyotes yells in the third period of Game Two of the Western Conference Final between the Los Angeles Kings and the Phoenix Coyotes during the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Jobing.com Arena on May 15, 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Winnipeg to Phoenix, 1996 / Relo Rating: 2
What is it about Phoenix and regrettable relocations? A victim of spiraling athlete salaries in the 1990s, the Winnipeg Jets ran into financial difficulties operating in the NHL’s then-second-smallest market. Solution? Move to Arizona, where the hockey culture was … waiting to be invented. The renamed Coyotes have fared little better in Phoenix, again suffering from perpetually undercapitalized management and ownership instability.