Hockey town in the desert?

Hockey fans in Phoenix are rallying to save their team.
But just how much passion for the game is there in the desert? Steve Milton said just three fans showed up at the courthouse earlier this week for the pivotal court date.
But nonetheless there is a site for those fans of the team that do exist.  Check out Save the Coyotes here.

 Earlier this week, the Arizona Republic asked the question: Can  Phoenix ever be a Hockey town:

Here are couple of excerpts from that article:

• This past season, the Coyotes had a 0.4 TV rating. That translates to about 7,210 homes. Hockey ratings generally are lower than those for other sports in a market. But ratings for the Suns and Diamondbacks are 10 times that, while the NFC champion Cardinals in 2008 had a 16.9 rating, or viewership in nearly 305,000 homes.

•   The Coyotes are among the lowest-rated teams for TV viewership across the NHL, with just a handful of teams such as Anaheim, Atlanta, Florida, Los Angeles and the New York Islanders having worse ratings, according to records compiled by Sports Business Daily.

You can read the entire article here.