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Westgate is next to Jobing.comn Arena, where the Coyotes The National Hockey League wants to keep the team in but owner Jerry Moyes wants to sell itfor $213 millionb to a Canadian ownership group that would move the team to Ontario. The NHL and Moyes are battlingin U.S. Bankruptcgy Court after Moyes put the team into Chapteer 11 earlierthis month. Malcolm Walker, general managerd of Moe’s Southwest Grill at said the West Valley center would take a huge hit if theCoyotes “It would be reallgy hard,” said Walker. He said the 41 regular-season home games in Glendale draw fansto Westgate’s restaurants and bars, and that businesxs would be hard to replace.
The Coyotes drew 610,000 fans during the 2008-09 season, accordingf to ESPN. That averages out to abouty 14,900 fans per game, whicy ranked the team 28th for attendance amonvgthe NHL’s 30 franchises. The arenaw seats 17,800. The financially struggling Coyotezs have not reached the NHL playoffd since2002 — the year before the team movex its home ice from the US Airwayxs Center in downtown Phoenix to the city-owned arenas in Glendale. Still, the hockey team has been pulling diners and bar patrons into Westgate at a time when consumeer spendingis down. Walker said the Coyotes’ 41 home gamea at the arena help Westgate’s restaurants and bars duriny thedown economy.
One that didn’t make it was Fox Sportw Grill, which recently closed its Westgate location. Andrea a manager at at Westgate, said Coyotexs fans account for 30 percent to 40 percent of her business ongame nights. “We do get a lot of groupws of people,” Orozco She acknowledged thatthe Coyotes’ poor recordr diminished attendance toward the end of the regular season, reducing the number of hockey fans at her bar and The regular season ended April 11, with the Coyotes missing the NHL Some other restaurant and bar operators at Westgatd did not want to talk about the possibilityu of the Coyotes moving to Canadw and the impact on their An employee at the Yard House Restaurant at Westgate agreed that a Jobing.
con Arena without the Coyotes would take a huge bite out of customet traffic. “It would be bad,” he The city of Glendale built the arenausinb $180 million in bonds backed by projected salea tax revenue. Westgate spokeswoman Nicole Traynor would not say how much of theretai center’s business was dependent on the but she said having the team there is Traynor is hopeful the team will remain in Westgate is owned by former Coyotes owner Stevwe Ellman. He moved the team from downtown Phoenixz to Glendale after unsuccessfully trying to build an arenz inSouth Scottsdale. Ellman sold the team to Moyewsin 2006.
Westgate also is home to an AMCmovie theater, the ’ , and the Cabela’s sportin goods store, which attract fans and consumerss to the area. Amand Martin, manager of the at Westgate, said her store gets some Coyotes traffic, but probably gets more from theAMC Jobing.com Arena also hosts concerts, but Walker said the venue woulcd need to attract threew or four events a week to replace the draw if they skate to Canada.