Arizona Coyotes fans devastated at prospect of losing their team
For the first time since 1997, no one from three generations of the Dunaway family group attended the Arizona Coyotes' fan appreciation night — the final game of the regular season — amid reports Wednesday's game against the Edmonton Oilers was the last one before the team is relocated.
Greg Dunaway gave away his season tickets because he and his father are travelling and his wife was worried the atmosphere wouldn't be a positive one for their six-year-old son.
"I don't want my son to watch it. I'd rather him have the happy memories of us together as a family," said Dunaway, whose father Robert was one of the original Coyotes season-ticket holders.
Family started <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Yotes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Yotes</a> season tickets w/my dad in 1997. I played AZ HS hockey. My dad and now my father in law have tickets. <br><br>My son plays for two hockey programs as a 6 year old and has been going to games since he was less than one. <br><br>We're a hockey family & we deserved better. <a href="https://t.co/73paWD5R3i">pic.twitter.com/73paWD5R3i</a>
The team inspired him to get on the ice and he played hockey through high school. Now, his son Aidan takes lessons and is an ardent 'Yotes fan. Dunaway is devastated by reports his team will be relocated.
"What does it feel like? It feels like what it always feels to be like a Coyotes fan, constantly being kicked in the teeth and then you try and get back up. But unfortunately for us now, there's nothing to get up for," Dunaway said.
There's been talk of the Coyotes moving for years after the Winnipeg Jets relocated there in 1996, with so many different owners, in different rinks.
Their home the last two seasons was the 5,000-seat Mullett
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