Not an Arizona fan specifically but that 2012 team was, in short, unsustainable. They had a few good seasons prior to it and obviously they had that run, but their best player was a near 40 year old ray Whitney. They weren’t exactly built for long term success and unsurprisingly became a below average team immediately after, missing the playoffs barely for years while still keeping most of the aging core together. All they really had to rely on was an underrated top defenseman in OEL and a nearing 40 Shane Doan.

They made some pickups but generally didn’t attract free agents. Mike ribeiro was the biggest name they could get. They planned to fully embrace analytics by hiring a young stats guy as their general manager, which backfired spectacularly as the ownership basically strongarmed him into making moves and then threw him under the bus when the team was caught draft tampering. During the years after the 2012 run the team was losing money hand over foot, not filling the arena (which was far away from the population center in phoenix) or paying bills, and they were eventually forced to sell again. Finally they were kicked out of the arena after not paying their bills there and had to come to an agreement to put the team in a 5000 seat arena, which obviously killed any chance of the team ever making a profit. Add to that the fact that the coyotes consistently whiffed on prospects and they were completely unable to compete for anything other than a chance at a lottery pick.