Meanwhile the Coyotes and Rangers each made the Conference Finals despite middling underlying numbers.
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The coyotes had to shift tactics after the Border Patrol clamped down on the urban border crossings.
The coyotes and loons tend to drown out other noises up here.
The Coyotes, with their long-term future now uncertain, are slowly turning around their season and have points in their last five games.
The Coyotes are currently bringing in the least amount of spectators to home games than any other team in the league in this shortened season.
Against all odds, the Coyotes have managed to make the playoffs the last three seasons, going all the way to the conference finals last season.
And amid complicated ownership issues, the Coyotes are just hanging on.
Given that the Coyotes are losing much more money than the Thrashers, why would the NHL want the Coyotes to stay and let the Thrashers go?
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The boys made collages depicting their journeys through the desert: the snakes, the coyotes, the dirty river, the truck, and the train commonly referred to as "La Bestia" (The Beast) because of its many dangers.
The coyotes, of whom there may be several hundred in the Arizona area, now lead smuggling organisations which are changing and becoming more organised and sophisticated, according to Andrea Zortman of the Border Patrol in Tucson.
The greater risks mean that more migrants are forced to rely on the dreaded coyotes to take them across the desert.
And the Phoenix Coyotes have been owned by the NHL for the last several years, and only this season did they win their first playoff series as a franchise since 1987 and first since arriving in Phoenix in 1996.
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Brendan Shanahan, whose position as the league's director of player safety isn't to be confused with Valentine's old job, apparently had seen enough by the time the Phoenix Coyotes' Raffi Torres leveled the Chicago Blackhawks' Marian Hossa with a hit to the head in the third game of their first-round playoff series.
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If the Phoenix Coyotes do not move to Winnipeg after the NHL unloads the team, then True North Entertainment and Sports will make an offer for the Thrashers.
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Just ask the Phoenix Coyotes, where too much debt and a sour real estate market sent the team into bankruptcy four years ago.
The deal was announced hours before the Wild faced the Phoenix Coyotes in Arizona.
Because, incredibly, those crazy folks in the City of Glendale are attempting to subsidize the Phoenix Coyotes yet again.
Last December the Phoenix Coyotes moved into a new building in Glendale, Ariz.
Despite a new and hard-fought players' collective bargaining agreement and dynamic young stars like Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, the NHL is being held back by floundering teams like the Phoenix Coyotes, which has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Louis Blues or the Phoenix Coyotes.
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When it comes to Twitter followers, the Cardinals, Coyotes and Diamondbacks rank in the bottom three in their respective sports.
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But it's the Kings, Coyotes and Rangers that are the most puzzling.
The wolves also hunt coyotes, meaning the growing bald eagle and hawk populations have more rodents to eat.
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As he explains it, the gradual movement of coyotes northward plus the rise of synthetic fabrics have combined to make sheep-raising an endangered occupation in these parts.
When the novel opens, Deanna Wolfe, a forest ranger, is tracking coyotes in the mountains.
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It's very steep and it's brushy and there's also coyotes in the background.
As it relates to the Indians, Orioles, Pacers, and Coyotes, a big part of the poor attendance despite quality performance is the weight of recent history of poor performances coupled with a lack of faith (on some level) with the organization.
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