![]() ![]() The hope is they get good around the time they occupy the new facility because they’ll need the increased revenue streams to pay for higher-quality players. That would give Armstrong and his staff three-plus seasons to upgrade the hockey side into focus. They have one and potentially two extra third-rounders in the 2023 draft and a whopping eight picks in the first three rounds in 2024, with even more expected to come if/when Jakob Chychrun is traded. In June 2022, the first year in which Armstrong had all his resources available, the Coyotes made three selections in the first round, and five altogether in the top 43. They also had three second-rounders that season, one of whom – JJ Moser – is already playing in the NHL. Though the Coyotes forfeited the 11th pick in 2021, they did acquire the ninth pick from the Canucks in the Oliver Ekman-Larsson trade and used it to draft Dylan Guenther. Two weeks after choosing Miller, the Coyotes renounced the selection.įrom that organizational low point, the Coyotes’ hockey operations staff has been gradually trying to pick up the pieces. Accordingly, it wasn’t under Armstrong’s official watch that the Coyotes blundered their first pick in 2020, a fourth-rounder they controversially used to select Mitchell Miller, who had been found guilty of a racist bullying attack earlier in life. So, two short-term fixes which accomplished very little.Īrmstrong wasn’t permitted to participate in the 2020 draft because he’d been employed by the Blues in the year leading up to the draft (a common practice in the NHL). The NHL couldn’t strip the Coyotes of a 2020 first-round pick because it had been traded to acquire Taylor Hall from New Jersey and it couldn’t strip the team of a 2020 third-round draft choice because it had been traded to Colorado for Carl Soderberg. ![]()
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