SB Nation’s Five for Howling Calls This the Right Move

OdinMercer at SB Nation’s Coyotes blog Five for Howling sends along his thoughs on Gretzky stepping down:

This is a good thing for the team. It removes a lot of question marks on the coaching front. In a time where everything is up in the air hopefully this at least solidifies one aspect of the Coyotes future. Ulf Samuelson has done a good job in camp of coaching the team hands-on and bringing in Dave King as an assistant is a great move to put some experience in that has been severely lacking so far.

Gretzky’s tenure as head coach hadn’t been met with a lot of success here in Phoenix and there was never a consequence for that. His salary was a weight around the team and the continued scrutiny wasn’t helping. The multitude of articles about his being away from the team haven’t been a help and I think this is really best for all parties that everyone now has one less negative story to focus on regarding the Coyotes.