The 1970s folk group America could not have foreseen Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan’s story when they sang “In the desert…there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.”
There may not be anyone, unless you are the last holdover from a hockey team that relocated from central Canada 16 years ago and have since endured one year after another with no postseason success.
Over his protracted tenure in arid Arizona, Doan has had an abundance of adversaries to inflict pain upon him, along with teammates and supporters to share it with.
But Monday night constituted Doan and the Coyotes’ second wave in the emotional equivalent of a rare, long-awaited desert flood. The franchise won its second playoff round since moving in from Winnipeg and its second in as many tries this spring, upon finalizing a five-game triumph over the Nashville Predators.
The 2-1 series clincher, which came before the white-wearing masses at Jobing.com Arena, occurred within hours of the encouraging announcement that the Coyotes plan to stay where they are under the auspices of new owner Greg Jamison.
And to think that, along w ...
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