Discuss:
The coyotes move to Seattle will do more to grow hockey than a team in Pheonix.
Potential reasoning,
The northwest, already better primed with a larger potential fan base of hockey interested/playing/ watching.....could possibly use this p grow D1 programs and possible a new conference out of schools like your Washingtons, Oregon, universities...could allow growth enough for one day a truly more westerly central wcha and the allow for the rebirth of a ccha, in addition to expanded schools in the big ten.
Not an easy road but growing the sport in naturally hockey areas would be more successfull than shoehorning schools to add ice in areas it's just so too tough a sell.