NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman speaks with Dave Strader and Darren Pang on Fox Sports Arizona Wednesday night during the 1st Intermission about the current state of the Phoenix Coyotes.

Click to hear the full interview courtesy of FSN Arizona:

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- Todd

Here it is…..from my first practice of the year. It’s been a long summer of baseball, and there were many times when I couldn’t help but let my mind drift back to hockey as I saw the Arizona Diamondbacks this year. The two teams remain similar. Yet, as the team fell from first place, there was something that I knew that I had to ask Wayne Gretzky: Is he concerned at all about some of his young players now making their way in basically their second year of the NHL.

I bring this up because D Backs manager Bob Melvin said at the end of the season that one of his team’s biggest challenges was the fact that several young players more or less had no competition for their jobs. Listen in on Wayne from after Monday’s skate. It is the last question from the scrum.

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Amazing what the prospect of organizational depth does for a roster and for motivation.

- Todd

Here we go again!  Listen to our first, brief, conversation with the Coach:

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Fox Sports Arizona is set to air a special 30-minute program that will give fans an unmatched inside look at the Phoenix Coyotes’ upcoming  2008-09 season. The show is entitled Phoenix Coyotes Preview and it debuts on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 8:30 p.m.

Other airings:

• Sept. 30 – 2:00 p.m.
• Oct. 1 – 7:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m.
• Oct. 2 – 6:30 p.m.
• Oct. 6 – 6:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.
• Oct. 7 – 6:30 p.m.
• Oct. 9 – 7:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m.
• Oct. 12 – 4:30 p.m.
• Oct. 15 – 5:00 p.m.

More to come.  Stay tuned!!!!

- Todd