Coyotes Unlikely To Deal Doan

TSN reports there’s a “remote” chance Coyotes General Manager Don Maloney may move Shane Doan ahead of the February 27 trade deadline.

The Phoenix Coyotes don’t want to lose their captain and longest serving franchise player, and Doan doesn’t care to leave his home and the only NHL team he’s known. But the team’s unresolved ownership situation and uncertain  future in Arizona could push the veteran to sign elsewhere as an unrestricted free agent in the summer.

“I have no question in my mind that if we’re playing in Phoenix next season that Shane Doan will be a part of this organization,” Maloney said Wednesday. “None whatsoever.”

“My preference is to stay here in Phoenix,” said Doan. “I’ve made that clear. But at the same time, obviously if the team’s not here and we’re not here everything is quite a bit different. It’s been that way for the last two years, but I’ve been kind of blocking it out. But I recognize that in the next three weeks it’s probably going to come to a head.”

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