There are more than enough fans to support the team but the biggest disaster of a decision was to move the arena to basically BFE on the outskirts of town. It was a penny pinching move that destroyed fandom became it was basically impossible to get fans to the rink from where the fanbase is located. Scottsdale and east valley. They basically cut off 80% of the fanbase. Absolute stupidity.

Phoenix could easily support a team if the arena was in a location around the population base.