--D Adrian Aucoin, who could have been an unrestricted free agent, was re-signed to a two-year contract.

--Jerry Reinsdorf is out and Ice Edge Holdings is in when it comes to the dizzying search for a new owner in Phoenix. A day after the Glendale City Council granted Ice Edge exclusive negotiating rights, Reinsdorf officially withdrew his offer to buy the team and left the city with one major player in its bid to keep the team in Arizona.

"Ultimately we came to the conclusion it was time to move on," Reinsdorf's group said in a statement. "We were happy to serve a critical role for the city to keep the team in Glendale, and we look forward to assisting the city in the future on other projects both as a company and individually."

The owner of the Chicago White Sox already has worked with Glendale on the Sox's new spring training home at Camelback Ranch, and as owner of the Chicago Bulls has had input on the proposed new training center proposed in Glendale for USA Basketball. Even though his group looked like the front-runner at several junctures to take over the Coyotes, the city eventually went with the group that appears committed to keeping the team in Arizona.

--Coyotes GM Don Maloney lashed out at the Canadian media, specifically the Toronto Globe and Mail, for what he saw as negative, unfair and inaccurate coverage of the Coyotes' financial woes and possible relocation to Canada.

"Is nothing else going on in Canada (that) they have to focus on us?" said Maloney, who is Canadian. "The (Toronto) Globe & Mail, I thought, has just been over the top in the negativity about this marketplace, almost trying to prove their point, regardless of what else is going on. I'm really disappointed. I used to read that paper all the time. I thought it was a great paper. It just seems so biased toward, in my opinion, their writing; some of the writers, not all their writers, have been just been so negative to this whole franchise.

"I know commissioner (Gary) Bettman has some detractors, but the way they portrayed him is a disgrace. It's an embarrassment to be a Canadian. That's my personal opinion. C'mon."

--Maloney has a tough act to follow this summer. He won the inaugural NHL General Manager of the Year Award for 2009-10, voted on by the league's general managers and a panel of executives and print and broadcast media.

QUOTE TO NOTE
"I'm honored and humbled. Truthfully, I think it's more a reflection of the performance of the organization. After the challenges we had this year, to come through, still breathing, it was very nice." -- Coyotes GM Don Maloney after being named NHL General Manager of the Year.

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