Arizona Coyotes president and CEO Xavier A. Gutierrez told ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski on Wednesday he expects the team to sell out all of its home games at Mullett Arena on the Arizona State University campus.

The Coyotes previously played out of Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, AZ from 2003 to 2022, with their tenure at the facility ending after the city of Glendale elected not to renew the team’s lease.

While the Coyotes attempt to close a deal with the city of Tempe, AZ this fall to build a new $1.7 billion entertainment district — including a privately funded 16,000-seat arena — they’ll spend at least the next three seasons as a temporary tenant at the ASU Sun Devils’ brand-new 5,000-seat ice hockey facility. Tempe City Council voted 5–2 earlier this year to begin formal negotiations with the Coyotes on their arena proposal.

“We know this is going to be sold out for every single game and we never had any doubt that was going to be the case,” Gutierrez told ESPN. “We could have sold this out to our existing season ticket base, but we didn’t think that was the right approach. We want to make sure that fans who have never experienced a game could experience it. That’s a very tricky thing when you’ve downsized capacity.”