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Rangers regularly try to discourage coyotes who come into close contact with human-created sources of food by hazing them with shouts and loud noises. And that sometimes works. But if a coyote learns where fishermen drop fish guts or where campers and picnickers gather, it becomes increasingly difficult to convince the animal to leave, she said.

Reynolds said its possible that the coyote involved in the Thursday night biting incident is the same animal that menaced a woman walking on Race Point in Provincetown recently, though that would be very difficult to confirm. Reynolds noted, however, that the two incidents did not take place near each other. Last year, there were five, he said.

Wattles said the boy who was bitten in Arlington attempted to run away and the coyote naturally gave chase. Arlington police said there have been more coyote sightings in town. The same has been true in Watertown. The Watertown Police Department posted an advisory on Facebook after three coyotes attacked a dog while its owner was walking it on Walnut Street on Friday night. Coyotes are not native to Massachusetts.

They first arrived here in the s and have since made themselves home in every city and town across the mainland part of the state, according to Wattles. Since then their population has increased. In urban areas like Boston, coyotes can be found on bike paths and in all sorts of green spaces, including parks, golf courses, and cemeteries.

There have been several incidents of coyotes acting assertively toward people on Cape Cod this summer. Leslie Reynolds, deputy superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore, said coyotes will exhibit that kind of behavior when they get accustomed to being fed by people or eating food scraps on the beach.

The City of Glendale, Ariz. Since , the Coyotes have been among the bottom four teams in attendance every year but three: The high-water mark was , when they moved from the NBA arena in downtown Phoenix to the new rink in Glendale and finished 19th.

In the two seasons after that they were 22nd in and 24th in Ticket sales, game-day concessions, and merchandise account for about 50 percent of annual NHL revenue, commissioner Gary Bettman said earlier this year.

Youth hockey in the area, which can always present Auston Matthews as its shining motivational example to kids with nascent NHL dreams, would suffer immensely without a team.

The year-old Bettman, who has previously stated that the Glendale arrangement was untenable for the Coyotes, brought hockey to several Sun Belt locales in his tenure 29 years as commissioner as of Feb. The Coyotes, who have made the playoffs once since reaching the Western Conference finals, have expressed a public interest in Tempe. On the east border of Phoenix, near the puck-happy campus of Arizona State and nightlife of Scottsdale, it seems like a good fit.

Gila River Arena, as of now, may be their only option. No other local rinks have NHL-quality seating and amenities. ASU has its forks in the ground, conjuring up a 5,seat arena in Tempe. So the howling from other cities floats throughout the Valley, as it did when the Coyotes declared bankruptcy in Houston, the fifth-largest city in North America, would be a natural rival for Dallas.

Quebec City, its expansion bid shrugged off by Bettman and Co. Kansas City has a longstanding interest. The Toronto market is forever eager for more teams.

NHL-caliber digs are waiting in each locale. Anyone still have interest in Hartford? Seems that ship has been put in dry dock indefinitely, while the Hurricanes continue to make a buck off Whalers merchandise. The Coyotes could go back to Glendale, hat in hand, and hammer out less-favorable terms. The cynical among us would say the pandemic was a convenient excuse to embrace the inevitable. Yes, jersey ads are coming. Beginning with the season, teams will be allowed to sew a patch on the chest or shoulders of jerseys for some extra revenue.

Teams could make more on these TV-friendly garnishes than they do on naming rights to their arenas.