Less than a week before the 2019-20 season's resumption, the Arizona Coyotes revealed that John Chayka was no longer the team's president of hockey operations or general manager.
On Sunday, the Yotes announced that Chayka had quit and that Steve Sullivan, the team's assistant general manager, will be serving as interim GM.
According to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet, the relationship between Chayka and Coyotes ownership "deteriorated in a hurry." Part of that stems from the fact that Chayka received an offer from another team in the league, per Friedman.
"Some sources indicated that it was not a lateral move, bigger than the current job Chayka was doing," Friedman wrote.