The NHL’s Board of Governors approved the establishment of a franchise beginning with the 2024-25 season in Utah. In addition, a plan was approved that renders the Arizona Coyotes franchise inactive, with a right to reactivate if owner Alex Meruelo has fully constructed a new, state-of-the-art facility appropriate for an NHL team within five years. The TSN Hockey Insiders have more.
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So basically the new team will go with the Utah Hockey Club/Utah HC monicer until they have their official name during/after next season?
Maybe they’ll follow PWHL and just be named Utah or SLC
Fix your audio levels. Look up LUFTS. Geez.
The ownership is embarrassing
The Utah Polygamists
The Salt Lake City Saints. You heard it from me first folks. Joe Jones. Imagine games between New Jersey and Salt Lake? It would be a Biblical rivalry.
As a leaf’s fan I’m pretty excited about this news
The Utah Unnameables😁👍?!
The Utah Latter day Saints,or the door knockers 😂
Move Columbus to Central
Move Buffalo to metro
Move Arizona to Quebec City
I'm surprised anyone was willing to spend $1.2 billion to acquire a hobo hockey team.
Ryam Smith bamboozled hockey fans here in SLC. He sent out e-mails, ONLY to Utah Jazz season ticket holders, who, btw, get exclusive rights to buy them. That is sleezy, and discrimination. Hours later he decides to put it out on tv, after 11K are already sold. He is a vulgar charlatan. Discriminating against any hockey fan who wished to purchase them.
Why was Shane Doan’s banner thrown away? That owner is a joke. No way Gary lets him back in the club. Good riddance Mereulo.
Honestly, I have never liked this whole “move the players and staff, but the ‘team’ stays”…
I still say the Baltimore Ravens are the original Cleveland Browns and the current Browns are the expansion team.
F that guy, I hope he doesn’t go through with it. Sell it to someone who can make it work
I say take the Utah Grizzlies name, I think that'd be badass, yeah it shares a nickname with a NBA team but the Jets share one with an NFL team and Rangers with an MLB team.
Utah Cajuns
That Yotes owner has set AZ hockey back forever. AZ with the water situation etc isnt gunna work. Sucks for the real fans but if they do try again theres no way in hell it can be same ownership.
The hockey rink was so bad they decided to play on a basketball court.
If the Utah HC manages to make the playoffs in their first couple of seasons, that's a flaming indictment of Coyotes management.
Moving the Yotes to a flyover state filled with places you can't drink into a 30 year old areana, and not Quebec City is a slap in the face to all of Canada. As a New Yorker that travels to multiple away games per year SLC my feet will never step foot into SLC.
The Winnipeg Jets are calling the Winnipeg Jets
watch out winnipeg they already started the narrative that phoenix is getting a team again