[News] Utah Jazz owners formally ask NHL to begin expansion process to bring a team to Utah

[MRCboicgy]

All that Qualtrics and Adobe cash?

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Since Utah is the "Beehive State."

Salt Lake Swarm.

Utah Buzz.

Their logo.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Since pro sports teams in that town are named after musical genres not historically linked to the city, show about the Salt Lake Techno?

[Bill Bumface]

The John Stocktons.

[Muffins]

Salt Lake City Soakers
Utah Big Love

The possibilities are endless.

[Jiggy]

Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

The John Stocktons.

So the entire team will have extremely short hockey pants?

[Strange Brew]

The Coyotes should be releasing a "we are interested in a piece of land" nugget soon.

This is going to be a topic of discussion for Bettman at the AS game so Coyotes will be looing to put something out there, whether it is based in reality or not.

[CSharp]

Here's another one:

Utah Saltlick Handmaidens

[Jordan!]

The Coyotes are not moving



More on that in 2 weeks

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Jordan!

The Coyotes are not moving

The Utah Acme Anvils.

[dustygoon]

Does a press release like this help or hurt their cause?

[codynw]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Asking for expansion now likely means Coyotes relocation is now off the table.

For a little while at least.

[Calgary4LIfe]

The Utah Coyotes seems like a good fit! Name should be free, as I doubt very much the Coyotes name will carry on in Atlanta.



I kid, I kid...


Utah Monsters (the Gila Monster lives there)
Utah Rattlers/Rattlesnakes (would be annoying, but I can see marketing ideas with baby-like rattle giveaways/promotions)
Utah Sea Monkeys (the older people know what this is)

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Jiggy

So the entire team will have extremely short hockey pants?

Salt Lake Nutters.

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by bluejays

Never been to Utah, but heard great things. There’s big corporate money and wealthy private citizens to make it work.

Place is super cool. Most beautiful state in the US. You can ride the Trax 15 minutes from the brand new airport to the Delta Center and downtown, very convenient.

Nashville will love this, it’s their ticket out of the Western Conference.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

It's crazy to me that THE #1 sport by a mile the NFL has been at 32 teams for 20+ years and it's the NHL that wants to expand past 32? After only a year or two of introducing Seattle?

The NHL has seven teams in Canada. All NFL teams are in the U.S. That makes a difference in terms of market penetration.

Originally Posted by Gugstanley

The Population of the Wasatch Front is larger than Calgary. I don't think Salt Lake will have a problem supporting an NHL team.

Competition for bums on seats will be tough, with the Jazz already there and playing at the same time of year.

Originally Posted by Icon

I suppose if the NHL's been ok with the 'yotes playing in an arena with 5k, maybe they just build a ~10k capacity arena in Salt Lake City?

The NHL will never give out an expansion franchise on those terms. The league has not been ‘OK’ with the Coyotes playing in a 5,000-seat arena, but they accepted it as a temporary measure; just as they accepted the Flames playing temporarily in the 7,000-seat Corral. I don't see them accepting any permanent arena smaller than Winnipeg's.

[Coach]

The Utah Hockey Club of Latter Day Saints

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by Jordan!

The Coyotes are not moving

More on that in 2 weeks

Tomorrow is a latter day.

[Reggie Dunlop]

The Utah (Fighting) Saints?

Being in the Jazz stable, it would make some sense to run with the colour palette of the Jazz: Black, yellow and white. Which lends itself to a Bee-related name.

The ownership group also has financial stakes in MLS side Real Salt Lake, which uses blue, red and gold.

[Icon]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

The NHL will never give out an expansion franchise on those terms. The league has not been ‘OK’ with the Coyotes playing in a 5,000-seat arena, but they accepted it as a temporary measure; just as they accepted the Flames playing temporarily in the 7,000-seat Corral. I don't see them accepting any permanent arena smaller than Winnipeg's.

Which is exactly why I thought it was surprising they'd be interested in going to such a low populated city.

Winnipeg has 4x the population of Salt Lake City.