The National Hockey League’s Board of Governors has approved the establishment of an NHL franchise in Utah that will be owned and controlled by Smith Entertainment Group, led by Ryan and Ashley Smith, beginning in the 2024-25 NHL season.
Effective at closing, the approved transactions will result in the Arizona Coyotes franchise transferring the totality of its existing hockey assets – including its full Reserve List, roster of Players and draft picks and its Hockey Operations Department – to the Utah franchise.
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49 Comments
Booooooo!!! Salt Lake City is trash.
I'm so excited that I peed in my magic underwear.
Opening shot does not speak hockey at all. They should’ve shown fans from the 03 Olympics. Gosh give me that job please.
Great move NHL, going from a 6.5 million person market to a 1.4 million person market, and it's going to be way better? Bettman had it in for the Coyotes for years. Meruelo doesn't and didn't know what he's doing owning a team
Utah Pυταs. It's Spanish.
The Salt Lake Slewfoots
Bettman's NHL is like watching a Circus falling apart then catching fire at the end
You guys were quick to wash your hands of Arizona huh?
The Utah Big Buttes
"You go to Utah, you STAY in Utah!"
– Frank, the angry editor from 'Fletch'
Gary Bettman is doing the Jeremy Clarkson "Oh no! Anyway…" meme right now
The Utah Soakers
Call them the Salt Lake City swarm!
Nobody except the handful of people who live in Utah wants this.
Now you finally promote the coyotes? Horrible the way you've treated Arizona fans this past year
No one wanted this. Should’ve stayed in Arizona
I hope Keller leaves asap yall don’t deserve him and Cooley and gaunther off rip
A little early don’t you think?
I can’t wait to see the Utah team play in the NHL at The Delta Center in Salt Lake City for the 2024-2025! Let’s Get it SLC!
It would be an excellent side trip for me if the Toledo walleye play the Utah grizzlies and if we’re out there a whole week perfect day to see the new Utah team
Mountain tall, Utah. They're going to be really good very fast. They'll be ready to take on the Golden Knights
Damn, now the Wild only get 41 home games.
I hope this SLC team becomes the Jazz of the NHL a do noething team for a do noething city that desperately wants to be anything other than what it was, is anw will aleays be known as, a cultural wasteland. SCREW MURUELO, the NHL and SLC SUCKS!.
DONE with the NHL as tbey race the NBA and MLB in a race rowards irrelevance.
the coyotes should have stayed in arizona. it wasn't the fans' fault that meruelo was a total idiot
Wheres is quebec Nordiques ??
Bettman doesnt like canadian teams 🙁
Utah a cup in 2 years..guaranteed by Bettman…
TOUTAH!
Nobody is pleased with you right now, NHL. You screwed over Arizona and expect us to ignore that whole mess and be excited? Every other team sympathizes with the Coyotes right now, and you shmucks can’t even wait, nor can you appropriately acknowledge the situation as a whole.
Utah coyotes sounds weird
Utah Cajuns
It makes sense, if you think about it.
even though they are partialy are seperate from the yotes they sitll twon't get expansion draft right
Here what the team should be named the Utah Mormons;).
Being from Utah and a Coyotes fan, I feel guilty & yet ecstatic 😅
THE UTAH MORMONS! 😂
If the new team in Utah represents a new franchise, what will happen to the draft picks of the defunct Coyotes?
Can’t wait to see a bunch of pastors with their 7 wives
The news is definitely bittersweet.
I wonder what the new name is…
great decision utah will be a success
This is going to be a disaster 😂
I've waited to see this since the 2002 olympics. Now the Knights and Avs will have a natural rivalry, cheers to Utah. ✊🏼
The coyotes should stay in AZ
I hope the AHL’s Tucson Roadrunners move to Tempe and make the Coyotes a minor league team!
RETURN TO ARIZONA
Nah an utah nhl team before a Mistissini hockey team is wild. NHL trippin’
Should be the Summits.
In a move that has a lot of us shaking our heads in confusion.
Arizona Coyotes Replaced by Utah Tornadoes