New NHL team comes to Utah 

Utah welcome to the nhl from winnipeg

Salt Lake Golden Eagles from the old IHL - still a great name

Utah congrats cheers from Calgary

4 hours after they started accepting season ticket deposits....... 11k and counting. This is promising for Utah.

Ryan Smith played Jr. JAZZ basketball as a child. There will be grass roots programs for sure.

Utah Pioneers!! Welcome to the NHL from your friends up the road in Edmonton!!

Not to mention Arizona is in the middle of the desert and in Utah you could go play hockey on any lake in the winter haha.

I am a Utah'n and I am so excited... Hockey is the only sport that I can fan out for and consistently watch as an adult and has been since my Senior year of HighSchool. Football lost its glow years ago, randomly this year has Basketball been a decent pass time even though takes a hour to finish the final 60 seconds of a game and that makes me wanna pull my hair out. I am so happy to have a NHL team as a home team. If anywhere is worthy of the Yotes its here. We take our local teams seriously 'round deez parts and will not be another expansion "bandwagon" fanbase. Our ECHL team the Grizzlies have averaged an attendance at home this year just below 7k this season and they are 3 tiers of pro play below NHL. I feel for the Coyote fans, having their team stripped away because ownership has sat on their thumbs for to long. Let alone right when they are finally getting out of the rebuild stage with an impressive young lineup. If anywhere will treat the whole organization as they've deserved to be it will be here. I am so happy that they didnt go to Huston or Portland or across the border. They just jumped up a state to one of the most stereotyped and overlooked places there is and will have a great home here.

I was born and raised in Edmonton in the 80's and the Oilers will always be my #1 team, but I've now lived in SLC for over 15 years and im so happy to see Utah pick up a team! I may have a new 2nd favorite team. Too bad that its at the expense of the Coyotes fans though.

Utah Yeti! Welcome to the league! Cheers from Edmonton!

Great having Kathryn back. Like seeing an old friend from the NESN days.

We here in Alaska lost our ECHL team that won two Kelly cups! Anchorage Aces! Sad!

They sold 6000 season tickets in the first two hours!!

The Utah Stormin' Mormons

A big congratulations to Salt Lake City...I hope that the players will be happy. The new owners and the city will make it happen. But what a disaster for Meruelo and Phoenix, how could they screw this up so bad after so many years.

Not just that Alex Meruelo would have to pay exactly what he just sold the team for to the NHL if he would be able to re activate the Arizona Coyotes if he could build a Arena in 5 years. I’d Love to see the NHL stay in Arizona but under new Ownership. Meruelo and his team have destroyed the Foundation of Hockey in Arizona. It will be a Challenge in Utah with less people living in that State but if anyone can do it, Ryan Smith is the Man to have in Control. He is being Handed a Heck of a Talented Team. Im looking forward to seeing what type of Core that Utah puts out on the Ice next Season.

Technically the team is not new, it’s just rebranded.

Utah Ultrasonics?

So what happens if Arizona is able to get their shit together in the 5 years? They re-enter league as an expantion team and start from scratch?

The NHL bent over backwards for the NHL in Arizona and it didn't work

LOVE HOCKEY IN ARIZONA. HATE ALEX MERUELO!!! THE WORST ABOUT HOCKEY IS MERUELO.

Rupp, You played with our Alaskan Gomez! We longtime Alaskan’s still can’t believe how we lost our ECHL team!

I think they should be call Salt Lake City Coyotes

I hope that 5 years from now, Arizona gets a nice facility and the coyotes back and they feel like change was a positive one for them.

Thank you Arizona is done for the next few years

Does a new arena actually need to be built or just property secured, funding in place and shovel ready? 5 years is not very long to get all that done.

Kinda hoped they'd keep Coyotes name

attentend a game in PHX a few months ago 4500 seat arena was half full!! phx fans were not showing up.... just the facts...

It's not a new team, it's an old team, they have been in phoenix for a while you know? Decades even.

Welcome to the Utah Spazz

The own doesn't deserve a new team he sucks. They need to get new own to bring the team back.

The Utah Beezz.

Utah Elk, that is the state mammal of Utah.

Yeah there might not be a name when they start...it'll just be the Utah hockey club..WTH?

What's their name? The Utah Rap?

NHL tried to sell hockey to Arizona, especially in PHX, and still failed, so move on to the next Western State - Utah.

Quebec City should have gotten the team.

The Utah Honey Badgers

The Skating Mormons?

Quebec should had a team before the last 3 cities...

DOWN WITH UTAH!!!!

I hope the Arizona Coyotes might comeback as a reboot version expansion team with new players

This will drive housing through the roof, beyond what it is now. They already said sales tax will go up. Traffic and crime will also go up, mark my words. This is not for Utah, this is for greed, period.

The NHL could absolutely still screw this up. Its not done until its all signed. This is the league that sold a team to a guy with $100,000 after all.......

Outlaws operated in Utah. All gangs had a home base, a hideout. UTAH HIDEOUT. Or as a nickname for the arena should the team become UTAH OUTLAWS. A bandana mask under a cowboy hat. With coyote eyes in between.

Already bought my season tickets to the Delta Center! LET’S GO UTAH! 😍

Should've have been Quebec!

The team name should be the Utah Disco!!!

Oh by the way I forgot to give the Utah there new , how about the Utah wives 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 .

The Utah Mormons

Should be called the Utah Raptors, named after the state dinosaur. Killer mascot!

What Smith did was preferential treatment, aka DISCRIMINATION!!!

Smith conveniently only emailed Utah Jazz season ticket holders first. He gave the rest of us REAL hockey fans, the middle finger. The right way, would have been to make an announcement, across all media sources, announcing that season ticket sales would open in 48 hours. That way EVERYONE has the same opportunity. This was a classless move! No integrity!!!

Toronto should have a second team.

What a joke…. Wtf does that city know about hockey????lol I give it 10 yrs max and then it’s gonna be empty. They care more about having 10 wives in Utah not hockey???lol

The new owners should have had a name already picked out. It makes Utahans look like their a little backwards.

Arizona coyotes will return because both owners because neither do not have a arena for them that is NHL ready