Ryan Smith discusses his drive to bring the NHL to Utah [FULL INTERVIEW] | Pat McAfee Show 

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You called it!

Yesssss!!!

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I'd say 32 is the perfect number.

@@RyanReynoldsHair32 is definitely good but I think 34 is probably the absolute maximum

Ohh….sorry the sport of hockey is growing 🙄

So? Im not even rich and i hate poor people too 😂

No the owner has to sell the coyotes first plus that will cost more money plus it has to be voted on by the owners

you called it

They should move the Jets to Salt Lake, better support and more money.

Hockeys leaving Canada cause that place has gone way down hill

@@bobstoops4864 imagine salt lake city selling more season tickets than winnipeg, that's laughable didn't the jets sellout every home game for ten years straight? (2010 to 2020) Utah is a joke - all those hard drinking hockey players in Utah get out of here

What are you 14? You sure have a lot to say but nobody's listening! @@sampicano

@@sampicanoJets are struggling with attendance clown even tho they are one of the best teams.

Its unlikely they will move Arizona... dont think they want to miss out on the billion dollar expansion fee from Utah... And I think Canadians have every right to be salty about another US team, since they are way more deserving of another NHL team than any US-market is. Just look at the TV-deal they got compared to the US.. the target audience is only a fraction of the US, yet their TV deal is almost as much; and thats part of the problem; they are watching hockey regardless, the only reason the NHL is expanding is to gain new customers, not to satifsy people who are already watching.

Its unlikely they will move Arizona... dont think they want to miss out on the billion dollar expansion fee from Utah... And I think Canadians have every right to be salty about another US team, since they are way more deserving of another NHL team than any US-market is. Just look at the TV-deal they got compared to the US.. the target audience is only a fraction of the US, yet their TV deal is almost as much; and thats part of the problem; they are watching hockey regardless, the only reason the NHL is expanding is to gain new customers, not to satifsy people who are already watching.

Its unlikely they will move Arizona... dont think they want to miss out on the billion dollar expansion fee from Utah... And I think Canadians have every right to be salty about another US team, since they are way more deserving of another NHL team than any US-market is. Just look at the TV-deal they got compared to the US.. the target audience is only a fraction of the US, yet their TV deal is almost as much; and thats part of the problem; they are watching hockey regardless, the only reason the NHL is expanding is to gain new customers, not to satifsy people who are already watching.

Its unlikely they will move Arizona... dont think they want to miss out on the billion dollar expansion fee from Utah... And I think Canadians have every right to be salty about another US team, since they are way more deserving of another NHL team than any US-market is. Just look at the TV-deal they got compared to the US.. the target audience is only a fraction of the US, yet their TV deal is almost as much; and thats part of the problem; they are watching hockey regardless, the only reason the NHL is expanding is to gain new customers, not to satifsy people who are already watching.

Its unlikely they will move Arizona... dont think they want to miss out on the billion dollar expansion fee from Utah... And I think Canadians have every right to be salty about another US team, since they are way more deserving of another NHL team than any US-market is. Just look at the TV-deal they got compared to the US.. the target audience is only a fraction of the US, yet their TV deal is almost as much; and thats part of the problem; they are watching hockey regardless, the only reason the NHL is expanding is to gain new customers, not to satifsy people who are already watching.

From the sounds of it ryan Smith wants an expansion team as well. But it might not come down to what he wants and he'll have to take what he can get (possibly the coyotes) lol. I live in utah and I'd prefer a brand new team over getting yalls hammy downs 😂 😉

@801MOTO3 I love my handmedown Yotes I love watching hockey in general. I wanna see an all new team in Utah too that would be awesome. There are plenty of cities that deserve and can support new teams. What would you like to see the new team be named ?

I live in Utah and would love to have NHL. I think everyone would rather have an expansion team. I hope the Coyotes get their act together and get a new stadium built. Then Utah and AZ could be rivals.

@dsarmy1 yes 100% agree. That would be a great rivalry.

Yeah those 500 fans would be devastated

Who says us in Utah doesn't follow NHL? If the NHL can afford to grow then it should. Maybe in a hundred years it grows to 60 teams but don't hate just because another city gets a team before another.

​@@dsarmy1 some cities are deserving of hockey...some cities are less deserving You can pretend as if salt lake city is on par with Milwaukee or Portland in terms of being hockey markets, but it just isn't. Milwaukee, Portland those are better, more deserving hockey markets - and teams in those cities would generate more revenue for the league. Houston has 7.1 million people - Salt Lake City has 1.2 million...it would be the SECOND SMALLEST MARKET IN THE US - dude go away Quebec City IS FAR MORE DESERVING and has a FAR LARGER FANBASE and has AN ACTUAL NHL READY ARENA Quebec City has the Videotron Centre (18,259 capacity) built in 2015. Salt Lake City has the Delta Center (14,000 capacity for hockey) and built in 1991...gross Salt Lake City is LITERALLY the 5th or 6th best option - if Coyotes have nowhere else to go...fine. But don't act as if Salt Lake City is a smart option, or a well deserving option. Maybe in 60 years Salt Lake City will have as many hockey fans with wallets as Quebec, when that happens you can have a team. Maybe when you get the Olympics in 2034 and actually build AN ARENA...then you can ACTUALLY have an NHL team. You know what they should do? See who can sell more season tickets....Quebec City or Salt Lake City Hold a season ticket drive in Quebec City (839,311) and a season ticket drive in Salt Lake City (1,257,936) and see who sells more tickets. And the city that sells more season tickets can have an NHL team LMFAO and you will see just how much better of a market Quebec City would be :)

@@sampicano You can't base what a deserving city is on population numbers. You're just a hateful person. You even mention it before. Get your panties out of a bunch before you make anymore comments.

You're only looking at the main metro population, which is contained mostly within Salt Lake County. The larger combined statistical area (CSA) that includes the Ogden and Provo areas is over 2.7 million, making it 22nd largest CSA in the US. This places it at around the same size as the CSA for Pittsburgh and larger than CSAs for other existing NHL markets in Nashville, Las Vegas and yes, Buffalo. On top of that, with how spread out things are in the west, media markets extend hundreds of miles beyond the main population center, often into other smaller secondary markets. The point is, media markets are more complex than just the localized population, especially when you consider current and projected growth. There are way more factors than what you have laid out.

@@flibbidyx2 I don't think he understands this. Utah's media market also includes parts of Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming because the bigger cities in those states are much farther away because western U.S. states are so large in area size.