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To me, SLC is about as boring a city as you can get for getting the Coyotes.

It sucks for hockey fans in Quebec City -passed over for a 3rd time. From the time TN built the MTS Centre, no new hockey markets received teams until the Thrashers came to Winnipeg. So we never had to suffer through the pain of being passed over even a single time.

Yeah, Las Vegas and Seattle were solid choices for expansion. But Utah? No strong hockey history and not even that big a city/media market. QC being passed over for SLC is a punch to the gut to the thousands who hope for a return of Les Nordiques. It seems inevitable that the Videotron Centre will have the same fate as Copps Coliseum in Hamilton: an arena built for an NHL dream that will never be fulfilled. I hope I'm wrong.
 
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I do feel for the Yotes fans, since I know what a disappointment losing your team feels like. But at the same time, the team got a lot of opportunities to be kept where they were - way more than Jets 1.0 had. I'm pretty salty about that.

Although SLC does seem like an odd choice for relocation. I guess time will tell if that turns out to be a good hockey market.

Was hoping for the team to relocate to Atlanta so we could do a history swap...
 
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AussieBomberJet said:
Regardless of what anyone says, moving the Yotes is the right move. Hockey doesn't work in a pro-sports calibre down there. It never has and it never will. It's time to accept this fact and move on with life.
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Never has and never will, except for the fact that there's been a professional hockey team playing in SLC since 1984.
 
Brominator said:
To me, SLC is about as boring a city as you can get for getting the Coyotes.

It sucks for hockey fans in Quebec City -passed over for a 3rd time. From the time TN built the MTS Centre, no new hockey markets received teams until the Thrashers came to Winnipeg. So we never had to suffer through the pain of being passed over even a single time.

Yeah, Las Vegas and Seattle were solid choices for expansion. But Utah? No strong hockey history and not even that big a city/media market. QC being passed over for SLC is a punch to the gut to the thousands who hope for a return of Les Nordiques. It seems inevitable that the Videotron Centre will have the same fate as Copps Coliseum in Hamilton: an arena built for an NHL dream that will never be fulfilled. I hope I'm wrong.
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Untapped gambling population
 
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tbcwpg said:
They're Mormons, the beer line is going to be the shortest in the league. It's about "expansion into non-traditional markets".
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The interviews I have listened to with the Ryan Smith (proposed new owner and the owner of the Jazz) have left me with the impression his is pretty sharp.
 
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SLC is attracting many non Mormons these days as there footprint is get smaller and smaller, will it succeed who knows. The biggest mistakes the NHL did was letting the Coyotes moved into a University Campus in a smaller than 5k building, people towed the party line about how great is was but it was bush league and frankly didn't work.
 
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I think QC needs what happened to the Coyotes to happen to an Eastern team. Only reason why it made sense to move Thrashers to Winnipeg in West is it gave Detroit an excuse to move to East.

Unfortunately, I don’t there is a team in the East on reasonably shaky ground, now that Florida has seemingly turned things around.
 
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bustamente said:
SLC is attracting many non Mormons these days as there footprint is get smaller and smaller, will it succeed who knows. The biggest mistakes the NHL did was letting the Coyotes moved into a University Campus in a smaller than 5k building, people towed the party line about how great is was but it was bush league and frankly didn't work.
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Yeah, part of the reason the Jets moved the first time was the arena and a lack of a new one. There's no way 5 years at Mullett was sustainable without the new arena already being under construction.

Apparently the sale is $1.2bn with $1bn going to Meruelo and 200m to the owners as a relocation fee. Meruelo also has a guarantee that he'll get a team if they can build a rink within 5 years and then Meruelo will have to pay back the $1bn, something tells me the arena won't be built.

I do think SLC will work for hockey. Utah is great for an outdoorsman and the Church doesn't have that big a hold on the city itself, though it definitely impacts life from day to day. Could be seeing it on the top NTC destinations starting next year.
 
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Hobble said:
I think QC needs what happened to the Coyotes to happen to an Eastern team. Only reason why it made sense to move Thrashers to Winnipeg in West is it gave Detroit an excuse to move to East.
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The reason it made sense to move the Thrashers to Winnipeg was that:

a) Nobody in Atlanta wanted to own a team anymore and threw the keys on the table,
b) Chipman/Thompson convinced Bettman that Wpg was ready for an emergency transfer.

It had nothing to do with Detroit.
 
Skidooboy said:
I laugh at the excuses for why Glendale failed....
"it's to far to drive"
Like the fans in Toronto or Chicago, Detroit or any of the Northern teams who drive just as far in -20C snowy pothole filled roads have it easier than AZ folks on breezy warm freeways . XD XD
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There is more to why Glendale failed. The team did not get any revenue from concessions or parking. When they tried to negotiate a new deal the deal died and they got booted out.
 
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tbcwpg said:
They're Mormons, the beer line is going to be the shortest in the league. It's about "expansion into non-traditional markets".
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Salt Lake City metro is smaller than Calgary, Edmonotn and Ottawa, don't know how they support both the NBA and NHL with only 1.3M
 
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