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Around the NHL: 2024-25 Season, Are You Not Entertained?

Jim Bob

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Inside Utah Hockey Club’s unprecedented five-month scramble to NHL opening night​


“We redid our (basketball) locker rooms, too, as we went through all this,” Smith said from Scotland that night. “The team’s working all night. They’re still working. I bet if I walked in there, it wouldn’t look like it was ready. But by tomorrow, somehow, it will be.”

Somehow, it will be. The Utah Hockey Club doesn’t have a nickname yet — the Yetis seems to be the front-runner — but that could certainly be its slogan. Hockey, in Utah? Somehow, it will be. An NHL-caliber facility wedged into the basketball-only Delta Center? Somehow, it will be. A team, a home, a practice facility, an identity and a culture rising from the ashes of the Arizona Coyotes in just a few months? Somehow, it will be.

And somehow, it is. On Tuesday night, in front of perhaps 16,000 fans — up to 5,000 of whom will have paid for the privilege of not even being able to see one of the goals thanks to the quirks of the arena — Utah Hockey Club will step onto the ice at Delta Center in its home blues and become the 53rd incarnation of a National Hockey League team, a five-month-old franchise hosting the 98-year-old Chicago Blackhawks.
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Zman5778 said:
I'm actually looking forward to tuning into the UHC game tonight......always love seeing team debuts.
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Huh. I hadn't thought about it but now that you mention it, it does sound interesting.

Thanks for the heads up. :popcorn:
 
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Korpisalo is going to be a huge liability for Boston. Except against us of course, as is tradition for backups.
 
Zman5778

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The NHL is freaking awful at hyping up the game. Opening night tripleheader?

Sure, no issue.

Game 1 over before the SC Champs have their banner celebration? Good job. Nearly at a successful night.

Game 2 not over before their brand spanking new team debuts? JFC.
 
Sabre the Win

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I'm a big fan of Maccelli, he's who I imaged Krebs could be.

He's a very underrated player especially being buried on Utah's 3rd line.
 

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Before the season I made a bet(loser treats the other to wings on our bi-weekly wing night) with a Boston fan that the Sabres would finish above the Bruins in the standings. Yesterday helped my doom and gloom just a little.
 
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