Around the NHL: Training Camps and Pre-Season Games

[Jim Bob]

EF's list of waiver claims today:

Reimer (ANA)
Patera (VAN)
Schwindt & Lavoie (VGK)
Aston-Reese (CBus)

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843351753850507451

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843351833991098850

 

[Jim Bob]

After Igor Shesterkin rejects Rangers’ $11 million AAV offer, what’s next?

Frank Seravalli provided an update on the negotiations during Tuesday’s DFO Live.

www.dailyfaceoff.com

 

[Jim Bob]

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.

 

[Zman5778]

I'm actually looking forward to tuning into the UHC game tonight......always love seeing team debuts.

 

[tsujimoto74]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843336375833395611

I’m shocked. Well, not that shocked.

 

[Gras]