Per Friedman: Coyotes players told team moving to Utah starting next season (Mod warning post #50)

[Ted Hoffman]

The NHL regular season ends at the end of the coming week, how fast do you guys think we will get an decision? Will the NHL drag this out? or will the decision be made quickly?

My guess: it will be announced in that day or two between the end of the regular season and the playoffs. Gives everyone time to talk about it and it fades away before the playoffs start and then everyone's attention turns to that.

Alternate guess: the league tells everyone shut the f*** up and everything stays quiet until that gap between the end of the Finals and the draft. Which, to be honest, I'm kind of surprised the league hasn't done - or, if it has done, it hasn't REALLY gone after everyone to reinforce shut the f*** up.

 

[rojac]

The NHL regular season ends at the end of the coming week, how fast do you guys think we will get an decision? Will the NHL drag this out? or will the decision be made quickly?

A decision on the team name? I woukdn't be surprised if they waited until the draft to announce that.

 

[StreetHawk]

A decision on the team name? I woukdn't be surprised if they waited until the draft to announce that.

Have to make sure all trademarks and stuff are handled. Thus better to go with Utah Coyotes until that is resolved z. Kind of like Tenn Oilers of nfl for 2 years before they became the Titans.

 

[Bradely]

Heard that Coyotes are moving to UTAH but also Heard, expansion is anticipated and Arizona and Houston should have a team.......

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Have to make sure all trademarks and stuff are handled. Thus better to go with Utah Coyotes until that is resolved z. Kind of like Tenn Oilers of nfl for 2 years before they became the Titans.

SEG is rebranding it entirely so Coyotes may not be available....

 

[eojsmada]

Heard that Coyotes are moving to UTAH but also Heard, expansion is anticipated and Arizona and Houston should have a team.......

I don't think they'll drop two teams in again, at the same time. They already have an issue with talent depletion. They need to let Seattle be around for at least 5 years and then they'll start pushing for Atlanta.

 

[Apex Predator]

Heard that Coyotes are moving to UTAH but also Heard, expansion is anticipated and Arizona and Houston should have a team.......

Wouldn’t the cause an issue with trying to balance east and west. Would be 18 west and 16 east. I guess they can just expand to Atlanta and another east coast city.

 

[eojsmada]

Wouldn’t the cause an issue with trying to balance east and west. Would be 18 west and 16 east. I guess they can just expand to Atlanta and another east coast city.

Yeah...Bettman has gone on record and said that any "lopsided" looking divisions/conferences aren't an issue. They can work around it a smidge by moving Columbus or Nashville back to the east for a few seasons

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Yeah...Bettman has gone on record and said that any "lopsided" looking divisions/conferences aren't an issue. They can work around it a smidge by moving Columbus or Nashville back to the east for a few seasons

Columbus was moved to the East as part of Detroit's agreement to switch conferemces much like why Toronto is in the Atlantic........ folks forget that Michigan is Eastern time

 

[eojsmada]

Columbus was moved to the East as part of Detroit's agreement to switch conferemces much like why Toronto is in the Atlantic........ folks forget that Michigan is Eastern time

So then Nashville will move over, if needed.

 

[majormajor]

Utah history is full of gunslingers and bandits. (And Mormons back then were involved in a lot of violence and massacres, far from being the goody-two-shoes of today, though I'm sure Mormon references will be avoided in the team name.)

I do think Bandits, Outlaws, Marauders, names like that all fit the state history well.

I'd like to do something with bees but Bees, Sting, Swarm, Honey, they all sound silly or like a minor league team. Maybe I'd come around on Swarm.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

So then Nashville will move over, if needed.

WE'RE not realigning conferences YET

 

[viper0220]

A decision on the team name? I woukdn't be surprised if they waited until the draft to announce that.

The decision to say that the team is moving.

 

[banks]

The exact same idea was floated when it was thought the Coyotes were going back to Winnipeg, too.

I've suggested the idea every time the Coyotes have gone through relocation rumors. I posted it on old websites when Balsillie tried to snag them back in like 2008.

Using Phoenix as the team name just makes too much sense to pass up the opportunity. And it sounds just so, so cool.

 

[kvladimir]

Utah history is full of gunslingers and bandits. (And Mormons back then were involved in a lot of violence and massacres, far from being the goody-two-shoes of today, though I'm sure Mormon references will be avoided in the team name.)

I do think Bandits, Outlaws, Marauders, names like that all fit the state history well.

I'd like to do something with bees but Bees, Sting, Swarm, Honey, they all sound silly or like a minor league team. Maybe I'd come around on Swarm.

Utah Rebels?

 

[Megustaelhockey]

Didn’t stop the cardinals, kings, rangers, or jets. Why would it stop SLC?

It's just not worth having a dupe in the internet/SEO era.

 

[herashak]

Roadrunners isn’t that bad of a name…

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

do the players have a say? Or is their contract binding of expansion?

If I were brought up through the Arizona org I would want to stay close to the state

 

[cslebn]

Utah history is full of gunslingers and bandits. (And Mormons back then were involved in a lot of violence and massacres, far from being the goody-two-shoes of today, though I'm sure Mormon references will be avoided in the team name.)

I do think Bandits, Outlaws, Marauders, names like that all fit the state history well.

I'd like to do something with bees but Bees, Sting, Swarm, Honey, they all sound silly or like a minor league team. Maybe I'd come around on Swarm.

I like the swarm for the crowd.

 

[Gnashville]

As the team name goes would they use Salt Lake City instead of Utah?

 

[majormajor]

I like the swarm for the crowd.

It would make for a pretty good team-focused identity.

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

As the team name goes would they use Salt Lake City instead of Utah?

Start off as Salt Lake but change it to the broader 'Utah' when they can't secure an arena deal and roam around the state for a couple of decades.

 

[BB79]

Utah Hoodoos

If you don't know what a Hoodoo is, check out Bryce Canyon National Park. Hoodoos are probably the most iconic geologic formations in Utah.

Their logo will look like a phallic rock formation?

 

[Ted Hoffman]

do the players have a say? Or is their contract binding of expansion?

If I were brought up through the Arizona org I would want to stay close to the state

No, the players don't have a say. The contract is with the franchise, whatever it's named and wherever it plays. The franchise moves, the players go with it. The franchise changes names, the players stay contracted with the franchise in its new name.

 

[StreetHawk]

do the players have a say? Or is their contract binding of expansion?

If I were brought up through the Arizona org I would want to stay close to the state

Players go with the team which holds their rights. For the players, ever since the coyotes went to a year to year lease with Glendale Arena, the future of the team in AZ became a legit question mark. That's the way its been for the past 4 seasons. So, if you were at any point over the past 4 years due to be a UFA, it was ultimately your choice to stay with the organization knowing that the future in AZ was uncertain. Such as a Lawson Crouse. It's just the reality of their situation. Aside from Keller and maybe Schmaltz, I don't think anyone else would have signed their current contract before the year to year lease began.