Why Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith is hellbent on bringing an NHL team to Salt Lake City

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Why Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith is hellbent on bringing an NHL team to Salt Lake City
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Smith wants to use the blueprint of his wildly successful basketball team to launch hockey into a different stratosphere.

SALT LAKE CITY — It does not require a lot of imagination to picture Ryan Smith as a roller hockey player. Three hours before his host the at the Delta Center, Smith is inside the team’s practice facility wearing a turquoise hoodie, white pants and white sneakers — without socks. He completes his signature, laid-back ensemble by placing a backwards black ballcap on his head.

At the general managers meetings in Florida last month, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly indicated it might be too late to relocate the Coyotes franchise for the start of the 2024-25 NHL season. “Probably not. I don’t believe so,” if there was enough time to move the team. But when the NHL relocated the Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg in the spring of 2011, in the weeks leading up to the sale of the team. On May 20, 2011, NHL commissioner that stated the Thrashers were bound for Winnipeg.

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