It forget about it hey okay so uh big news for the future of Utah speaking of space uh so we're talking about Utah professional sports Jazz owner Ryan Smith uh made an official proposal to bring NHL hockey to the state the Smith Entertainment Group is so confident in this bit that they want to immediately begin hosting a hockey team in Salt Lake.
At the Delta Center Ryan Smith's plan includes a new Arena and it also mentioned Utah's Olympic history and the likelihood of hosting the 2034 games we talked to some fans today who seemed hyped up about the pro hockey team in Utah yeah as long as ticketing is reasonably priced I don't know if the Market's high enough to charge you know.
More than maybe a jazz game um take it goes for right now I've been to a Grizzly game and they' had a lot of fun I know there's a lot of fans of the grizzly set that is amazing what gets me is it seems like things are coming fast Fast and Furious going for an NHL team going for an MLB team both of those are seen.
As pretty likely to happen in the next year or two and also the announcement about the Olympics I mean just it seems major sports related news is just hitting Utah one after the other well it's a race just like how there was a race to get to the moon you know uh there is a race here when we're talking about sporting Enterprises uh simply.
Because like for instance with in Dallas talking about basketball the Dallas Mavericks um the whole area I believe it's Victory plaza they have a whole area that's been built around the American Airline Center and it's turned into this entertainment conglomerate of gloriousness and so you have all of these major cities and of.
Course you know we've been competing with Lo against Las Vegas so and Las Vegas is like an entertainment Hub one of my favorite cities and so to attract tourism and to get those dollars you have to pretty much shine make your shoes shinier than what they were before so that way people will be interested in coming to Utah for sporting events or at.
Least to generate more Revenue in a way that would um make us competitive with other places who have built this you know sporting Empire if you will so uh after today's announcement Ryan Smith appeared on the uh Pat Uh maffy show McAfee show to talk about uh bringing the NH to Utah and here is part of that.
Interview from YouTube if you look at the momentum of Utah we've got to put something in front of them that's pretty tough for them to turn down and I think we've done that we've got the youngest demographic in the country the fastest growing State we just were we're in the process of the Olympics which is massive for 34 and hockey um hockey's one of the.
Only winter sports that isn't training there we got a top five tech ecosystem okay so you heard a little bit there and uh of course looking over social media this is what we have going on people are talking about this it's a big talker uh SLC would be a great place for team that's what one person posted and then another person said please.
Don't move them away from downtown if you want to really Branch off and talk about something controversial that would be one because uh you know you have all these other suburbs and whatnot who are like well we have this and we have that and we think you should come over to us because we have more money and we don't feel like subur I know like they they.
Have that haven't heard anything like this vocal fry and everything yeah so there you know I I don't want to you know bring the smoke with that but people are definitely talking about it defitely Smith Entertainment Group specifically mentions the point as an ideal location for a new Arena and once again space you know um and that's the.
Area that's in Draper uh where the old State Prison used to be once again lots of space not narrow Canyons but anyway uh don't build it in there no don't build it don't build it in in sand threx in sand yeah don't don't build it there Salt Lakes downtown Alliance is pushing to keep all pro sports in the city uh but like you said it's space how much.
Can you really build in downtown well but then the argument would also be okay are you really going to move that out there or we could have more development for people who are moving in since we are the fastest growing state in the country and I guess that answers the question of why so much is coming in fast this is this is going to bring all.
The smoke and for people who are I mean it is it's going to bring all the smoke if you want to talk about you know taking something out of downtown then you have to deal with the money that's downtown and what they're going to say and then you're going to have to deal with the developers who are going to be like okay well wait a minute wait a.
Minute wait we're trying to build more houses and then it could get really political what the governor talking about tring incentives if they ask AR get crazy yeah this is going to get interesting y all right of course
I possess Ryan Smith knows that NHL growth in the come future is amazingly no longer going, however he's throwing this in the market in an are trying to salvage the Arizona Coyotes to relocate to Utah. The Coyotes want to figure out their future enviornment plans contained in the subsequent month or two, or they'll want to relocate.The Coyotes are at indicate taking part in in a college enviornment that easiest has a skill of about 5,000 of us. Even though it takes years to originate a brand original hockey explicit enviornment in Utah, it composed makes sense to gallop the Coyotes to Salt Lake as rapidly as most likely. The Delta Center is fundamental from finest for hockey, however can composed seat 12,000 of us for it. Even the Maverik Center could maybe work as a non eternal dwelling for the Coyotes, it's runt by NHL standards however composed has a skill of about 10,000.
Yes please! Salt Lake Metropolis wants an NHL team!
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