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{coyotes} 2024 NHL Awards finalists to be announced starting Monday

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The NHL will begin announcing the finalists for its 10 awards April 29.

There will be on announcement per day for 10 straight days. All will be made at 11 a.m. ET.

The first finalists to be announced will be for the Vezina Trophy, which is awarded to the best goalie in the NHL.

On Tuesday, the finalists for the Calder Trophy given to the NHL rookie of the year will be unveiled, followed by those for the Norris Trophy voted as best defenseman Wednesday.

The Masterton Award finalists, which goes the player who "best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey," will be made public Thursday and ones for the Jack Adams Award given to the coach of the year May 3.

On May 4, the finalists for the Lady Byng Trophy given to player "who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey." The following day, finalists for the Selke Trophy, which goes to the best defensive forward, will be revealed.

The six finalists, three in the United States and three in Canada, for the Willie O'Ree Community Hero Award will be announced May 6.

The final two set of finalists for the Hart Trophy, given to the most valuable player in the NHL, and the Ted Lindsay Award, which goes to the most outstanding player as selected by the NHL Players' Association, will be May 7 and 8.

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{coyotes} Players receive warm welcome from 12,400 fans in Utah

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SALT LAKE CITY -- The players had been introduced to Utah. They'd been greeted by hundreds of youth hockey players at the airport; toured Delta Center and Utah Jazz headquarters; and come back to the arena to find about 12,400 people packed inside for a welcome event.

Now they introduced themselves as Utah's new NHL team. On stage before a raucous crowd Wednesday, they were supposed to state their names, positions and hometowns one by one. But they were so emotional, so inspired, they couldn't help but fire up the fans further.

Clayton Keller grabbed the mic and yelled, "Utah! How we doin'?" Lawson Crouse took it and yelled, "Let's make some more noise!" Nick Bjugstad yelled, "Let's go!" Liam O'Brien told the fans they could call him "Spicy Tuna," and Jack McBain led a "Spicy Tuna" chant.

"This is honestly one of the coolest experiences we've all had as hockey players," Alex Kerfoot told the crowd.

The best moments from Utah's welcome to the NHL

A week ago, the Arizona Coyotes finished their season. The next day, the NHL Board of Governors voted to establish a new team in Utah, which would acquire the Coyotes hockey assets. The players had mixed emotions, unsure of their future.

Utah wanted to give them a look at their new home and arranged a series of events.

Suddenly, they could be excited about where they were headed. Utah has 29,000 season-ticket deposits and counting.

"I know what it's like for them and what they're feeling when they see you and they see you cheer like that," general manager Bill Armstrong told the crowd. "You have no idea what that means to us, to be loved."

NHL.com followed along as the executives, coaches, players, staff and their families visited Utah on Wednesday:

10:27 a.m. MT

The Delta plane stopped on the tarmac, and hundreds of youth hockey players, parents and coaches waited in the hangar holding homemade signs. "WELCOME TO UTAH!" "UTAH [HEARTS] HOCKEY!" "WELCOME HOME!" One sign had a map of Utah, a star for Salt Lake City and directions: "You are here."

With music rocking in the background, the kids chanted: "Let's go, Utah! Let's go!" The players disembarked in black hoodies with the NHL shield and "UTAH EST. 2024." As they walked down the steps, they took in the scene and broke into smiles.

"I had tears coming down my face," Armstrong said.

The scene sent a message.

"I think just to really let them know that we're really excited about this, that we wanted an NHL team for a long time, that they're going to have a lot of support and have a lot of fans here," said Bobbi Jaramillo, who brought her 10-year-old daughter, Addison, a left wing for the Davis County Wind. "I think this is a great place for hockey to grow."

The players took their time and signed autographs. Sometimes it was so wholesome it hurt. Josh Brown introduced himself to kids by saying simply, "I'm Josh. Josh Brown." Liam Cevallos, a 10-year-old who plays at the Utah Olympic Oval, held a sign that said, "ONE DAY I WILL BE LIKE YOU."

"We're super excited to be here," Keller said. "Stepping off the plane was unbelievable."

1:23 p.m. MT

The players gathered in a hallway at Delta Center, standing in front of a huge sign that said, "NHL IN UTAH." Ryan and Ashley Smith own Utah's NHL and NBA teams, which will share the arena. Jazz president Jim Olson gave a guided tour.

"This is your home," Olson told the players.

They walked down the hallway, turned the corner and walked onto the ice. The arena will host 16,200 for hockey next season, with 12,000 unobstructed seats, but it will be renovated over two or three years to host more than 17,000 for hockey.

"My first impression when I walk in the building is being sad to think I have to wait four, five months to get back," coach Andre Tourigny said. "I cannot wait to get on the ice. I think it's exciting to have an opportunity to build something with our fans."

As Olson spoke, the players looked up at the steeply pitched seats.

"We want to rev it up in here," Armstrong said. "We want to become the loudest building in the NHL in here. The building gives us a chance. How it's built, how steep it is, you couldn't design a better building for us."

Olson took the players into the seats so they could see the fans' view for themselves. He took them in a lounge area and the Jazz locker room, so they could see the level of amenities they will have when their spaces are constructed in the offseason.

In the Jazz locker room, with the players standing in a semicircle, he shared two of Smith Entertainment Group's company values: "one team" and "all in." He emphasized that they are all in this together, and the organization is all in on hockey.

"We loved that," Armstrong said. "That was a great moment for us. It was all about getting it done."

3:16 p.m. MT

The players walked onto the practice court at Zions Bank Basketball Campus not far from downtown. With a basketball under his arm, Ryan Smith greeted them like buddies with handshakes and hugs, then introduced them to Jazz coach Will Hardy.

"There's no better person than Ryan to address what's next," Hardy told the players. "You guys are coming to a market that really, really cares about their teams."

Utah needs to build a permanent hockey training facility, but Ryan Smith told the players, "This will give you an idea of what this can, or will, look like."

They walked through the kitchen, where NHL Network was on television showing social media posts of their reception at the airport earlier. They saw the hydrotherapy area, the medical area, the weight room.

"It's incredible what they've done, and we're looking forward to the day that that's all finished for us," Armstrong said.

Finally, the players had a free moment. They picked up some basketballs and began shooting around, smiling, laughing.

"Everything has been amazing, first class, with a lot of enthusiasm," Tourigny said. "It made us feel at home already. We already want to fight for Utah. I'm blown away right now."

Tourigny said that even though the best part was still yet to come.

5:33 p.m. MT

The players walked into the Delta Center dressed in suits, feeling like superstars. If you looked closely, you could see them failing to hide smiles as they walked onto the ice and up the middle surrounded by people holding up their phones to record the moment. 

The lights were low, the spotlights shining. The music was pumping, the crowd buzzing. Most of the fans had been there at least an hour already, cheering and chanting. First, it was a deafening "Utah!" Then it was, "Let's go, Utah!" Hundreds of fans, if not thousands, were still outside, unable to get in before the organizers had to cut it off.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox made the fans promise to come back for the parade when the team wins the Stanley Cup. Ashley Smith told the crowd, "We're super passionate about Utah, and this is why." Ryan Smith said, "I'll tell you one thing: Utah shows up. … This is just the beginning."

Armstrong said, "We're so looking forward to this being the loudest building in the NHL." The fans responded by chanting rapidly, "Utah! Utah! Utah!" Touringy said, "We cannot wait to feed off your energy next year."

The players introduced themselves. Finally, Bjugstad, Crouse and Keller spoke.

"It's been very special," Crouse told the crowd. "Ever since that plane touched down, we felt nothing but love and support from you guys. We're very grateful for you guys. We can't wait to get on the ice."

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{coyotes} Utah owner Ryan Smith divulges name and uniform plans

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Utah's NHL team will use a March Madness-style bracket to determine a name and share some uniform similarities with the NBA's Jazz.

Those were two of the key takeaways of an interview with Utah co-owner Ryan Smith on the 32 Thoughts podcast with Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek on Tuesday.

"The goal is we want it to be by Utah, for Utah, and let our fans and our people and our players take part in creating that," said Smith, whose purchase of the Arizona Coyotes was confirmed last week.

Smith, who also owns the Jazz with his wife, Ashley, said he envisions some shared uniform concepts between the teams.

"If you look at the mountains on the (Jazz) jersey, I think that kind of breeds a little bit of a colour palette naturally, of fresh ice, the whole setup, blue skies, you see that," he said. "In a dream scenario, there's a Venn diagram where you've got the Jazz and this team ... where things could kind of overlap.

"You've got to leave a little room for teams to get out and do special stuff that's not going to be part of that diagram," he added. "But I think there can be a really cool symmetry and I don't think it has to just be like Pittsburgh or everything else where everything's the exact same colour."

As for a nickname, fans are going to have a say with a bracket, Smith said.

"We have like six or eight names that seem to be the ones," he said. "We've engaged Qualtrics (founded by Smith and partners) to do it from a survey standpoints and grab all the feedback and run the brackets so it's right."

Several names have been rumoured, including Blizzard, Venom, Black Diamonds, Yetis and Golden Eagles.

"I have my opinion but this is part of the reason why I want to do it with the fans is because unfortunately, or fortunately, my opinion weighs pretty heavily here," Smith said. "That's not what we're trying to do. I truly want this fanbase to be able to name it."

When asked to name most interesting text he had received since buying the Coyotes, Smith wasn't ready to point to just one person.

But he did mention he got messages from many Canadian basketball players previously on the Jazz, including current Toronto Raptors centre Kelly Olynyk, as well as another notable hoops figure.

"Charles Barkley texting, saying, 'Hey, if you need a goalie, I'm available on the cheap,'" Smith said. "I thought that was pretty good."

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{coyotes} Bettman reaffirms NHL’s commitment to Phoenix market

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PHOENIX -- NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman strongly reaffirmed the League's commitment to returning to the Phoenix market, saying Friday the Arizona Coyotes franchise can be reactivated in less than five years if there is steady progress toward building a new arena.

Before flying to Salt Lake City to formally introduce Utah to NHL hockey, Bettman promised that the NHL will be back in Arizona as quickly as a new arena is constructed.

"I'd like to say as Gen. (Douglas) MacArthur did, we shall return," Bettman said.

The NHL Board of Governors voted Thursday to establish an NHL team in Utah, a process that wasn't finalized until 2 a.m. that day, according to Commissioner Bettman and Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo. The team purchased the contracts of Coyotes executives, coaches and players, and the Arizona franchise became inactive. 

The Coyotes played the past two seasons in 4,600-seat Mullett Arena on the Arizona State University campus.

The Commissioner said he understands the disappointment, heartbreak and anger than longtime Coyotes fans feel at losing their team, perhaps temporarily, but emphasized the League and Meruelo agreed it wasn't feasible to continue to play in what the commissioner said "was not a major league facility" for another three to five seasons.

The timetable for a new Arizona arena was pushed back last year when voters did not approve a proposed Tempe Sports and Entertainment district, which would have been privately funded.

"Days like today are difficult," Commissioner Bettman said. "They're sad, and I sympathize with and understand and feel sorry about what the fans are the Coyotes are going through. And I respect that. And I feel badly about that. But I think if you look back from a League perspective over the last almost three decades, the NHL support for hockey in the desert has been unwavering, to say the least. … This is a place where we believe hockey works.

 "The League hasn't abandoned this market or the fans.

Meruelo said deactivating the franchise "was the most painful decision in my life, in my 40 years of business.

"My family and I are devastated, as are our fans. We share your disappointment and your heartbreak," he said. "But it simply wasn't fair to continue to have our players and coaches spend several more years playing in an arena that is not an NHL facility."

In the first step toward bringing the NHL back to Arizona, Meruelo will bid June 27 on a nearly 100-acre plot of land in north Phoenix near Scottsdale on which he intends to build a 17,000-seat arena and entertainment district.

If Meruelo wins the auction and is able to start construction, Commissioner Bettman said the NHL could return sooner than the five-year window the Board of Governors gave Meruelo to reactivate the Coyotes.

"We believe this is the right way to proceed so that we can ultimately have hockey in the desert where I believe it can not just survive, but thrive," the Commissioner said.

The NHL needs 18 months' notice that the arena will be completed in order to begin the process of returning the Coyotes to an active franchise, Bettman said.

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{coyotes} Coyotes’ move to Salt Lake City elicits opposing responses in 2 cities

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PHOENIX (AP) — NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman sat next to the former Arizona Coyotes owner in a downtown Phoenix hotel meeting room, trying to put a positive spin on the funeral for a franchise.

Late Friday afternoon, Bettman will sit next to the new Coyotes owner in Salt Lake City to bask in the excitement of the league's newest city and a fan base that had been itching for another team to join the NBA's Utah Jazz.

One day, two drastically different news conferences for the same hockey team.

"If you look back from the perspective over the last three decades, the NHL support for hockey in Arizona has been unwavering, to say the least," Bettman said Friday in Phoenix. "And for anybody who's been on that journey with us, there have been countless times when we could have made another decision and we didn't. And so I hope everybody understands that this is a place that we believe hockey works."

But only under the right circumstances.

Hockey worked in the desert for 27 years, albeit with some major potholes along the way.

In the Coyotes' 28th year since moving from Winnipeg, those ruts derailed the franchise and sent it to Utah.

His hand forced by self-inflicted and out-of-his-control circumstances, Alex Meruelo sold the Coyotes to the Smith Entertainment Group on Thursday, a deal approved unanimously by the NHL Board of Governors. The $1.2 billion deal gives SEG owner Ryan Smith control of the franchise's hockey operations, while Meruelo will keep the name and maintain business operations as he tries to build a long-awaited new hockey arena in Arizona.

The deal elicited opposite responses in two states.

Utah fans have been expectedly excited, snapping up 11,000 season ticket deposits in the first few hours after the sale. Bettman said that number had risen to 20,000 by Friday.

The yet-to-be-named team will already have a solid foundation in place, one poured by Coyotes general manager Bill Armstrong through an aggressive rebuild started three years ago. The team has a talented core, players like Clayton Keller, Logan Cooley and Dylan Guenther, pushing to get the franchise back to the playoffs — outside of the 2020 pandemic bubble — for the first time since the 2012 Western Conference Finals.

Arizona fans were decidedly dejected and accusatory, claiming Meruelo and the rest of the Coyotes' management were deceitful about the team's yearly proclamations that it will remain in Arizona for the long haul.

The flickering light down at the end of the long tunnel is a promise the Coyotes franchise will be "reactivated" if a new arena is built within five years. Meruelo's group has its sights set on a June land auction for a tract of land in north Phoenix valued at $68.5 million, one they hope to develop into an entertainment district that will include a new arena.

"You have my commitment to do everything in my power to keep the Coyotes in the Valley. one of the few communities in the country with four professional sports teams," Meruelo said. "This is a global sports market."

One without a hockey team for the foreseeable future.

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{coyotes} Ingram ‘excited’ about playing for new Utah NHL team next season

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The past two years, Connor Ingram has stopped in Utah on his way from Saskatchewan to Arizona for the start of the NHL season. Next season, the goalie can stop right there.

The NHL Board of Governors voted Thursday to establish an NHL team in Utah, and the team purchased the contracts of the Arizona Coyotes executives, coaches and players. The Arizona franchise became inactive. Owner Alex Meruelo can reactivate it if he builds a suitable arena within five years.

Utah will play at Delta Center in Salt Lake City.

"I think we're all excited to go," Ingram said. "I mean, it's a place that …"

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He paused for a moment.

"I'm not going to lie to you," he continued. "I really like Salt Lake City. We stop every year on the drive in. I had an Airbnb booked in Sundance for the drive home. I'm excited for Salt Lake City. I will miss Arizona, but I think if you're going to move, it's a good place to go."

The players had mixed emotions as they met at the Coyotes practice facility Thursday, hours after defeating the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 at Mullett Arena on Wednesday in the season finale.

Sadness. Uncertainty. Excitement.

Even though this isn't technically a relocation, it feels like it.

"I can't speak for everyone, but most of us are just kind of soaking this in," Ingram said. "It's a different thing that's going on here. I mean, how many guys can say they moved with an NHL franchise? It's uncharted waters for a lot of us, and I think we're just trying to figure it out as we go."

Ingram pointed out everyone has individual circumstances.

Arizona is special to him. He got engaged here and established himself as an NHL player here. His parents and in-laws live here now, and he has no doubt he will come back here in the future.

Utah is foreign to him, despite his stopovers. He doesn't know where to live, where the practice facility will be, how it's going to work.

At the same time, the 27-year-old isn't as tied down as others are, and he's used to bouncing around, having played for multiple teams in multiple leagues in his career. He isn't a staff member, either.

"For guys like me, it's exciting -- not to leave Arizona, but just to go somewhere new and see it," he said. "It's easy. I don't own a house here. I don't have children. Guys like me, I'm used to it.

"But it's the people with families, the guys changing schools for kids, the staff that need to buy houses and do all those things. This isn't about a hockey team moving. This is people's lives we're uprooting here, and I think people need to remember that.

"There's a lot that goes on, and a lot of these people that don't get the credit they deserve are going to have to do a lot to make this work. I think those people deserve some recognition. It's easy for guys like me, but there's people that it's harder on, no doubt about it."

You never know how things will turn out.

Shane Doan grew up in Halkirk, Alberta, and played junior hockey in Kamloops, British Columbia. When he was 19, he was a rookie with the original Winnipeg Jets.

Then they moved to a new NHL market, and so did he.

The forward spent the next 18 seasons with the team -- known as the Phoenix Coyotes from 1996-2014 and the Arizona Coyotes afterward -- building a career and a life. He ended up retiring as the franchise's all-time leader in games played (1,540), goals (402), assists (570) and points (972).

Josh Doan, his son, grew up in Arizona. The 22-year-old came up from Tuscon of the American Hockey League and played 11 games for the Coyotes this season, putting up nine points (five goals, four assists) and realizing a dream.

"To wear the Coyotes logo and play a real game with that jersey is something that I'll take with me forever and kind of build off of," he said. "But it's a long way to go now with everything and a long offseason."

Now the executives, coaches and players are moving to a new NHL market, and so will he if he makes the NHL roster.

Maybe he can build a career and a life in Utah at least a little like his dad did in Arizona.

"I'm looking forward to whatever kind of comes my way and the start," he said. "Obviously, they want to do something big there, and there's a plan already set up, and the people there are excited.

"So, if we weren't looking at it positive, then it's going to be a long offseason, a long year. I've talked to my dad about that and how his life was flipped upside down, and Arizona ended up being place he calls home and still does. There's obviously a side of it where you have to kind of take that look at it."

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{coyotes} NHL team moving from Arizona to Salt Lake City will have a name starting with Utah

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The NHL team moving from Arizona to Salt Lake City will be known as Utah, at least initially, until a long-term name is determined.

"We'll start with Utah on the jersey and we'll figure out the logo and everything else and what it is that we are," new owner Ryan Smith told The Associated Press. "We're going to be Utah either way. We have the first part of the name. We don't have the last."

Smith Entertainment Group, which bought the franchise formerly known as the Coyotes in a deal unanimously approved Thursday by the league's Board of Governors, has already contracted ad agency Doubleday & Cartwright for rebranding efforts. Former owner Alex Meruelo keeps the Coyotes name and has the chance to reactivate the franchise if he's able to build an arena.

The short timeline of relocating the club could mean it has a placeholder name for the first season, like the Professional Women's Hockey League did for year one or Washington's NFL team had in 2020 and '21 before becoming the Commanders.

"It'll be Utah something, obviously," Smith said. "It's really important that we're not saying, 'Hey, this has to be ready by the fall,' especially when it's going to be Utah something. I think both the league feels better and we feel better to just run the process and then we'll drop it when we drop it."

While working on that process, Smith's first priority is physically moving players and staff to Utah and getting them set up in the state.

"There's a good roster and a lot of young talent and we've got to onboard those people into Smith Entertainment Group and show them what that means and what that's like," Smith said. "I think that's a good opportunity for us and introduce them to the state of Utah and also bring the community together to receive them."

Then it'll be "full speed ahead" with the infrastructure, including potential renovations to Delta Center, home of the NBA's Utah Jazz also owned by SEG, which has 12,000 unobstructed view seats for hockey. The plan is to expand that number to roughly 17,500.

"We want to actually use our arena and really spend time creating the best dual-sport arena that exists out there because we want to keep people as close as we possibly can or as vertical as we possibly can to watch both games," Smith said. "It's super fun and challenging, but we're going to do it."

It's also a challenge to make Utah a hockey market, though 17 sheets of ice already in place and a youth hockey program give ownership a head start. Smith plans to build more rinks to make it easier for people of all ages to play the sport.

Former NHL player Ken Sabourin, who played in the minors for the Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the International Hockey League from 1987-91 and then again in '92-93, raves about the city but thinks success will be determined by how the team plays.

"If they put a winning product out there, it's going to help, obviously, and maybe (Smith's group is) dedicated to do that," Sabourin said Thursday. "It's a good hockey market, it's a good sports market — there's no doubt about it. I think they have the fans. It's whether they'll come out or not. They'll watch it for sure. It'll be not a problem on TV. The first year in the building I'm sure it won't be an issue no matter how good they are."

Smith, who can skate a little and played mostly roller hockey, isn't worried about that. He points to the sold out NCAA Tournament men's basketball games at Delta Center as evidence that fans will fill the building to watch NHL hockey.

"The one thing I do know about Utah is people show up," he said. "It's just different here. We've got 291 straight sellout games at the Delta Center (for the Jazz). I think every concert that's come to town has sold out. It's just what we do. We show up, and I have a lot of faith in the people in Utah."

That faith was rewarded right away, as Smith said the organization had received 6,000 season-ticket deposits in two hours after the sale was announced.

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{coyotes} Coyotes officially leaving Arizona for Salt Lake City following approval of sale to Utah Jazz owners

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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes are officially headed to Salt Lake City.

The NHL Board of Governors voted unanimously Thursday to approve a $1.2 billion sale from Alex Meruelo to Utah Jazz owners Ryan and Ashley Smith, clearing the way for the franchise's move to Utah next season.

The deal includes a provision for Arizona to get an expansion team if a new arena is built within the next five years. The deal will be facilitated through the NHL, with $200 million going to league owners as a relocation fee.

"We expressed our interest publicly with the NHL," Ryan Smith told The Associated Press. "It's probably been two years where we've said, 'Hey, look, we really believe Utah can be an incredible hockey town.' You look at all the demographics, we were just talking about the Olympics and you think about the Olympics coming back. It all kind of made sense."

Smith will take over the franchise's hockey operations and Meruelo will maintain his business operations in Arizona in an effort to secure and develop a tract of land for a new arena in north Phoenix.

Meruelo also retains ownership of the Tucson Roadrunners, the franchise's AHL affiliate, and hopes to move them to Mullett Arena, the Coyotes' temporary home shared with Arizona State University the past two seasons. He plans to pay back the $1 billion once an expansion team is approved.

"The NHL's belief in Arizona has never wavered," NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement. "We thank Alex Meruelo for his commitment to the franchise and Arizona, and we fully support his ongoing efforts to secure a new home in the desert for the Coyotes. We also want to acknowledge the loyal hockey fans of Arizona, who have supported their team with dedication for nearly three decades while growing the game."

Meruelo will retain the Coyotes' name, logo and trademark, so Smith's group will have to rename the team. The team will play at Delta Center, home of the Jazz, until a new arena can be built.

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"We'll start with Utah on the jersey and we'll figure out the logo and everything else, and what it is that we are, but that's a one-way door," Smith said. "You've got to do it once. And with this timeline, I think both the league feels better and we feel better to just run the process and then we'll drop it when we drop it."

The sale ends the Coyotes' long-running bid to find a permanent home.

The franchise shared an arena with the NBA's Phoenix Suns after relocating from Winnipeg, moved to Glendale and ended up at Mullett Arena when the city of Glendale backed out of a lease agreement.

Meruelo had been adamant about not wanting to sell the team despite receiving numerous offers since buying the team in 2019. When an auction for the land in north Phoenix got pushed back to June, the Coyotes had no guarantee a deal for a new arena would go through.

With the NHL and players' association hesitant for the Coyotes to play at 5,000-seat Mullett Arena for a third season, Meruelo opted to sell the team, his focus shifting to the new arena and expansion team.

"I agree with Commissioner Gary Bettman and the National Hockey League, that it is simply unfair to continue to have our players, coaches, hockey front office, and the NHL teams they compete against, spend several more years playing in an arena that is not suited for NHL hockey," Meruelo said in a statement. "But this is not the end for NHL hockey in Arizona. I have negotiated the right to reactivate the team within the next five years, and have retained ownership of the beloved Coyotes name, brand and logo. I remain committed to this community and to building a first-class sports arena and entertainment district without seeking financial support from the public."

The Coyotes played their final game in Arizona on Wednesday night, a 5-2 win over the playoff-bound Edmonton Oilers. The players celebrated on the ice with team personnel and a few handed their sticks over the glass to fans, who chanted "We love you Coy-otes!"

"It's tough to take it all in," Coyotes rookie forward Logan Cooley said. "A lot of noise, a lot of personal stuff and obviously the organization, you hear you're going one spot then you're going to the next spot. We've done a good job in this locker room focusing on keeping out the noise and getting better as a team, striving to be the team we want to be one day."

Officials from Salt Lake City and the city's 2034 Olympic bid supported Smith's attempt to bring hockey to Utah, giving the state two major professional franchises.

"This announcement is about more than bringing an NHL team to Salt Lake City — it's a defining moment in our trajectory, becoming a catalyst for a positive vision that integrates community, connection, and more possibilities for families, residents, and visitors to experience our capital city," Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall said in a statement. "I'm thankful for the close partnership with Ryan & Ashley Smith, and the entire SEG team. This is the beginning of a new era that will generate exciting opportunities for our communities, amplify pride and unlock new potential in our downtown core."

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