Utah Hockey Club will be the name of the NHL team in Salt Lake City for its inaugural season

Stephen Whyno, Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Hockey Club will beryllium nan sanction of nan NHL squad playing its games successful Salt Lake City opening this fall, pinch a semipermanent personality still to come.

Smith Entertainment Group announced nan move Thursday and unveiled nan first logos and jerseys that will beryllium utilized successful 2024-25 successful performance pinch nan $1.2 cardinal waste closing. Ryan Smith’s company, which besides owns nan NBA’s Utah Jazz, bought nan squad formerly known arsenic nan Arizona Coyotes successful April.

“Today is simply a monumental time for nan authorities of Utah arsenic we officially adjacent connected nan constitution of a caller NHL franchise,” Smith said. “The NHL has been unthinkable to activity pinch passim this process, providing america pinch invaluable guidance and support. We person a ton of activity to do — training campy starts successful little than 100 days — and could not beryllium much excited astir what’s to come.”

Commissioner Gary Bettman connected behalf of nan Board of Governors said he was delighted to invited Utah to nan league.

“Congratulations to Ryan and Ashley Smith, their full organization, nan authorities of Utah and nan fans arsenic nan nine continues its breathtaking march toward puck driblet successful October,” Bettman said.

The puck drops successful October, but location is nary timeline connected erstwhile imperishable branding and logos will beryllium revealed.

After 20 first options, nan six finalists are Blizzard, Mammoth, Outlaws, Venom, Yeti and keeping nan sanction Utah Hockey Club, aliases Utah HC. Fan voting runs done June 20.

One changeless will beryllium nan colour strategy of ray blue, achromatic and achromatic that is expected to last. It was chosen to complement nan Jazz’s “Mountain Basketball” purple. The lucky squad is calling them upland bluish to correspond nan entity and nan state’s wintertime sports history, stone achromatic for nan acheronian of nighttime and volcanic stone successful nan deserts and brackish achromatic for snowfall and celebrated brackish flats.

The location achromatic and roadworthy achromatic jerseys characteristic UTAH diagonally down from near to right. They are group to make their first applicable in-person debut later this period astatine nan upcoming NHL draught astatine nan Sphere successful Las Vegas erstwhile players selected by nan squad put them on.

The Utah Hockey Club will play successful downtown Salt Lake City astatine Delta Center, a hoops arena that will request renovations successful nan coming years to summation nan capacity of seats pinch an unobstructed position of nan ice. Bettman astatine his pre-Stanley Cup Final news convention said that was a short-term rumor that will beryllium corrected, and he applauded nan caller owners by saying they are “drinking from a firehose, and they’re doing it unbelievably well.”

“We’re excited astir everything that Ryan and his statement are doing to invited nan players and invited NHL lucky and present it into Utah,” Bettman said June 8 successful Sunrise, Florida. “I deliberation things are going moreover amended than we could person hoped based connected nan short timeframe that they’ve had to activity with.”