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Is Ryan buying the Coyotes to distract us from how bad the Jazz will be next year?

David Stern

David Stern

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I mean the only possible answer to this is yes, and I’m fine with the idea of tanking next year and distracting myself with a new hockey team. I pray that he doesn’t help with any of the necessary rebranding.
 
It has nothing to do with the jazz and everything to do with making a good investment.
 
I hope we can make a significant/competitive move this offseason, but trading Lauri/JC/Sexton for a haul and entering "full-tank" mode for 2025 is exciting in a different way.

Of course, that almost completely depends on whether or not our pick conveys this draft (still hope it does - always hoped it did). 3 picks + ours being virtually guaranteed of top ~6 in next year's draft would be fun. It's not just Cooper Flagg (who is super special), there are a number of top end guys in that draft that I'm excited about.
 
David Stern said:
I mean the only possible answer to this is yes, and I’m fine with the idea of tanking next year and distracting myself with a new hockey team. I pray that he doesn’t help with any of the necessary rebranding.
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What do you mean by necessary rebranding? Are you implying that Salt Lake City Coyotes isnt a credible name?
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
Utah will build a hockey arena, monetize it with an NHL franchise, then use it for their Olympic bid.
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This seems like a very likely plan. Utah has pushed for World Championship events in downhill, biathlon, cross coutry among other winter sports and they seem to have regular world cup events for all those sports. Ski jumping I'm not sure about, but it seems the facilities for everything else have seen some additional investments in them since the 2002 olympics.
 
HermanG said:
This seems like a very likely plan. Utah has pushed for World Championship events in downhill, biathlon, cross coutry among other winter sports and they seem to have regular world cup events for all those sports. Ski jumping I'm not sure about, but it seems the facilities for everything else have seen some additional investments in them since the 2002 olympics.
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Agreed, though I don't consider Ski Jumping an actual sport. Too many arbitrary rules they seem to make up on the fly (no pun intended).

Regardless, it'll be interesting to see how they work with the new arena and what happens with the DC. If they don't tear it down, I suspect they'll use the new digs for Hockey and the DC for Figure Skating and Short Track. I also imagine that's part of the reason for the speed at which this seems to be moving. Bettman can see the advantages of using SLC and the coming Olympics as free advertising for the game, the NHL, and a local franchise.
 
HermanG said:
What do you mean by necessary rebranding? Are you implying that Salt Lake City Coyotes isnt a credible name?
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The deal is basically the current Yotes owner keeps the brand and would get a 5 year exclusive window to bring in an expansion franchise to Phoenix while Smith gets the franchise. The NHL gets about two to three hundred million for laundering the deal.

Though the thing has lost more money than the Hindenberg, the Coyotes are a brand that's there for about 28 years. So there is some recognition, even if it isn't all good. Also, the fact that the franchise has been through a bankruptcy and currently plays in an 5000 seat college arena named after a meme hairstyle isn't great optics.

So their choices are
a.) Move the team to a market that can support it with ownership and local and state governments willing to invest with immediately upgraded facilities and plans already in place and just waiting for an excuse to break ground.
b.) Wait for a new arena that doesn't seem like it'll materialize.
c.) Move it to a different market later while continuing to play in the Mullett and bleed cash.
d.) Contract the franchise.

Seems simple enough to me.
 
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TheStormofWar said:
The deal is basically the current Yotes owner keeps the brand and would get a 5 year exclusive window to bring in an expansion franchise to Phoenix while Smith gets the franchise. The NHL gets about two to three hundred million for laundering the deal.

Though the thing has lost more money than the Hindenberg, the Coyotes are a brand that's there for about 28 years. So there is some recognition there, even if it isn't all good.
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It was more of a humoristic pun about Coyotes being a good brand name for a team based in SLC..
 
TheStormofWar said:
Agreed, though I don't consider Ski Jumping an actual sport. Too many arbitrary rules they seem to make up on the fly (no pun intended).

Regardless, it'll be interesting to see how they work with the new arena and what happens with the DC. If they don't tear it down, I suspect they'll use the new digs for Hockey and the DC for Figure Skating and Short Track. I also imagine that's part of the reason for the speed at which this seems to be moving. Bettman can see the advantages of using SLC and the coming Olympics as free advertising for the game, the NHL, and a local franchise.
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Whether you consider it valid or not, ski jumping hills are used in two different Olympic events (ski jumping and nordic combined) and it requires pretty expensive facilities that are hard to monetize and that environmentalists often harp about.
 
HermanG said:
Whether you consider it valid or not, ski jumping hills are used in two different Olympic events (ski jumping and nordic combined) and it requires pretty expensive facilities that are hard to monetize and that environmentalists often harp about.
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No doubt. I just find it funny that gear that was approved the day before may not be usable the next after. Kind of defeats the purpose when such arbitrary calls are made. If they can't even agree on what gear should be allowed, then I don't think it should qualify as a sport, let alone one in the Olympics.
 
I am hoping Smith takes his passion for ugly uniforms and uses it on the hockey team and lets the Jazz go back to looking like an NBA team. Hopefully his success with building a winning franchise will be as great in the NHL as it has been in the NBA :D
 
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