When I think of Milwaukee and hockey it makes me think of the show Happy Days, I remember a couple of episodes where Richie was going out to play hockey.

You already have the Admirlas, get in line!

As a Wisconsinite I want this so bad too, but I think we will have to wait our turn for a bit longer. Milwaukee is a super realistic option, but I think Bettman would rather tap into bigger markets like Utah, Houston and Atlanta.

Praying for a Milwaukee team. Makes so much sense

Milwaukee Dahmers

We lost the Nordiques and original Jets for a lot less and a lot more quickly.

@@oilersridersbluejays The NHL did sweet fuck all to try and help the Nordiques and Jets back then.

I don't know about that, how many first overall picks have the Oilers had?

@@mikaeljohansson-mj13bc exactly nhl gifted them 1st overall picks until the Oilers became relevant.

@@mikaeljohansson-mj13bc what does that have to do with anything

Atlanta will NEVER get another team! This is hockey, not baseball! You don’t get three strikes!

@@bobbitchin781The Thrashers failed because of poor management, not the fans

​@@DingoOverlordgood fans can carry a club on their backs even with bad management

The Bettmanized NHL will put a team on the planet Venus before it puts one in Quebec City.

@@FischerFanand I can’t understand why. A Quebec City team would be profitable. How much is the Molson family paying to prevent it? I’m a Habs fan, and I’d love to see QC get a team back.

yeah so they prob gone

Losing all the time should hurt more.

Not selling out unless a Canadian team is playing there should hurt. The city doesn’t want hockey, it’s obvious.

@@oilersridersbluejaysthe tickets cheapest is like $180 from what I’ve seen, trust if I was rich I’d be there along with other fans

@@Boyo-xe5fp eh 🤷‍♀️ We have a good young team was excited for them to develop

@@oilersridersbluejays I’m not even from Arizona, im not even from North America and also this is awkward… because I’m also an oilers fan…

Yup. I feel with good ownership the coyotes could’ve been similar to Carolina or Florida. Poor ownership screwed over that fanbase.

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Add it to the pile!

People hated when Bettman didn't fight harder for Winnipeg. He has actually said that's his biggest regret. Now he has fought tooth and nail to keep another team from relocating and people hate him for that too. It's almost like people just like to complain or something. 🙄

Yep, like Atlanta getting a team twice :) Maybe the 3rd time will be the charm. Atlanta is making a third bid to land an NHL team. Carter announced Tuesday, March 12, 2024, he's heading a group that made a formal request to the league to begin the process of adding an expansion team in metro

@@Statsy10 On that note, his biggest regret SHOULD BE coming out of the 1994-95 lockout without a salary cap. Winnipeg's owner at the time, Barry Shenkarow, was one of the last owners fighting for a salary cap. When they failed to bring salaries under control, it was the death knell for three teams and could've easily been for more of them. This is why, a decade later, Bettman knew they had to get a cap in place. Nearly two-thirds of the League's teams were losing money and teams like Buffalo could easily have folded. Now that Winnipeg has a billionaire owner, all is stable in the market. One may ask where this group was in 1995, but the reality is they were wise to get out of the League until it found a way to stabilize itself economically.

@@trvman1 Oh, don't worry. Atlanta will get another team....because the NHL wants the market that desperately. Vice versa, that's not the case. The reaction to the loss of the Thrashers was largely ambivalence.

More likely Colorado vs Salt Lake City. Both are in the Central. Both are very close to one another. Both are mountain adjacent towns. A lot of similarities and it'd just be more conducive than Vegas/SLC.

@@SolitarySilenced They also have the Nuggets-Jazz rivalry though it is not like it was in the 80s and 90s.

Don't expect Salt Lake to be a viable market, even with a minor league team here since the 70's they don't bring in a lot of fans. Ryan Smith is just interested in getting a new arena built then he can move the Jazz there.

The Coyotes are presently worth $US 0.5 billion as per Forbes; dead last not only in the NHL, but also among the 124 Big Four sports franchises in North America. Selling this team to Ryan Smith and moving it to SLC will double, and possibly triple, the value of the franchise. Oh, the team will also make money in SLC.

@@FischerFan The team will make money in SLC? That's a laugh. 😄More like Ryan Smith will make money. He's sure conned everyone.

Agree, that's a perfect number. All that 90's expansion watered down the league back then, even with the European players hopping the pond.

You obviously don't live in Phoenix, the current arena is charging twice the price and nobody wants to pay that much for seats in a college arena. This city loves the Coyotes but they're tired of all the crap that's going on.

@@markbarry9945 I do not live there, from what I have seen the charges are ridiculous. It'll only get worse in a larger NHL rink, so who's to say people actually attend at a HIGHER price than what is currently being offered

Have you ever seen a whit out game

@@emustard-3 Yes. Winnipeg does it consistently. The Yotes did it when they were good.

​​@@markbarry9945What's going on down there? Politics? Tempe vote failing made zero sense to me. The Scottsdale mayor mouthing off against the current land deal seemed petty to me. I'm here in Vegas, however, I would like to see the Coyotes stay in Phoenix area.

I think they’d pluralize it with zz (Yetizz) to tie into the Jazz and IHL team Grizzlies

​@@jeremyhelquistNo that's a dumb name. Grizzlies are an ECHL team, IHL league is gone

Utah-Crocodilezz,,,,,Salt-Lake-Sniperzz......Utah-Stallionzz.....Utah-Moonwalkerzz

@@QuentinDude Lame dude

@@rhyta5042 did-i-ask-for-your-opinion-Diarrhyta5042?

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@@mrgreekgm754 Sadly I agree

Nah, I don't see the Kachina look working in Mormonland.

gotta admit thats...... pretty awful 😂😂😂

Salt Lake Lakers better, no city

Maybe they could? You've got the Texas Rangers in baseball and the NY Rangers in hockey. The NBA Lakers logo design would be trademarked but I can't see the Laker name itself being off limits.

NY/Winnipeg Jets, LA/Sacramento Kings, NY/SF Giants, Carolina/Florida Panthers, am I missing any others?

Only reason the Lakers are called that is because they used to be in Minneapolis.

Salt Lake Serpents is the only option.

He'll never realize that Jerry Moyes was right.

Please

God I wish. If they did, they need to be called the Nordiques and have the exact same logo and jersey, don’t screw it up like Jets 2.0 did. But, Quebec City probably won’t get a team in the near future. Our economy and dollar is absolute shit and we need an election and the Liberals voted out for our economy and dollar to improve at all. Not trying to be political, just calling it as it is.

Honest Question: Is there anyone in Quebec rich enough to buy and run a team there?

​@@mrquirky3626I hâte quebec as a whole. But most def there is people rich enough. The question is who is willing to. That question is tough. I think Montréal should relocate to Québec if anything players would have a better quality of life. Montréal the city sucks for many reasons.

​@@mrquirky3626Québec city is beautiful but way more affordable than Montréal too

Salt Lake City Super Platinum Dragons

Wait till the Devils play in Utah.

Woohoo

Utah Swarm Its the beehive state afterall.

@@maxpowr90 Just think if Georgia got a team.

That's what New Orleans named their football team. They eventually launched the tradition of fans wearing paper bags to conceal their identities while attending their team's home games!

Probably in the second hand market but it will all probably go on clearance sale

You have a blessed day sir

@@jeremy1234823 Merci, toi aussi.

His ego has cost them in the tens of millions, possibly hundreds.

Why does he look like the avatar of an anti Soviet propaganda poster?

​@@daddius😂😂😂😂😂

He's cost the NHL billions and these expansions haven't helped. This also hurts Canadian teams and their chances of winning. Canada the country that created hockey has 7 teams and the US has over 20. And this all happened under Bettman.

It's not Bettman's folly. It's the NHL ownership group's decisions. Bettman's just their well paid mouthpiece & he does his job well drawing anger from the fans away from the greedy NHL ownership group.

Couldn't agree more

lol

No chance. They want to keep this team in the west to keep the conferences balanced plus Quebec City is too small, smaller then even Winnipeg. The problem isn't the fan support. The problem is external corporate dollars. Where is that going to come from to support Quebec?

​@@jasontroia3434 Quebecor would likely be the majority owner. We already have an 18k seats arena named after their cable company (Videotron, Bell's direct competition in the telecom game in the province of Quebec). Furthermore, it would get sold out every night. Anyone saying otherwise is just being dishonest. The price may be steep, but that's basically guaranteed revenue.

​@@jasontroia3434 the simple fact that some people use the divisions as an argument proves that some people are willing to find any excuse to not want the Nordiques to come back. Detroit can easily be sent back to the central division if we really want a team in QC.

pov ur every yotes player

Utah Kokopelli

I'm on board with the deer/elk names, Elk, Stags, etc. or they could keep the Coyote name and change the branding and color scheme, which is fine by me as well.

@@sanjuyon_ I love the sound of “Salt Lake Stags” I don’t think they will keep the coyote name because the owner wants to get a new team if he wins the bid and basically just restart and wants to name them the coyotes.. I would love to keep the coyote name tho

The NHL doesn't just give franchises away. There needs to actually be a person or corporation in Houston with the billion dollars to buy and run one. Does Houston have that?

@@mrquirky3626actually they do have one! The owner of the Houston Rockets! He has had several meetings with the NHL commissioner. If the NHL really wants to major market they would go to Houston. SLC barely has a population of 2 million for the whole metro area where Houston has over 7 million with a lot of corporate support.

Dallas already has a team

@@valitsemllaluokanavahyvaks3556who is talking about Dallas? We are talking about Houston!

Bettman would chose Houston over Quebec city any day tho. The fact we're even talking about SLC is just salt in the wound at this point.

Not as heartbreaking for the hockey passionate Winnipeg Jets supporters back twenty years ago

Seattle are doing fine.

Salt Lake City already has minor league baseball called the Bees, which were formerly known as the Stingers, so based on that, I don't think they'd go for that name

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Utah Yotes sounds nice actually

@@Zac15 0% chance do your research!

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