The did more than carve out a place in this city.

They became a Salt Lake City institution, continuing to draw sellout crowds long after Stockton-to-Malone eventually turned into a rebuilding team that very well could be going on year three of missing the playoffs.

Turns out there is room for more than one major professional team in town.

The arrival of the team sparked enormous interest with more than 34,000 season-ticket deposits made in the first 48 hours after becoming available. And only 8% of those deposits for the also were Jazz season-ticket holders, which means even more customers for Ryan and Ashley Smith, who own both teams.

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The Jazz, who moved to Salt Lake in 1979 after five years in New Orleans, created fans for the future by developing them when they were young through Junior Jazz. Barney said it香蕉视频直播檚 the nation香蕉视频直播檚 largest youth basketball program, and the idea is to create a similar legacy in hockey.

But the Utah Hockey Club plans to buttress existing programs rather than dictate the path of youth programs. The Utah Outliers junior team won championships the past three years and plans to expand its 17- to 20-year-old program with younger teams as it moves into a new 2,000-seat facility in Park City, Utah.

Having the , Outliers general manager and coach Paul Taylor hopes, will only increase interest among potential younger players.

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Utah games will be televised over the air and available through a streaming service that also includes behind-the-scenes content. Several streaming packages are available, including one that combines the UHC and Jazz.

The Utah Hockey Club is the shiny new toy, and the metropolitan area of more than 1.2 million people has already shown great enthusiasm for a team that played in Arizona State University香蕉视频直播檚 5,000-seat arena the past two years.

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Utah has a young corps of players led by Clayton Keller and a defense upgraded with some offseason moves that included . General manager Bill Armstrong has built mostly through the draft, and he is hesitant to forecast whether the team can make a legitimate push for the playoffs this season.

He prefers to stick with the day-to-day approach for Utah, which opens its season Oct. 8 at home against the Chicago Blackhawks.

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There is a lot of competition for the attention of sports fans in the area beyond the NHL and NBA teams. BYU and Utah are Power Four Conference teams with passionate fan bases. Real Salt Lake of the MLS averages more than 20,000 fans.

How long the honeymoon lasts for the NHL team remains to be seen.

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