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The 20 names have finally been revealed for the future Utah NHL team! As team owner, Ryan Smith stated: The public will vote for the name in a bracket-style poll. But released Wednesday night, the top 20 names are here! One thing to remember: The team will be "Utah", not "Salt Lake City"...

The year was 2021 when recently retired NBA Legend shocks the basketball community when he announces that he's a minority owner of the Utah Jazz basketball team. Wade played in the NBA for 16 years for 3 different teams, but most everybody knows him as the greatest Miami Heat player in franchise history...

Interest of a professional Hockey team in Utah is not a new concept. The Smith Entertainment Group, AKA Ryan Smith, AKA owner of the Utah Jazz, has been flirting with the NHL for multiple years now. Like any bout of flirtatious behavior, it either leads to a relationship or an awkward final text message...

Utah and hockey seem like a match made in heaven. The Wasatch mountains covered in fresh powder scream “Hockey Imaging”. Imagine the social media graphics and billboards up Interstate 80 with hockey players posed in front of those Utah mountainous backdrops. Utah cr...

When Ryan Smith bought the Utah Jazz, he had multiple goals in mind. Making the team more accessible, more marketable, more unique were likely amongst the top of them. He’s tinkered on the TV deal, brought in big names, allowed Danny Ainge to obliterate the roster and so on. H...