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Originally Posted by Cirrus
Wow, good for SLC. Hope that's true. Hockey belongs in a winter sports town more than freaking Phoenix.
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I'm generally an opponent of using TIF or subsidies to build stadiums for privately-owned sports teams. But it sounds like the Coyotes tried nine ways from Sunday to build a home for the team, and kept getting shut down. One even had 90%+ private financing (1.9B of 2.1B).
I had fond memories of going to a Utah Golden Eagles game as a kid. I bet a major league hockey team will find strong support in the state.
The question now: Should they re-name the team? And if they do, we run into the perennial problem... Utah just doesn't have anything noteworthy to name the team after (Lakes, Mountains, Bees...?) Which is why the Jazz are still the Jazz.