Ryan Smith discusses his drive to bring the NHL to Utah [FULL INTERVIEW] | Pat McAfee Show
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2024
- Ryan Smith, the owner of the Utah Jazz, joins The Pat McAfee Show to discuss his interest in bringing a NHL team to Salt Lake City that would include a new arena.
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BRING THE NHL TO UTAH!!!
Done!
Ryan Smith might be the most Utah name of all time
No expansion
Relocation of that dumpster fire of a franchise Arizona is the right play. There’s enough teams in nhl. Most teams can’t even find competent goaltending. We don’t need to water down the product any further.
You called it!
MAKE IT HAPPEN!! BRING THE NHL TO SALT LAKE CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesssss!!!
Done!
with all the news lately plz make it happen
Yes please
They need a newer arena or renovation to accommodate ice hockey which they don't have also there won't be relocation it's less money on the table
Literally the #BrotherofJared lol
AJ Hawk really had some good insight here
The Delta Center is brutal for hockey though
The NHL has the wealthiest owner in North American pro sports with David Thomson, Co owner of the Winnipeg Jets.
THAT DUDE GOLFS ….. for sure
Only 3.3 million people in the entire state of Utah.
He has two teams with RSL and the Jazz. Utah is lined up to get a MLB team but if they get that might lose our on a NHL team. It doesn't seem like a 4 team town. Three definitely
The Jets aren't the highest valued team in sports but Thomson's bet worth is more than any other owner
NHL to SLC confirmed!
Soaking jokes are funny, but this joke has turned into reality for most people.
I will say this once...soaking is NOT a real thing.
Not ever and never will be.
Are the Cowboys more profitable than the Yankees? Cowboys and NFL are definitely huge in America, but I feel like you see Yankee hats all over the world. Utah would be cool but I think there are already too many teams. Since the NHL won't agree there are too many and will expand anyway for the money, I think Utah could work.
Utah Yeti. Let’s gooooo
30 teams was enough. Too many teams nowadays
I'd say 32 is the perfect number.
@@RyanReynoldsHair32 is definitely good but I think 34 is probably the absolute maximum
Ohh….sorry the sport of hockey is growing 🙄
Arizona isnt leaving the state. Its Bettmans child, also the NHl wants the expansion fee.. so yeahh
Love hockey, but Delta Center sucks for hockey. For upper bowl, you have to be in front row or your vision is significantly blocked. So, another arena is a must in my opinion cuz the Maverik center is great, but too small for an NHL team.
with an owner like this, hockey is going to become huge in Utah. As a canuck fan I'm cheering for Utah to be a success and a new rivalry. I'd love to travel down to Salt Lake City to watch a few games.
Ryan Smith looks like he hates poor people.
So? Im not even rich and i hate poor people too 😂
I think relocation is more likely than expansion. Yhe Arizona Coyotes need a venue for next season
No the owner has to sell the coyotes first plus that will cost more money plus it has to be voted on by the owners
you called it
This aged well
How about Quebec or Hamilton f Gary Bettam step down ok ,hockey is a Canadian game
They should move the Jets to Salt Lake, better support and more money.
Hockeys leaving Canada cause that place has gone way down hill
@@bobstoops4864 imagine salt lake city selling more season tickets than winnipeg, that's laughable
didn't the jets sellout every home game for ten years straight? (2010 to 2020)
Utah is a joke - all those hard drinking hockey players in Utah get out of here
What are you 14? You sure have a lot to say but nobody's listening! @@sampicano
@@sampicanoJets are struggling with attendance clown even tho they are one of the best teams.
This is 100% designed to show that we have a stadium immediately available to house the Yotes and a world class stadium that will be built immediately and unopposed for the olympics if a team were moved here. I think the expansion is a hail mary, with the goal of putting pressure on the NHL to just move the yotes while they're STILL floundering to get land rights locked down. It's going to succeed here, and Canadians are just seething because their weak dollar, half of the league with no trades to Canadian markets, and the growth of the game in the US makes it immediately accessible. Canadians with no idea of what Utah or its people are like and have never been here commenting on the viability of it is laughable at best.
Its unlikely they will move Arizona... dont think they want to miss out on the billion dollar expansion fee from Utah...
And I think Canadians have every right to be salty about another US team, since they are way more deserving of another NHL team than any US-market is.
Just look at the TV-deal they got compared to the US.. the target audience is only a fraction of the US, yet their TV deal is almost as much; and thats part of the problem; they are watching hockey regardless, the only reason the NHL is expanding is to gain new customers, not to satifsy people who are already watching.
Its unlikely they will move Arizona... dont think they want to miss out on the billion dollar expansion fee from Utah...
And I think Canadians have every right to be salty about another US team, since they are way more deserving of another NHL team than any US-market is.
Just look at the TV-deal they got compared to the US.. the target audience is only a fraction of the US, yet their TV deal is almost as much; and thats part of the problem; they are watching hockey regardless, the only reason the NHL is expanding is to gain new customers, not to satifsy people who are already watching.
Its unlikely they will move Arizona... dont think they want to miss out on the billion dollar expansion fee from Utah...
And I think Canadians have every right to be salty about another US team, since they are way more deserving of another NHL team than any US-market is.
Just look at the TV-deal they got compared to the US.. the target audience is only a fraction of the US, yet their TV deal is almost as much; and thats part of the problem; they are watching hockey regardless, the only reason the NHL is expanding is to gain new customers, not to satifsy people who are already watching.
Its unlikely they will move Arizona... dont think they want to miss out on the billion dollar expansion fee from Utah...
And I think Canadians have every right to be salty about another US team, since they are way more deserving of another NHL team than any US-market is.
Just look at the TV-deal they got compared to the US.. the target audience is only a fraction of the US, yet their TV deal is almost as much; and thats part of the problem; they are watching hockey regardless, the only reason the NHL is expanding is to gain new customers, not to satifsy people who are already watching.
Its unlikely they will move Arizona... dont think they want to miss out on the billion dollar expansion fee from Utah...
And I think Canadians have every right to be salty about another US team, since they are way more deserving of another NHL team than any US-market is.
Just look at the TV-deal they got compared to the US.. the target audience is only a fraction of the US, yet their TV deal is almost as much; and thats part of the problem; they are watching hockey regardless, the only reason the NHL is expanding is to gain new customers, not to satifsy people who are already watching.
The suits are on board but no fans want more teams. Watered down enough already.
You can NOT have our Coyotes
Make an expansion team
I fully support a team in Salt Lake city but NOT the Arizona Coyotes who have been in AZ for 28 years.
From the sounds of it ryan Smith wants an expansion team as well. But it might not come down to what he wants and he'll have to take what he can get (possibly the coyotes) lol. I live in utah and I'd prefer a brand new team over getting yalls hammy downs 😂 😉
@801MOTO3 I love my handmedown Yotes
I love watching hockey in general. I wanna see an all new team in Utah too that would be awesome. There are plenty of cities that deserve and can support new teams.
What would you like to see the new team be named ?
I live in Utah and would love to have NHL. I think everyone would rather have an expansion team. I hope the Coyotes get their act together and get a new stadium built. Then Utah and AZ could be rivals.
@dsarmy1 yes 100% agree. That would be a great rivalry.
Yeah those 500 fans would be devastated
make it happen ryan. broker a deal to get that clusterfk out of az. and to slc. bettman will hold his d--- k forever waiting on arena in az. if you don't
No more expansion there’s enough water down as is. What they NEED to do is FINALLY move the yotes outta Arizona. Send THEM to Utah.
Ryan, brah........just lose the hats/visors and just own your male pattern balding already !!!
Salt Lake City population is 1,257,936. 1.2 million. Utah has terrible hockey registration.
The smallest US market in the NHL is Buffalo 1,125,637 million. New York has fantastic hockey registration.
You've got to be kidding me. I couldn't hate the United States anymore if I tried. Go play shoot someone, leave hockey to Canadians.
If you are going to go to a small market, go somewhere where they ACTUALLY follow hockey.
Like, all I ever hear about is CANADIAN MARKETS ARE TOO SMALL - meanwhile Gary Bettman wants to relocate to the second smallest US market in the NHL.
Quebec City would do better than Phoenix.
Know how I know? Winnipeg did better than Atlanta. Winnipeg made more money than Atlanta when they relocated in 2010. Winnipeg soldout every home game (41 games a year) from 2010 to 2020. Ten years straight of sellouts.
And Quebec City (839,311) is larger than Winnipeg (834,678).
Quebec City is the LAST major population center in Canada that doesn't have an NHL team...it's a joke.
I would do ANYTHING for Bettman to go away and leave the game to Canadians again.
Stop ruining the sport I LOVE.
Who says us in Utah doesn't follow NHL? If the NHL can afford to grow then it should. Maybe in a hundred years it grows to 60 teams but don't hate just because another city gets a team before another.
@@dsarmy1 some cities are deserving of hockey...some cities are less deserving
You can pretend as if salt lake city is on par with Milwaukee or Portland in terms of being hockey markets, but it just isn't.
Milwaukee, Portland those are better, more deserving hockey markets - and teams in those cities would generate more revenue for the league.
Houston has 7.1 million people - Salt Lake City has 1.2 million...it would be the SECOND SMALLEST MARKET IN THE US - dude go away
Quebec City IS FAR MORE DESERVING and has a FAR LARGER FANBASE and has AN ACTUAL NHL READY ARENA
Quebec City has the Videotron Centre (18,259 capacity) built in 2015. Salt Lake City has the Delta Center (14,000 capacity for hockey) and built in 1991...gross
Salt Lake City is LITERALLY the 5th or 6th best option - if Coyotes have nowhere else to go...fine. But don't act as if Salt Lake City is a smart option, or a well deserving option.
Maybe in 60 years Salt Lake City will have as many hockey fans with wallets as Quebec, when that happens you can have a team.
Maybe when you get the Olympics in 2034 and actually build AN ARENA...then you can ACTUALLY have an NHL team.
You know what they should do? See who can sell more season tickets....Quebec City or Salt Lake City
Hold a season ticket drive in Quebec City (839,311) and a season ticket drive in Salt Lake City (1,257,936) and see who sells more tickets.
And the city that sells more season tickets can have an NHL team LMFAO and you will see just how much better of a market Quebec City would be :)
@@sampicano You can't base what a deserving city is on population numbers. You're just a hateful person. You even mention it before. Get your panties out of a bunch before you make anymore comments.
You're only looking at the main metro population, which is contained mostly within Salt Lake County. The larger combined statistical area (CSA) that includes the Ogden and Provo areas is over 2.7 million, making it 22nd largest CSA in the US. This places it at around the same size as the CSA for Pittsburgh and larger than CSAs for other existing NHL markets in Nashville, Las Vegas and yes, Buffalo. On top of that, with how spread out things are in the west, media markets extend hundreds of miles beyond the main population center, often into other smaller secondary markets. The point is, media markets are more complex than just the localized population, especially when you consider current and projected growth. There are way more factors than what you have laid out.
@@flibbidyx2 I don't think he understands this. Utah's media market also includes parts of Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming because the bigger cities in those states are much farther away because western U.S. states are so large in area size.