What's going on at Delta Center? The Utah Jazz and Hockey Club have combined to win just nine games at home so far this season.
Gordon Monson: The once-proud Delta Center is now haunted, plagued by the ghosts and ghouls of losing| Jan. 16, 2025, 2:33 p.m.has the worst home win percentage in the NHL, with just six wins.
Visiting players hated playing there for a whole lot of reasons, foremost among them, they knew they had only a scant shot at victory. They knew it and the Jazz knew it, and the fans knew it. The cinder blocks in the walls and the steel girders in the roof, where the crowd noise of what sounded like a squadron of F-22 fighters taking off ricocheted from every hard surface in the arena, knew it.
Yeah, it helped that the Jazz often had stellar teams taking the floor, teams that were, as mentioned, fairly convinced they were going to win even before they left the locker room. I once asked Antoine Carr, as he sat in front of his locker in the minutes before the opening tip what the odds were that the Jazz would triumph that night. He responded with a question of his own: “Where we playing?”And, sure enough, the victorious hounds were released, same as it ever was.
The thing is, even without a tanking effort going on, the same home-stumbling phenomenon is happening to the Utah Hockey Club. It shares the Jazz’s dubious designation, just not quite as lousy, with a home mark of 6-10-4. That doesn’t mean the building has to like it. I’m thinking the place is haunted now. That’s the feeling I get when I walk through the doors. The ghosts of past 50-plus-win seasons are floating hither and thither, making a racket, being chased around and off by sub-.500 spirits.
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