Salt Lake City mayor Erin Mendenhall drafted a letter seeking NHL's commissioner Gary Bettman send a franchise to Utah, but ultimately the letter was never sent. Why?
Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith has his sights on pro hockey, but hasn’t committed to putting a team in Utah’s capital city.
According to records obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune, city officials drafted a proposed letter from Mayor Erin Mendenhall to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman in May, hoping to sell the league on moving a team to Salt Lake City.“After circling up with our partners in this effort, they don’t think it will be helpful to ‘lobby’ the commissioner and may have unintended negative consequences,” Rachel Otto, Mendenhall’s chief of staff, advised in an email obtained by The Tribune.
But as Utah Jazz owners Ryan and Ashley Smith continue to express their interest in bringing an NHL team to Utah, all options appear to be on the table. In the wake of the vote, the mayor of Hartford and the governor of Connecticut released a public letter in an effort to lure the Coyotes out of Arizona.“It’s often said that Utah has the “Greatest Snow on Earth,” it begins. “Well, our ice is pretty good, too.
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