{"id":481761,"date":"2024-04-10T19:55:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T23:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481761"},"modified":"2024-04-10T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T23:55:19","slug":"nhl-aim-to-relocate-coyotes-to-utah","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nhl-aim-to-relocate-coyotes-to-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL aim to relocate Coyotes to Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hockey League is working on a contingency that could move the Arizona Coyotes to Utah as soon as next campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The NHL and the Arizona Coyotes are preparing for the possibility of a move to Utah as soon as April 18, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FriedgeHNIC<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R5bBZbI1EE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/R5bBZbI1EE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1778153958235623666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite the league still believing that the organization must remain in Arizona, the NHL didn\u2019t trust the Coyotes&#8217; newest plan to build a venue in Phoenix, which featured the team owner&#8217;s bid to win a land auction in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The league is ready with plan B, which would sell the franchise to Ryan and Ashley Smith, owners of the National Basketball Association\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/utah-jazz\/\">Utah Jazz<\/a>, in a relocation move to Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>Because of that, the National Hockey League is preparing 2 schedules for the next campaign \u2013 1 involving the team in Arizona and 1 if they relocate to Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Official relocation news could be shared until the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The Coyotes declined to discuss the possibility of the team\u2019s relocation to Utah starting next campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hockey League is working on a contingency that could move the Arizona Coyotes to Utah as soon as next campaign. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481762,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17088,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17980,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The league plans to move the Coyotes to Utah.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481763,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481761\/revisions\/481763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481761"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481761"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}