Utah is embracing its new NHL team. But is the frenzy sustainable?

Hockey has a rocky history in Salt Lake City but fans are flocking to see its new franchise. The team hopes it can build long-term stability“The fact has become very clear to us this year that, economically, hockey just does not work in this market,” Larry H Miller told a press conference in March 1994, announcing that he’d sold the minor league Salt Lake Golden Eagles to a group in Detroit headed by the then-owner of the NBA’s Detroit Pistons. The Golden Eagles needed 7,