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Utah Hockey Club debuts Oct. 8 against Chicago, the same night Panthers raise Stanley Cup banner | Sports

The Utah Hockey Club will play its first regular-season game Oct. 8 against Connor Bedard and the Chicago Blackhawks, marking the debut of the NHL in Salt Lake City following the team’s move from Arizona. That same night, the Florida Panthers will raise their first Stanley Cup banner to the rafters in Sunrise, Florida, before facing off against the Boston Bruins. The NHL released the list of home openers for each of its 32 teams Monday with the full 1,312-game regular-season schedule expected this week. Utah, which is expected to have a permanent name in time for the 2025-26 season, will play at the Delta Center, home of the NBA’s Utah Jazz, an arena that will undergo renovations to provide more unobstructed views for NHL games. The capacity is 16,200 for the inaugural season, with not all directly facing the ice, but the demand has been high with 30,000 season-ticket deposits. “We are thrilled to play the first regular season game in franchise history, at home, in front of our amazing fans,” president of hockey operations Chris Armstrong said. “The eyes of the hockey world will be on Utah when we host the Blackhawks on that historic night, and we

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Mountain West signs TV deal with TNT Sports, Utah State vs New Mexico to be on TruTV | Sports

The Mountain West Conference and TNT Sports announced a multi-year TV broadcasting agreement this morning which will begin this year. The deal will include 14 broadcasts of Mountain West football games for the 2024 season, one of which includes Utah State as the Aggies’ Oct. 19 matchup with New Mexico will be on TruTV with a now-announced kickoff time of 2 p.m. All 14 of the Mountain West games will air on TruTV and streamed on HBO’s Max. It’s tru‼️The Mountain West and @tntsports have teamed up on a multi-year agreement to bring #MWFB to @truTV and @StreamOnMax 📺🏈 pic.twitter.com/NhhwcDm4YM — Mountain West (@MountainWest) July 1, 2024 TNT Sports, formerly known as Warner Bros. Discovery Sports and earlier as Turner Sports, is expanding back into broadcasting college football games for the first time in more than a decade. It had already agreed to sublicensing deals with ESPN that will let them air College Football Playoff games. This agreement runs alongside the current agreement between the Mountain West and both Fox Sports and CBS which signed a media rights deal in 2020 that runs through the end of the 2025-26 academic year. The majority of Mountain West games will still air

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Neemias Queta re-signs with Boston Celtics on multi-year contract | Sports

Former Utah State men’s basketball star center Neemias Queta seems to have found a longer-term home in the NBA after re-signing with the NBA champion Boston Celtics in the early hours of free agency and the start of the new league year. The deal, first reported by Shams Charania of The Athletic, is reported to be a two-year contract worth an estimated $4.5 million. A little more than 24 hours before the start of the free agency period, the Celtics technically waived Queta, though reports did indicate mutual interest in re-negotiating a new deal. The contract Boston opted out of was likewise a multi-year agreement. Queta had initially signed a two-way contract on Sept. 17 shortly after being waived by the Sacramento Kings. That two-way deal was later converted to a rest-of-season contract worth just under $2.3 million for the rest of the 2023-24 season, including playoffs, and a team option for Boston to keep Queta for the 2024-25 season. Boston chose to decline the option for 2024-25 but re-signed Queta for a very similar salary but with one more year attached to the end of it. It hasn’t been reported if the second year is a team option, which would

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