Billionaire owner Ryan Smith is close to fulfilling his long-held wish to add the NHL to the Utah sports scene.

And the league's Salt Lake City natives are excited about the prospect of the move.

✍️ Eric Stephens

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Looks like Carolina will be sitting *8* regulars tonight. Going to be some strange rosters here the rest of the week as teams start load management of their stars.

🏆 NHL Awards Watch 🏆

The final edition has Nathan MacKinnon narrowly leading an extremely tight four-person battle for the MVP.
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Initial story on the Sabres firing Don Granato. A bad power play, repeated slow starts and a team that never seemed ready to handle the pressure of expectations ultimately doomed Granato The Athletic NHL: theathletic.com/5419513/2024/0…

The Oilers haven't scored 10 goals in a game since a 10-1 beatdown of Calgary way back in 1996, nearly 30 years ago.

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Sharks rookie Devin Cooley finally gets the mercy pull after allowing 8 goals in a little more than half the game. He finishes with a 14.55 GAA and .619 save percentage.

Feels like the Oilers could score 15 tonight if they wanted.

FINAL: The #NYR WIN 4-0 against Ottawa.

They win the Presidents’ Trophy and secure home ice throughout the playoffs.

The Islanders are in. One spot left.

New, for The Athletic: How the #Yotes -Salt Lake relocation plan came together, and what issues remain.

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Game 82 of 82, and it’s a big one. If the #NYR win, they get the Presidents’ Trophy.

About a month ago, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and his deputy Bill Daly paid a visit to Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo to broach the subject of relocation.

The initial reception wasn’t warm, per a league source.

So how did we get here?

✍️ Chris Johnston

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The latest on the Coyotes relocation talks and how the NHL got to this point via Chris Johnston The Athletic NHL

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Ilya Samsonov’s late slide, the spread attack, Nylander’s cool spell, injuries, Matthews’ heater, and who’s on D:

Are the Leafs ready for the playoffs?

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Team Canada wins gold medal in IIHF Women’s World Championship overtime thriller.

Story from the buzzer with more to come from Utica. theathletic.com/5415387/2024/0…

Asia Davis needed to find a hero, so she did what many do in this day and age: She turned to the internet.

Her mission: reunite with the man who put his body on the line to protect her son this past Thursday at a Cleveland Monsters hockey game. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…

DANIELLE SERDACHNY OT WINNER.

Canada wins the 2024 women’s world championship in the craziest Canada-USA game I’ve ever seen.

As Coyotes era ends, so does three decades of bickering, turmoil and instability in Arizona

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Maple Leafs observations: The comeback that almost was theathletic.com/5413248/2024/0…