Utah NHL players and execs give first impressions of Delta Center and Salt Lake hockey fans

The Utah NHL team had a whirlwind of a first day in their home.

Players and their families, coaches and other staff members landed at Salt Lake City Airport at around 10:30 a.m. and received an uproarious reception from hundreds of youth hockey players. They went to their hotel for a while, then toured Zions Bank Basketball Campus and the Delta Center, where they’ll start play later this year as a new hockey franchise.

And when they saw the ice on the arena, the design of the seats and everything in between, it seemed like they were already imagining what it would be like to play there.

“It looks unbelievable,” right wing Clayton Keller said. “It’s kind of unique with the seats kind of being right on top of you. Everything that we’ve heard is the building is always super loud. They’ve had 250 straight sellouts for the Jazz. So that’s super exciting.”

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