Iginla is the goal-scorer Utah craves, but he and the franchise will be patient with his development.
LAS VEGAS – Ryan Smith has only been an NHL owner for a couple months, but he’s already perfecting his hockeyspeak.
It’s true that the team concept applies far more to the NHL than to, say, the NBA, in which Smith owns the Utah Jazz. A single dominant player can often change a pro basketball franchise’s fate, which makes sense when the top players are on the court for three quarters of every game. In the NHL, on the other hand, the past two Stanley Cup champions in the Florida Panthers and Vegas Golden Knights embodied the team concept more than the star-based model.
That said, despite wanting to capture the imagination of their new fan base, Utah doesn’t consider itself in a hurry. Armstrong insisted Friday that the relocation “doesn’t accelerate” the rebuild process and pointed out that so many key contributors on the Florida Panthers’ 2024 championship team were “10 years in.”
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