**Salt Lake City:** Exciting New NHL Team Name in the Works for Utah’s Capital
Salt Lake City, Utah welcomed its first major league professional sports franchise in the summer of 1979 when the NBA decided to relocate a struggling team from New Orleans to the city. The league’s board of governors approved the move on June 9, 1979, just four months before the team’s first home game. The team held a naming contest, but original owner Sam Battistone was unimpressed with the submissions. Eventually, the team stuck with the …