NHL commissioner Gary Bettman recently met with a newly formed committee of Maricopa County “political and business leaders” interested in pursuing an expansion franchise to bring the league back to Arizona.

Just when you thought the story was over, the wheels are in motion to bring the NHL back to a place it had just left. According to Arizona Insider Craig

Thomas Galvin, the newly elected chairman of Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, held his first meeting of 2025 today where he laid out his strategy to bring NHL hockey back to the city of Phoenix.

In the past year, the saga of the Arizona Coyotes has finally come to a conclusion. After years of being the laughingstock of the league, the team has moved to Utah.