The 2023-24 NHL season begins Tuesday, which means all the talk about Utah Hockey Club’s move from Arizona can be put aside and the focus can move to what happens on the ice. That raises a big question though: How good will Utah HC actually be this season?

The Utah Hockey Club sold about $160,000 worth of merchandise at its first preseason home game, a 3-2 overtime victory against the Los Angeles Kings on Sept. 23, even though it doesn’t have jerseys for sale yet. It almost broke the record for a Jazz game at Delta Center.

The Utah Hockey Club will make its NHL regular-season debut on Tuesday in a national telecast on ESPN, but it could be shut out from local viewers thereafter thanks to a carriage dispute. Comcast and Scripps Sports failed to come to terms on an agreement where the cable operator would carry independent local affiliate KUPX