The Delta Center prepares to host Stanley Cup Playoff hockey
Three years ago, nobody would have thought playoff hockey in Utah to be possible. Now, it’s a reality.
Players are introduced before an NHL game between the Utah Mammoth and the St. Louis Blues at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 16, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News A sports arena is more than a building.
It’s part of the identity of the teams it facilitates. Just like the NHL team it hosts, the Delta Center in Salt Lake City has seen tremendous growth over the last two years. Now, as the Utah Mammoth return home for Games 3 and 4 of their best-of-seven-series with the Vegas Golden Knights, the building prepares for its maiden voyage into the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Here are some of its biggest moments since the NHL arrived in Utah. April 24, 2024: ‘Welcome to Utah’ event Aside from the handful of preseason games that had been played at the Delta Center in the years leading up to the team’s arrival, the welcome event was the first glimpse at the local crowd’s interest in hockey. It did not disappoint.
Fans filled the building to capacity, and those who couldn’t get in tuned into the broadcast from the plaza outside. “They told us that Utah was too small for an NHL team,” said Gov. Spencer Cox at the time.
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