On this day last year, Utah did not have a National Hockey League team. Last night, the Utah Hockey Club completed its final game of the season with a 6-1 loss against the St. Louis Blues.
What was the first season of Utah Hockey Club like? What did we learn?
Here are three highlights from Utah Hockey Club reporter Brogan Houston:
Logan Cooley and Dylan Guenther are studs: Cooley has the highest ceiling of any forward drafted since the turn of the decade, and Guenther has arguably the best shot on the planet.
The team is trending in the right direction: Half the team set new career highs in one statistical category or another.
Hockey WORKS in Utah: Utah sold out every home game this season, and every game was loud.
Granite community of about one thousand people in S.L. County wants to become a city. Why?
Residents in the small community of Granite are looking to preserve the culture of the area by becoming a city.
The unincorporated area located in southeast Salt Lake County near the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon occupies less than a square mile and is home to fewer than 1,100 residents.
Those residents want to keep the rural and distinct flavor of the area forged by early pioneers mining for the rock to be used in construction of the Salt Lake Temple, Amy Joi O'Donoghue reported.
“Granite is the only pioneer community in Salt Lake County that is not part of a larger city,” Vaughn Cox, chairman of the Granite Community Council, said. “The community has a real rural feel with animals, large lots, rural streets and a small town feel to it. The residents want to incorporate to maintain the rural nature of their community.”
Here are three key points:
A new law allows islands of land to possibly become a new city, and Granite community is going down that path.
Leaders say they want to preserve the feel of the area and be unique from Sandy City.
Enough signatures have been gathered to determine if it is feasible.
Finals week and Holy Week landed on the same week this year, and Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles reminded students which was most important.
“It’s arguably the most sacred week in the Christian calendar,” he said. “We commemorate our Savior’s final days in mortality, culminating with his glorious Resurrection and triumph over death on that beautiful Easter Sunday.”
A large audience — 13,815 — gathered at the Marriott Center for the campus devotional. Elder Uchtdorf said finals, which begin on Friday, “are important, too," Tad Walch writes.
Here are three quotes from the devotional:
“We tend to think of joy as the absence of sorrow. But what if joy is not the absence of sorrow? What if joy and sorrow can coexist? What if they have to coexist?”
“Just as He entered triumphantly into Jerusalem, the gentle Christ enters your lives, individually, if you will receive him."
“I bless you with hearts that are open as wide as the gates of Jerusalem to joyfully receive the Messiah, the Savior, the King of kings. I bless you with eyes to see his miraculous power working in your life, wherever you are. And as one of his apostles I testify of his power, his love, and his tender care for each and every one of you.”
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🗓️ Events Calendar
We put together a calendar list of events and activities going on around the state of Utah during this month. Check it out and let us know if we are missing anything!
Here are some highlights for events in Utah today:
Spring Utah Art Market | Four Lemons, Holladay
Kraftwerk | Union Event Center
“Wicked” | The Eccles Theater, Salt Lake
Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland Jr.” | SCERA Center for the Arts, Orem
Please reach out to me at sgambles@deseretnews.com if you have any thoughts, feedback or ideas you would like to share!
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