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Utah NHL team signs forward Noel Nordh to entry-level contract
The Utah NHL team has signed forward prospect Noel Nordh to a three-year, entry-level contract, CapFriendly reported Saturday evening.
Nordh, 19, became the first player to officially sign a contract with the Utah team since it relocated from Arizona in April. The Arizona Coyotes originally selected Nordh in the third round (No. 72 overall) of the 2023 NHL Draft.
The 6’2″ left wing spent the majority of the 2023–24 regular season with Brynäs IF in the second-tier Allsvenskan league in Sweden, collecting six goals and 15 points in 50 games. Additionally, he racked up 10 goals and 22 points in 15 games with Brynäs’ U20 affiliate team.
The Coyotes originally acquired the draft pick they used to select Nordh from the Washington Capitals in exchange for forward Johan Larsson ahead of the 2022 trade deadline.
Nordh’s contract with Utah will take effect in the 2024–25 season. He’ll be eligible to play in the American Hockey League immediately but could remain in Sweden for another year while on loan from Utah.
Born on January 25, 2005, Nordh is one of the oldest players eligible to participate at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship in Ottawa this coming winter, but it remains to be seen whether he’ll be picked to play for Team Sweden.
Nordh is the first member of the Coyotes’ 2023 NHL Draft class to sign a contract with the newly-relocated franchise. Utah retained previous Coyotes general manager Bill Armstrong and the rest of his hockey operations department from Arizona through the move.
The Coyotes selected a pair of Russians in the first round of last year’s draft: Dmitri Simashev and Daniil But, both of whom will become eligible to sign with Utah after their KHL contracts expire at the end of next season. Nordh was the second of four players the Coyotes drafted in last year’s second round, along with Jonathan Castagna, Tanner Ludtke, and Vadim Moroz.
The final player to sign a contract with the Coyotes before the move was 2021 seventh-round pick Sam Lipkin, who won the NCAA Division I men’s national championship with Quinnipiac in 2023 and collected 78 points in 78 games over his two seasons of college hockey. As with the rest of the now-former Coyotes players, Lipkin’s contract transferred to Utah when Ryan Smith purchased the team from Alex Meruelo.
KANOSH, Utah — The United States Geological Survey recorded multiple earthquakes near Kanosh Sunday morning, each of them having an average magnitude of 3.0.
The first earthquake, magnitude 3.0, was detected just after 12:30 a.m., with the epicenter located half a mile south of Kanarraville.
The second quake, magnitude 3.2, was detected around 5:45 a.m., with the epicenter nearly five miles south-southwest of Kanosh. This was followed by two more quakes in the same area, a magnitude 2.5 quake coming in around 6:35 a.m., followed by a third around 7:45 a.m, which measured at magnitude 3.3.
This has since been followed by another quake, measuring at magnitude 3.7, being detected around 8:45 a.m. The geographic location in the USGS report places the epicenter approximately over two miles south of the Dry Wash Trail, about six miles south-southwest of Kanosh.
FOX 13 News previously spoke with researchers at University of Utah, who said that earthquake swarms are relatively common. A study published in 2023 posits that swarms may be triggered by geothermal activity. The findings came after a series of seismic swarms were detected in central Utah, within the vicinity of three geothermal power plants.
The study also says that the swarms fall into a different category than aftershocks that typically follow large quakes, such as the magnitude 5.7 earthquake that hit the Wasatch Fault back in 2020.
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