Big changes await Mammoth fans at Delta Center Wednesday night
Oct 15, 2025, 2:46 PM | Updated: 4:50 pm
Fans sit in the sections behind the nets that were renovated for the 2025-26 hockey season in the Delta Center before an NHL preseason game between the Utah Mammoth and the Los Angeles Kings in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News)
(Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY — Fans headed to the Delta Center for the Utah Mammoth’s regular-season home opener have a few hundred surprises in store for them.
Namely, the hundreds of new seats in the lower bowl. Officials told KSL that this change is just the first of many.
The steepness behind the nets at Delta Center. pic.twitter.com/Os1BoRtGKK
— Cole Bagley (@BagleyKSLsports) October 2, 2025
(Video courtesy Cole Bagley on X, @BagleyKSLsports)
The 1,100 new seats equate to a fully unobstructed lower bowl. The change is expected to offer a big boost for the Utah Mammoth players.
“It definitely helps with the whole experience, with the noise. We’re a very steep venue — right on top of the ice — and the players notice it. They feel it,” said Jim Olsen, Smith Entertainment Group executive director.
“It gives us great home advantage,” he said.
This home advantage is only expected to grow. After this season ends, SEG plans to renovate one end of the upper bowl. They’re expected to renovate the other end the following summer.
The newly completed lower bowl at the Delta Center.
Unreal what they accomplished. Hockey is back! pic.twitter.com/LPJYrUbaG7
— Cole Bagley (@BagleyKSLsports) October 2, 2025
(Video courtesy Cole Bagley on X, @BagleyKSLsports)
To put that in perspective, right now there are 12,400 unobstructed hockey seats. By 2027, there will be nearly 17,000.
Related: Parking garage to be added to the Delta Center
