SALT LAKE CITY MURDER MYSTERY?

Long before the NHL came to Utah, local businessman Dan Meyer showed that pro hockey could not only survive in Mormon country but thrive. Decades later, his sudden death remains shrouded in mystery. Was it suicide or was it homicide?

BY RANDY BOSWELL

IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON of Jan. 25, 1972, the NHL was just hours away from its annual All-Star Game when Dan Meyer took a break from a meeting between NHL and minor-league executives and went up to his suite on the 19th floor of the Radisson South hotel in Bloomington, Minn. Next door, Paul Henderson of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Pit Martin of the Chicago Black Hawks were reminiscing about their days as Detroit Red Wings linemates in the 1960s when they heard the sound of shattering glass. They looked out the window and saw the unthinkable: a man stepping through the broken window, straddling a metal bar. Henderson started to shake and become nauseous as the horrific nature of what was unfolding suddenly became clear. “We were up there…

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