ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota-based giant utility Xcel may lose its name in lights on the city-owned hockey arena for which pays $3 million a year. Charley Walters, a sports reporter for the St. Paul pioneer Press, wrote that at least one other company has entered a competitive bid for naming rights Walters named neither the new bidder company nor his source. The 18,000-seat hockey arena and concert venue has carried the Xcel name since it opened in 2020.
New name in works? Fans for a quarter century s have called it simply “the X.”