Utah Hockey Club down to final 3 names: Hockey Club, Mammoth, and Outlaws (upd: Wasatch already nixed)

[Halakitlikethat]

Hockey Club shouldn’t even be an option. Am I taking crazy pills? It’s stupid to even have it this season.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Of those 3 I am rooting for another conflicting trademark claim.

So I am just assuming some company named Wasatch is out there or something. One bad name down and 2 to go.

 

[Canadiens Ghost]

Bruh aren’t you a habs fan? What do you think the letters on their jersey stand for

Does anybody call them the "Montreal HC"? No! It's the Montreal Canadiens. Does anybody call Toronto the "Toronto HC" ("Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club" is their official name by the way)? No! It's the Toronto Maple Leafs.
What a dumb reply.

 

[Reality Czech]

I can't believe some people actually like the Mammoth.

We're big, hairy, slow and extinct, let's go team!

 

[SI90]

 

[Hank Plank]

That looks great.

 

[ponder719]

Of the given options, Outlaws is by far the best. I hope it wins.

Utah Raptors was the correct choice nobody had the opportunity to go for.

 

[LemonSauceD]

Mammoths. Go mams or go moths!

 

[mouser]

Hockey Club shouldn’t even be an option. Am I taking crazy pills? It’s stupid to even have it this season.

Does seem crazy to have Hockey Club as a team name, don’t know what the heck Montreal was thinking back in the day.

 

[jd22]

Hockey Club shouldn’t even be an option. Am I taking crazy pills? It’s stupid to even have it this season.

Utah HC would be the best name in the league, no kidding. North American sport team names are so juvenile and sad, aside from a few classics that actually have historical or environmental ties to the team location. The league would look a lot more serious with Vancouver HC, New York HC, Edmonton HC, Colorado HC.

Seriously. The 'Ducks'. The 'Flames'. The 'Coyotes'. The 'Penguins'. At least the Pittsburgh Steelers have historic reasons to be named Steelers. Same with the Red Wings. Most of these dumb names are just forced.

 

[Hank Plank]

Is Utah Hockey Team available?

 

[Nogatco Rd]

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Does anybody call them the "Montreal HC"? No! It's the Montreal Canadiens. Does anybody call Toronto the "Toronto HC" ("Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club" is their official name by the way)? No! It's the Toronto Maple Leafs.
What a dumb reply.

point being that its not something they stole from soccer, it’s a name that goes back to the origins of pro hockey.

Honestly its the “Utah” part that sucks.
way too bland and generic, should be something like Salt Lake HC/hockey club

 

[Rufus T Firefly]

I'll never understand how someone has a billion dollars ready to buy a hockey team, but doesn't have a name ready for that very hockey team. I thought getting the billion dollars would have been the hard part...

I also don't get the "uniqueness" people are saying for Utah Hockey Club. People are aware that soccer teams still have nicknames, right? Liverpool FC are the Reds, Man United are the Red Devils, Arsenal FC are the Gunners. Seems like Utah should still have some sort of nickname even if they go with UHC.So why not just skip the Hockey Club part and go right to the nickname?

My vote would have been Outlaws, but I guess I go with Mammoth, which I'll just always pronounce as Mammoths, for the same reason others have pointed out we don't call them the Anaheim Duck.

Edit: Nice to see Outlaws back in the mix! Now just have to hope it wasn't a typo and they're going with Utah Outlaw!

 

[castle]

Those are better than Jazz and Real Salt Lake (wtf there's no royalty in Utah and why Spanish, is it just because they thought Real Madrid was cool?)... but they aren't better by much.

To be fair to real salt lake, the territory was spanish before it was american. At leaat southern Utah was. Not sure if you'd say they really controlled it but they did consider it part do their territory and they did trade there

 

[PhysicalGraffiti]

Setting aside the issue of good taste, consider this:

Given the epidemic of school shootings in this country, there are plenty of middle/high schools where students are barred from wearing clothing on campus with depictions of guns.

With that in mind, do you think it would be a good idea for your business to prominently feature a handgun in its logo if your goal is to maximize revenue by selling merchandise and apparel to young people?

Guns are not illegal, nor are they objects associated with crime only. A firearm attached to someone would not be something I'd have an issue with for a business. If someone is wearing a shirt with a team mascot with a gun, or a police officer or military member with a gun, none of that is an issue to me or any hypothetical business I may own. Having a gun in each hand of an outlaw mascot for a sports team is hardly prominent nor is it some way to maximize revenue based on the firearm.


I don't care what schools do and the gun is merely the tool utilized. There are far more problems than the gun itself, which should not be accessible to children at all.. But if you're set on chaos, there are plenty of other weapons like knives. Take note of the knife attacks in Europe.

It's clear what your agenda is, and that's fine. You're not going to convince me the mere sight of a gun is outlandish or will contribute to violence. There's plenty of movies and video games that do far more with guns than a picture of one.