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.

 

[Hostile Offer]

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.

I kind of agree. "Hockey Club" obviously doesn't align at all with the NA sports teams naming traditions so it looks a bit out of place but I actually really like the simple elegance of the name. It's both vanilla and very bold at the same time. Heck, maybe it can even set a precedent for other new teams.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Outlaws is best IMO

 

[Reality Czech]

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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

The problem is that Utah itself is bland. That's the reason why their college team is the Utah Utes.

Incredible nature though. Probably the best I've ever seen in the States. Just tough to name teams after geological formations. Utah Arches just doesn't make sense.

I asked chatGPT to suggest some names. How about Utah Locomotives (the Locos) or Scorpions (probably taken my some arena football team or something). Others include Phantoms, Peaks, Venom, Sidewinders, Vigilantes and Stallions.

 

[Hasbro]

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...

They were trying to have it both ways and appeal to pretentious soccer jags for the year.

 

[Voight]

I live here. In Canada we have an 8 team football league (CFL) that had two teams

Saskatchewan Rough Riders and The
Ottawa Rough Riders.

Considering at one point a full 25% of a professional league was named the rough riders im sure we could work something out

The Rough Riders were founded in 1876, The (Sask) Roughriders in 1910, so there's a chance copyright/trademark laws weren't what they are now when the Saskatchewan team was founded.

I really like the outlaws, but I agree. I'm sure the league will be super involved to ensure the logos wouldn't be too menacing. And it's an unfortunate guarantee no logo will include a gun, despite the usual outlaw being portrayed as a wild west era gunslinger. God forbid we have a cartoon image of a gun, it will be directly responsible for the next act of gun violence of course.

The LDS will likely opine in this as well, given their influence in Utah.

 

[Voight]

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!

Agreed, the Avalanche had less time than Utah did and were able to change their name.

 

[Sentinel]

Name it "Mammoth." That way, they will be extinct soon.

 

[Canadiens Ghost]

L

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

Who cares if they stole it from soccer or not? It's a stupid, generic name and at least they had enough sense not to call themselves "HC".
So many Soccer teams call themselves "FC". So bland and boring and unoriginal. Sound like placeholders.

I agree "Utah" is terrible and Salt Lake would be infinitely better for pretty much any name generation.

 

[Paper]

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.

Wait, what should The Flames be then? The Calgary Martin Luther King Jr.'s? The burning of Atlanta was a pretty big historical deal.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Las Vegas Knights wouldn't gotten approved by the trademark board cause there's a hockey team in canada that uses knights.

does that really matter? like New York Jets didn't get in the way of Winnipeg using Jets, multiple times.
New York Giants/San Fran Giants
Carolina Panthers/Florida Panthers
Sacramento Kings/LA Kings
I'm sure there's more too.

Utah Raptors would be cool