Halakitlikethat
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Hockey Club shouldn’t even be an option. Am I taking crazy pills? It’s stupid to even have it this season.
Utah Hockey Club down to final 3 names: Hockey Club, Mammoth, and Outlaws (upd: Wasatch already nixed)
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So I am just assuming some company named Wasatch is out there or something. One bad name down and 2 to go.
Canadiens Ghost
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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.
Reality Czech
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I can't believe some people actually like the Mammoth.
We're big, hairy, slow and extinct, let's go team!
We're big, hairy, slow and extinct, let's go team!
SI90
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Hank Plank
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ponder719
Abols to Abols, Dust to Dust
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.
Utah Raptors was the correct choice nobody had the opportunity to go for.
mouser
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Does seem crazy to have Hockey Club as a team name, don’t know what the heck Montreal was thinking back in the day.
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
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Pierre-Luc Dubas
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Honestly its the “Utah” part that sucks.
way too bland and generic, should be something like Salt Lake HC/hockey club
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
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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!
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!
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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
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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
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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.
Reality Czech
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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.
They were trying to have it both ways and appeal to pretentious soccer jags for the year.
Voight
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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.
The LDS will likely opine in this as well, given their influence in Utah.
Voight
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Agreed, the Avalanche had less time than Utah did and were able to change their name.
Sentinel
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Canadiens Ghost
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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.
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
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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
