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

[3074326]

The Utah Dutch van der Linde

Just started playing that again last night.

Anyways I hope they go with Mammoths.

 

[Circulartheory]

Utah Outlaws would be perfect. Outlaws is the exact opposite thing I think of when it comes to Utah. But they also have the Utah Jazz. Utah is also the absolute last place I think of when it comes to Jazz music. So its fun to be ironic I guess.

Or the Lakers

Reminds me of the BASEketball movie...

Soon it was commonplace for entire teams to change cities in search of greater profits. The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles where there are no lakes. The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil. The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music. The Raiders moved from Oakland to LA back to Oakland, no-one seemed to notice.

 

[wolfgaze]

Outlaws and mormons don't mix

Hmm, do you feel non-Mormons somehow 'mix' with the notion of 'Outlaws'?

I'm sure Mormons are smart enough to realize that the hockey players playing for their local team are not in fact 'Outlaws' and will not be promoting lawless behavior.

The name is absolutely fine as long as you don't read too much into it (which you are doing)

 

[Caps8112]

still like utah Snipes. animal logo of some kind, doesnt offend anyone, local to utah and related to hockey.

 

[yukoner88]

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

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

They may have been big n hairy, but I highly doubt they were slow.

 

[Nasti]

Utah is considered part of the Wild West.

Utah Giant Robot Spiders

 

[LOFIN]

Just stick with Hockey Club, and do a proper rebrand with some awesome logo.

It's unique in the American sports scene.

 

[WADEugottaBELAKthat]

Totally botched branding. No vision, no name, no clue. Bland, unorganized, timid. VGK and Seattle are like How hard can it be! Same old Yotes, er…

 

[BoardsofCanada]

Someone on X floated the Utah Raptors, which to me just makes sense and sounds good too. Unfortunately, it's taken. I personally don't like the Mammoth. I didn't like the Kraken when I first heard it and its started to grow on me.

What about the Utah Scorpions.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

Someone on X floated the Utah Raptors, which to me just makes sense and sounds good too. Unfortunately, it's taken. I personally don't like the Mammoth. I didn't like the Kraken when I first heard it and its started to grow on me.

What about the Utah Scorpions.

I don't like Raptors from a branding POV because of how unique it is. I get sports teams share names regularly, but in this day and age I don't think it's a smart thing to do with a very unique name associated with only one team. Imagine an NBA expansion team calling themselves the Avalanche.

Mammoth seems to be the best name. Outlaws feels like the name that would be used for a fictional Houston football team in a cheesy sports film. The only reason I would use Hockey Club would be if it was a way to use the Yeti branding, but I also think that is a bad move marketing wise because they would be encouraging the fans to view them as something they can't actually market.

 

[cowboy82nd]

Utah Outlaws would be perfect. Outlaws is the exact opposite thing I think of when it comes to Utah. But they also have the Utah Jazz. Utah is also the absolute last place I think of when it comes to Jazz music. So its fun to be ironic I guess.

That’s because the Utah Jazz relocated from New Orleans.

 

[amnesiac]

 

[wolfgaze]

I feel like the league should step in and punish the Utah ownership for all this name drama by forcing them to temporarily adopt the name 'Utah Drama Queens' for the '25-'26 NHL season.

 

[Ratsreign]

The powder blue outlaw ?

 

[BB79]

I like their current jerseys better..those look like something from NHL 25 create a team mode

 

[Half Clapper]

Just plz not be Utah Hockey Club! I'd be fine with the other two names

 

[eojsmada]

Really hoping for Outlaws. I suspect that will win out, if the fans were already making it a choice over Wasatch

 

[tarheelhockey]

This is the best news I’ve seen all week. Wasatch was the only really bad name on the table. Hockey Club is boring but acceptable, Mammoth is ok, and Outlaws is the right choice.

 

[The Hanging Jowl]

I like Utah Hockey Club and I like current uniforms. I hope people vote to keep them.

 

[The Hanging Jowl]

I would have found a way to make this work.

 

[IamNotADancer]

anything but HC. This isn't soccer.
I'd pick Mammoth between the 2

I mean that's why it's called HOCKEY club, not FC or SC.
It's really not that uncommon to name a hockey club..... hockey club.
But I suppose if you need it to be named after some weird mythical creature or a landmark that your prerogative.

 

[Anglesmith]

I don't even understand how Hockey Club is on the table.

Stumbling unknowingly into sentences like "alright, we've got a road trip coming up where we play the Avs, the Wild, the... Hockey Club, and the Predators" has been the absolute worst part of this current season in my opinion.

Still don't think it was acceptable to just twiddle their thumbs all year last year and not pick a damn name.

 

[NotWendell]

The Utah Salts. Get salty!

 

[Oddbob]

It needs to be Outlaws from this lame list. Hockey Club is so stupid and what on earth is a Wasatch (I know what it is after looking up) but sounds super stupid for a name of a team.

It will be HC as that is clearly what the owner wants it to be. Many voters have pointed out that it is always near the bottom of the polls and yet somehow it is still there. He clearly isn't good at picking names and why on earth wait a season to pick a name when these are the best names they came up with?

 

[Ncit3]

That might be one of the ugliest logos I've ever seen.