Utah Mammoth new name for Utah HC?

[NYR94]

Big if true

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Damn that sucks

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Kind of an underwhelming rollout, but it's okay. It's no Yeti, but we all got used to Wild as a team name, Mammoth will be old hat even to folks that hate the name by decade's end.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Mammoths would have been better, but this was my favorite of the finalists. I'm just relieved they got an actual nickname and not that Hockey Club amateur hour crap.

 

[Danarqhy]

Mammoth is a horrorbad name, way too gimmicky and too much of a mouthful. You want a name that rolls off the tongue easy, Mammoth is exactly the opposite of that. Think Habs, Bruins, Leafs, Hawks, etc. Hard names never stick.

I'm guessing people will just call them the Moths.

 

[Tawnos]

Ok, so why on Earth would they name the team the "Utah Mammoth" instead of "Utah Mammoths"? The plural of Mammoth is Mammoths. This is not a situation like "deer" or "moose" where the plural form is the same. Are they referring to the adjective "mammoth"? I don't think so.

The Kraken were able to get away with it because although the "Krakens" would have made more sense grammatically, "The Kraken" is a famous mythical beast that is almost always referred to as a singular creature. This is NOT the case for "Mammoth".

The only other reason I can think of is that words ending in "ths" are more difficult to say and don't easily flow off the tongue, but in that case...just choose a different name that isn't "Outlaws"....

Mammoth isn't just a noun. Not saying I agree with their decision, but it's pretty obvious that they want to tie it in as an adjective too.

 

[Ace Card Bedard]

Yeti was my favorite but apparently the cooler company objected?

 

[ITM]

Mammoth is a horrorbad name, way too gimmicky and too much of a mouthful. You want a name that rolls off the tongue easy, Mammoth is exactly the opposite of that. Think Habs, Bruins, Leafs, Hawks, etc. Hard names never stick.

I'm guessing people will just call them the Moths.

Or the Mamms. Lol - Yikes.

 

[rt]

Ok, so why on Earth would they name the team the "Utah Mammoth" instead of "Utah Mammoths"? The plural of Mammoth is Mammoths. This is not a situation like "deer" or "moose" where the plural form is the same. Are they referring to the adjective "mammoth"? I don't think so.

The Kraken were able to get away with it because although the "Krakens" would have made more sense grammatically, "The Kraken" is a famous mythical beast that is almost always referred to as a singular creature. This is NOT the case for "Mammoth".

The only other reason I can think of is that words ending in "ths" are more difficult to say and don't easily flow off the tongue, but in that case...just choose a different name that isn't "Outlaws"....

I think they did it just to irritate the type of people we all enjoy irritating.

 

[MrLunatik]

Mammoth is a horrorbad name, way too gimmicky and too much of a mouthful. You want a name that rolls off the tongue easy, Mammoth is exactly the opposite of that. Think Habs, Bruins, Leafs, Hawks, etc. Hard names never stick.

I'm guessing people will just call them the Moths.

how on earth is a 2 syllable name a mouthful?

 

[MrLunatik]

Mammoth isn't just a noun. Not saying I agree with their decision, but it's pretty obvious that they want to tie it in as an adjective too.

^^^ This.

There is also a triple meaning (which may or may not be a coincidence), that Mammoth is a ghost town in Utah

 

[MrLunatik]

Or the Mamms. Lol - Yikes.

Probably the Tusks

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Yeti was my favorite but apparently the cooler company objected?

To my understanding, there was pushback because the merchandise that would inevitably be sold by the organization in team stores would include things like coolers, cups, jackets, etc. And would be labeled with the Yeti name. But the existing Yeti (the cooler company) didn't want that overlap, as they already sell those things.

 

[MrLunatik]

To my understanding, there was pushback because the merchandise that would inevitably be sold by the organization in team stores would include things like coolers, cups, jackets, etc. And would be labeled with the Yeti name. But the existing Yeti (the cooler company) didn't want that overlap, as they already sell those things.

I think the smart thing for both parties would have been to enter an agreement where Yeti would make those goods for them.. but I guess it'd need a term to it and Yeti wouldn't want to lose out on their exclusivity on those products after

 

[DearDiary]

"Canadiens" cuz we'er in Canada... also "Canucks" ... we have a "Senate" let's be "Senators"... killed a bunch of people and took their land "Blackhawks" ... stole a hockey team let's be called the "Stars" nobody else has those

I'm sure the victims of Helene love the "Hurricanes" name -- at least Connecticut had a whaling industry at one point

What's the least threatening, most innocuous thing in nature? A leaf? Exactly what's needed to intimidate opponents!

Wild is non plural and is an adjective. It's not comparable to the other team names you've posted

 

[BB79]

I'm guessing people will just call them the Moths.

I will call them the demented long horned elephants

 

[Saga of the Elk]

Wild is non plural and is an adjective. It's not comparable to the other team names you've posted

wild can be an adjective, adverb, noun, a proper noun or verb

not saying it's a great name

and if the new team name is Mammoth the adjective then that is also bad

 

[Summer Rose]

I think they did it just to irritate the type of people we all enjoy irritating.

When we were the Coyotes, we irritated lots of people by simply existing as a professional hockey team in Arizona. I suppose this is one way to carry on that tradition now that we've moved to Utah.

 

[CanMerc]

Worst choice of the final 3.
The order from best to worst is…
Outlaws
Utah HC


Mammoth

 

[lakeshirts37]

Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, The Sundance Kid,, and Jesse James all have a significant connection to Utah. That's why it was a cool connection to the team and why Outlaws would have worked

Outlaws still sounds amateur and generic

 

[lakeshirts37]

Not a fan, would have much preferred "Rogues" or "Sidewinders" (yes, I know, weren't even fan vote options, but those were all terrible).

If it's going to be Mammoth, at the very least they need a new logo (not the fan-vote one, it's bland), and they need to have the tusks on their mammoth in the logo make a slightly subtle "U", otherwise what are we even doing??

rogues or sidewinders? big time yikes those are horrible

 

[StreetHawk]

Getting harder and harder to come up with a unique team name that isn't a duplicate and one that represents that city, vs some random name.

Kraken, Golden Knights (had to add the color), and before them Blue Jackets, Wild, Thrashers, Predators.

Nationals (not going back to Senators)

Texans (not going back to Oilers). Commanders for Washington.

NO returned name of Hornets back to Charlotte who changed from Bobcats. NO went with Pelicans.
Had Heat/Magic as expansion teams.

Whether you are NLL, MLS, PWHL, etc. hard to get that trademark.

Think they couldn't get Venom or Yeti so had to go down the list a bit.

 

[lakeshirts37]

Mammoth is a horrorbad name, way too gimmicky and too much of a mouthful. You want a name that rolls off the tongue easy, Mammoth is exactly the opposite of that. Think Habs, Bruins, Leafs, Hawks, etc. Hard names never stick.

I'm guessing people will just call them the Moths.

Not that much of a mouthful

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Why is it not plural? Lame

 

[MrLunatik]

Why is it not plural? Lame

Because it is meant to have more than one meaning. Like how the Wild is both about the wilderness and a wild animal... Mammoth is both a noun (animal) and adjective (size)