Utah Mammoth new name for Utah HC?

[AlwaysSunnyInTampa]

Hockey Club is the stupidest name possible for a team and it's a good thing for history that it only lasted a year

 

[MrLunatik]

Hockey Club is the stupidest name possible for a team and it's a good thing for history that it only lasted a year

also we already have a "hockey club" in the NHL... Club de hockey Canadien

 

[AlwaysSunnyInTampa]

also we already have a "hockey club" in the NHL... Club de hockey Canadien

Yeah you're not wrong. But if anyone said anything else but "Canadiens" or "Habs" it would be like "What are you on about?" If Utah at least had like a nickname that ended up being "Mammoth" it doesn't work any less

 

[3074326]

Wish they would have went with Mammoths, but it's so much better than the most generic choice "Outlaws" that so many seem to be in love with. Outlaws sounds like a created team from Madden.

Mammoths are badass.

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)

Sounds great in theory, but it sounds weird in practice. Everyone is going to say THE Utah Mammoth, like Ohio State does with the Buckeyes. Guaranteed.

 

[wunderpanda]

mammoth hockey club of utah

 

[MrLunatik]

Wish they would have went with Mammoths, but it's so much better than the most generic choice "Outlaws" that so many seem to be in love with. Outlaws sounds like a created team from Madden.

Mammoths are badass.



Sounds great in theory, but it sounds weird in practice. Everyone is going to say THE Utah Mammoth, like Ohio State does with the Buckeyes. Guaranteed.

I really don't see that as an issue.

 

[Saga of the Elk]

Keep thinking of this song when I see this thread so I'm posting it:

 

[GoldenSeal]

Tusks make it like the inverted version of the Predators logo.

Seriously, their people couldn't come up with a better idea than this?

 

[GoldenSeal]

Given there is a solid presence of the Kachina and related people in Utah, why didn't the owners press hard and just bought the entire identity of the Coyotes?

 

[BHD]

Mammoths are cool but I don't understand why they want to make it singular, like we're all collectively one single mammoth
The trend towards singular names is annoying

The Colorado Avalanche. Then again, their brand is synonymous with playoff success.

I think people will embrace their name and logo - whatever it ends up being - if the team gets it done on the ice.

 

[Bures Elbow]

Should have been Raptors for the Utah Raptor fossils discovered there.

Great logo potential too.

 

[gstommylee]

Given there is a solid presence of the Kachina and related people in Utah, why didn't the owners press hard and just bought the entire identity of the Coyotes?

cause they had to get the former owner to actually be willing to sell the team to avoid the issue going to the courts and potentially having the NHL lose that court fight.

 

[GoldenSeal]

cause they had to get the former owner to actually be willing to sell the team to avoid the issue going to the courts and potentially having the NHL lose that court fight.

Damn good point. Thank you!

 

[Unholy]

Would be fine with it. Think people get used to it, won’t sound off like Wild, Lightning, etc

 

[MrLunatik]

Should have been Raptors for the Utah Raptor fossils discovered there.

Great logo potential too.

Mammoth fossils have been discovered there too and like others have pointed out, teams don't tend to reuse names of teams in other sports anymore because of all the copyright and trademark issues that would come with it. It's been over 30 years since a team used the name of another team in a major NA sport and that was when Carolina's NFL team named themselves the Panthers just weeks after the Florida Panthers played their first game in 1993.

 

[gstommylee]

Damn good point. Thank you!

as far as i know, there is no per bylaws of the NHL set a minimal requirement of seating capacity for the building that the team plays in. Avoiding having the issue ending having the courts involved was in the NHL's best interest. There are only two ways for league to have the ground to take away a franchise from an person. Criminally and financially. Twice sports leagues were sued over franchises and that resulted in franchises being awarded Seattle mariners and Charolette getting their NBA team back after it was moved to new olearns.

 

[kevistar]

I look forward to the “Utah took a mammoth dump” when they get heavily outplayed

Not gonna lie, this sold me the name mammoth. I'm team mammoth now

 

[Galactico]

Hockey Club was better.

 

[GoldenSeal]

as far as i know, there is no per bylaws of the NHL set a minimal requirement of seating capacity for the building that the team plays in. Avoiding having the issue ending having the courts involved was in the NHL's best interest. There are only two ways for league to have the ground to take away a franchise from an person. Criminally and financially. Twice sports leagues were sued over franchises and that resulted in franchises being awarded Seattle mariners and Charolette getting their NBA team back after it was moved to new olearns.

Wow, I didn't know that. Talk about a cautionary tale...

 

[gstommylee]

Hockey Club was better.

This isn't soccer where going something like football club is quite common for a sport brand name.

 

[TheLegend]

I look forward to the “Utah took a mammoth dump” when they get heavily outplayed

Smite us all you want....

You will never........ ever....... out park us.

 

[gstommylee]

Smite us all you want....

You will never........ ever....... out park us.

I mean doesn't that require there to be actually parking to avoid being out park?

 

[TheLegend]

I mean doesn't that require there to be actually parking to avoid being out park?

Well the arena after the reno will have a parking garage directly connected to it (after next summer per their video).

I've already taken steps to make sure @Three On Zero will never be allowed in.

 

[gstommylee]

Well the arena after the reno will have a parking garage directly connected to it (after next summer per their video).

I've already taken steps to make sure @Three On Zero will never be allowed in.

Make there there are Parking signs that say Utah such and such fans only

 

[Llewzaher]

They should have went with the Utah Snowbeasts

Or Utah Americans… then play the Canadiens