Utah team name polling opens, list of potential names revealed

[BKarchitect]

SEG would have to buy them.... and no.... the AHL is set at 32.... since Tucson is Utah's affiliate.....

Understood. I’m speaking way long-term. Maverick Center is a good home for a hockey team and if you are gonna have another local team it would eventually make fiscal sense to have it serve the NHL club. Calgary, Winnipeg, San Jose, etc.

 

[Mosby]

Nah Smith doesn't have the slightest clue. The arena demanded that Utah be part of the name. He's running a poll that leans heavily towards Avalanche IP and the typical ice themed names. The names sound like they came from people who have never watched a hockey game in their life.

What major pro sport names a team after another sport? Black Diamonds? Powder? It's completely ridiculous.

Smith owns the arena.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Understood. I’m speaking way long-term. Maverick Center is a good home for a hockey team and if you are gonna have another local team it would eventually make fiscal sense to have it serve the NHL club. Calgary, Winnipeg, San Jose, etc.

nope, not even long-term.... it's not the same ownership.... and 2) wouldn't that have been part of the transfer agreement if SEG was buying all of the franchise, which it didn't..... AM bought the affiliate in 2014... team was transferred to Tucson in 2015.... and just completed its 8th season in Tucson... this isn't the Avalanche where they bought the Eagles.... which is why the Grizzlies are their affiliate now.

3) West Valley City isn't SLC....

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Blizzard!!

Although powder would be funny for cocaine jokes.

Ruzicka back with the org next year?

 

[Hrkac Circus]

I heard they made the strategic mistake of hiring the same sweater shop as the PWHL, who've been waiting for their 6 teams' custom jerseys since last fall. Utah may have to go generic longer than one season.

If that’s the case, that’s brutal. The league should step in and set a deadline for a team name and jersey. I can just see it now, halfway through training camp Utah management tells the players “uh, you guys go out and buy a jersey before first game. Let’s all get some shade of blue maybe? Yeah blue’s good.”

 

[Hrkac Circus]

The Utah Blu...

Oh wait

Utah Swing? Utah Be-bop? Utah Dixieland. Oh wait, Dixie’s out.

 

[Mosby]

When San Jose Sharks joined the league top 15 names for the team were (in alphabetical order):

• Blades
• Breakers
• Breeze
• Condors
• Fog
• Gold
• Golden Gaters
• Golden Skaters
• Grizzlies
• Icebreakers
• Knights
• Redwoods
• Sea Lions
• Sharks
• Waves

Even though it was 90s back then, I think most of those names would seem ok today.

Rubber Puckies was on the list too. Dead serious.

 

[wintersej]

I actually really like the Utah HC idea. I was super disappointed when the Washington Football Team dropped that for Commanders. There is something unique and badass about it.

 

[flashy]

What problematic, offensive name are you rooting for?

It might be a shitty list but not once did I think to myself “hey this list sucks because it is completely lacking in stereotypical tropes”.

Weird way of twisting my words but whatever. I said it was generic as f***, as in these purposuflly are using the most bland names that have no chance of being offensive 40 years from now. so saying that I would be rooting for an offensive name now, is incorrect, because even if I was doing that, it would not be something offensive now, but at a later date.

Im happy i can clear that up for you

 

[dj Mahoney]

The Utah Unicorn

Weird way of twisting my words but whatever. I said it was generic as f***, as in these purposuflly are using the most bland names that have no chance of being offensive 40 years from now. so saying that I would be rooting for an offensive name now, is incorrect, because even if I was doing that, it would not be something offensive now, but at a later date.

Im happy i can clear that up for you

 

[Bondurant]

Most of the options are abysmal. I think they're angling for HC or Yeti.

 

[EyeofSaros]

Utah Sandstorm and their goal and/or entrance song is *drum roll* Darude Sandstorm.

 

[brentashton]

that is a brutal list of names. litterally a selection of "what will not offend people in 40 years". generic as f***.

Welcome to 2024.

 

[Foppberg]

I do like the Swarm.

 

[Wry n Ginger]

I haven't read through all 14 pages so maybe this was suggested already but a Seattle vs Utah game would be Crack vs Coke if they were named Powder.

 

[Hrkac Circus]

Flash forward 15 years. Utah HC is in game 7 with Metro Houston HC to see who will represent the West in the Stanley Cup finals against the winner of HC Quebec City City vs Atlanta HC United.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

I am hearing a lot of enthusiasm for a bee - centric team identity. How about:

The U-Tang Clan Killa Beez

in honor of the classic 1998 Wu Tang album "The Swarm"

that's Beez with a z ( brand synergy with Utah Jazz)

 

[Seattle Totems]

Smith owns the arena.

The state approved a bill to partially fund a new arena.

 

[evdog]

Someone suggested Utah Pronghorns and I like that much more than anything on this list. Fastest animal in North America, distinctive horn shape for logos, native to the state, etc.

Pronghorns is actually pretty good IMO.

Staying with the bees theme you could call them the Stingers. A friend of mine who is into fishing suggested Cutthroats.

The only one in the poll that doesn't suck is Outlaws.


Caribou, really? There are none in Utah. Glaciers? According to wiki there is 1 glacier in Utah that is less than 0.1 square km, lol. So it would have to be the Glacier. And Mountaineers? Utah doesn't even have a 14er.

 

[BruinsFan37]

Having "Powder" as a choice feels like a trap for trolls, and if it wins they can say "Well we tried to give the fans input, but we're gonna go in another direction" and Ryan Smith can name it whatever he feels like.

 

[kvladimir]

I'm very passionate about a particular vision for a team called the Utah Rogues, and one thing may have led to another, soooo.... well, here:

(Home and Road would be switched in the real NHL, that's just a me thing )

 

[ChadBigly]

They should be the Utah Saints, and they can use that song "something good" as the goal song.

 

[rt]

I …

- The team in the state right next door in his division has a brand that has:

…

A secondary logo of a Bigfoot/Yeti foot.

A mascot that is literally a Bigfoot/Yeti.

Those were both true a decade ago but not since.

 

[rt]

I worked for a beer league hockey team named the Outlaws so I just can't get behind it either.

How does one work for a beer league hockey team?

 

[DFAC]

When San Jose Sharks joined the league top 15 names for the team were (in alphabetical order):

• Blades
• Breakers
• Breeze
• Condors
• Fog
• Gold
• Golden Gaters
• Golden Skaters
• Grizzlies
• Icebreakers
• Knights
• Redwoods
• Sea Lions
• Sharks
• Waves

Even though it was 90s back then, I think most of those names would seem ok today.

Really? They all seem terrible to me

San Jose Waves? San Jose Fog? Come on now, lol