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Utah team name polling opens, list of potential names revealed

It doesn't seem a popular opinion, but I quite like the name Yeti for a hockey team. The branding, the logo, the jerseys, the outreach to kids... all of it works for me.

...and while I love the name Yeti, singular, I hate the idea of using Yetis, plural. Fortunately, the ownership seems to agree with that.

(Last time around, I didn't like Kraken, and much preferred Sockeyes. A romance novel trademark issue seemed to put the kibosh on using that nickname, though.)
 
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i can't reconcile yeti in the singular as a team name. i reconciled kraken because it has many tentacles so it can serve as a metaphor for the entire team but yeti does not do that. i get that they don't want yetis either because of the current penchant for singular team names, so i think they just drop it altogether.

and there are no caribou in utah and i don't understand the logic of naming the team after an inoffensive ungulate from another region thousands of miles away. plus caribou are reindeer, which are perceived as cute christmassy things, and so that is what they will get called.

overall if they are going to go with a north pole santa theme, maybe they should go with "abominables"? that would be fun.

otherwise, i'd stick with utah regional mythologiy. has anyone suggested "skinwalkers"?

Maple Leaf said:
Utah Cappuccino
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i had seattle soy lattes.
 
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Ratbath said:
Should just keep coyotes if these are the only options they could come up with. Been many suggestions in this thread that are so much better. Frankly you could call yourself the Ice Fishers and it would be better than nearly all these official options.
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My guess is the Coyotes name is still owned by the inactive franchise. Otherwise, yeah, there are coyotes in Utah and it is better than the options they trotted out.
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Your own team is also named after a made up creature, the Jersey Devil.
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I can attest to the fact that the New Jersey Devil is real. I travel to south Jersey about four times a year for work, and my coworkers and I have encountered the thing......generally about 12:30 am......after spending the evening at McGettigan's 19th Hole.
 
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Should be the Utah Regulators. Could play Clutch as they come on the ice and have that scene from Young Guns play on the jumbotron

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Honestly, who in their right mind green lit the potential name of Powder. Do they not know about hockey players and their cocaine use?
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Ready for the Canes to trade them Kuznetsov
 
These choices are trash

Outlaws all the way.

I’d say buy the Yotes name but it’s so cursed why even put that on your new team?
 
I'm not even sure Arizona should use the name Coyotes again if the team is resurrected. I like the name, but it is associated with futility. It would have been like the White Star Line launching the Titanic II.
 
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The fact that "Utah Raptors" wasn't even an option is both unsurprisingly and incredibly disappointing. As another poster said, clearly the people making this list were 60+ year old suits whose knowledge of pop culture ended in about 1992. "Blizzard"? "Ice"? WTF is this, the IHL in the 1980s? Absolute bush-league garbage, and whoever even suggested that poop should be fired.

The least bad option is Yetis, IMO, though I'll still dig a trench and die on the hill that Raptors would have been best.

EDIT: They should just hoist the black flag and name them the "Utah Underwears".
 
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Baki Erg said:
The fact that "Utah Raptors" wasn't even an option is both unsurprisingly and incredibly disappointing. As another poster said, clearly the people making this list were 60+ year old suits whose knowledge of pop culture ended in about 1992. "Blizzard"? "Ice"? WTF is this, the IHL in the 1980s? Absolute bush-league garbage, and whoever even suggested that poop should be fired.

The least bad option is Yetis, IMO, though I'll still dig a trench and die on the hill that Raptors would have been best.

EDIT: They should just hoist the black flag and name them the "Utah Underwears".
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Probably because of the Toronto Raptors
 
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Ice Breakers wouldn't be too bad.

Also was watching the animals from Utah there are Coyotes in there. ummm

And badgers. That could be cool, the Badgers. Rough unbeatable animal. The cousin of the wolverine but even more badass. Even wolves and bears cannot pierce the skin of a badger.

My favorite name though would be "Salt Lake Citiy Saints".
 
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I am not excited about any of the option given in that pool. Brainstorming here, but what about the Utah Impact? Former CF Mtl’s name but I think its not bad?
 
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