Utah team name polling opens, list of potential names revealed

[Canadiens Ghost]

Keep Coyotes.
Still better than the suggestions.

Just looking at Utah resources and animals provide better ideas :

- Utah Miners
- Utah Black Bears
- Utah Rattlesnakes
- Utah Gila Monsters
- Utah Scorpions
- Utah Condors
- Utah Pinnacles
- Utah Ranchers
- Utah Black Widows

Your list is miles better.

 

[66-30-33]

Chat GPT could pick better names.

 

[ClydeLee]

It's the best looking name there!

I am disappointed there's no dinosaur based name, therefore, all my energy is to support the name the Utah Squall

 

[Cas]

I actually kinda like Utah Caribou

It's a very woody sort of name.

 

[ORRFForever]

NBA : Utah Jazz, NHL : Utah Blues? Oh wait, it's taken.

Utah Saints

 

[Goptor]

Not having Raptors there shows its just a bunch of old people running the show. Utahraptor is popular now and kids will go crazy for the team.

Its not the 90s anymore where the only dinosaurs that existed were in Jurassic Park.

 

[Kairi Zaide]

Chat GPT could pick better names.

 

[JMCx4]

I don’t get them going with just Utah in the first season. Seems like now to October would be enough time to roll out jerseys but I guess not.

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.

 

[66-30-33]

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Surprised the AI didn't tell you to stop yelling.

 

[93LEAFS]

Fan polling in the days of the internet seems questionable. I feel they are locked in on a snow theme. My favorite one of those was Freeze, but I like Outlaws the most overall.

Keep in mind, the Raptors got called the Raptors because of fan polling and Jurassic Park being the run away hit movie of that year and that was the era of mail-in voting I believe. The name ended up working out great and being unique, but these things can easily go side ways.

 

[majormajor]

NBA : Utah Jazz, NHL : Utah Blues? Oh wait, it's taken.

Utah Saints

I got you covered.

Utah Gangsta Rap


In all seriousness, Utah Outlaws is good. The state was home to Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. And I didn't like Utah Swarm at first (WNBA?) but it will lend itself to a cool team identity and fan identity.

 

[JKG33]

Powder has to be the worst name I've ever seen suggested for anything.

I would name my kid Boaty McBoatface before I named them Powder.

And somehow still a better name than Kraken or Wild

 

[Jeune Poulet]

Three quarter of the Utah list is made of singular names, and this new trend of singular names (Kraken, Wild, Avalanche, Lightning) is pure ass.

We already have four of them in the league and that's 4 too many. The league should just say no to that crap.

 

[JMCx4]

NBA : Utah Jazz, NHL : Utah Blues? Oh wait, it's taken. ...

Utah Hip-Hops. The logo could be a rabbit common in the state with stylish shades & lots of bling.

 

[Tkachuk Norris]

Mostly good names. Except Squall. WTF is Squall

I really love caribou.

Naturally I voted Squall

 

[JoeGarelli]

too bad there isnt an option for none of the above...

 

[Kairi Zaide]

Mostly good names. Except Squall. WTF is Squall

I really love caribou.

Naturally I voted Squall

Squall Leonhart

Right and wrong are not what separate us and our enemies. It's our different standpoints, our perspectives that separate us. Squall Leonhart is the main protagonist of Final Fantasy VIII. A cadet of the military academy Balamb Garden, he is perceived by others as a stoic and focused loner...

finalfantasy.fandom.com

 

[Jee]

Voted Mountaineers, Mammoths, Hive and Swarm. I think any of these four is decent.

People being a bit dramatic in this thread.

 

[dire wolf]

These are so much worse than I feared. Caribou is the only one I like. Except then I looked it up, and there are no caribou in Utah. LOL

 

[Zarzh]

Mammoths, Yeti, or Hive could work, Hive sounds dumb but could have a cool logo. Don't want Outlaws or really any of the other ones.

 

[Stephen]

Spend a billion dollars on an NHL franchise and the franchise names sound like something out of the ECHL.

 

[BB79]

too bad there isnt an option for none of the above...

Yeah really. Every single one of them is a dud

Mostly good names. Except Squall. WTF is Squall

I really love caribou.

Naturally I voted Squall

Squall, as in snow squall.. I guess you don't live in the snow belt

 

[MMC]

Except there are no caribou in Utah. And before anyone says 'well there are no Yeti's there either'; caribou are a real animal that are actually found elsewhere, like across most of the boreal forest and arctic in Canada and Alaska. It makes zero sense to call a team in Utah the Caribou

Are there penguins in Pittsburgh?

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Yeti or riot

No thanks.

Blizzard the best.

 

[Ncit3]

Yeti, Swarm, and Blizzard could fine. Went with those.