Utah team nickname/colors/logo, mascot (and related marketing)

[No Fun Shogun]

We collectively got used to the Wild, Blue Jackets, and the Maple Leafs in hockey (the latter even feeling the need to make up a claim that it's connected to a non-existant WWI unit rather than the reality that they're named after a pre-WWI baseball team), the Browns in football, and multiple pairs of stockings in baseball, just to name a few odd or dull names. We'll get used to the Yeti, too.

 

[x Tame Impala]

They should just keep it as Utah Hockey Club. It sounds formal in a cool way. "Yeti" is something i'd name my create a team as a 10 year old in an EA NHL game.

 

[Yukon Joe]

Hockey Club is dumb... but i also want to see them go one step dumber... Utah Sports Team

It's actually not that dumb.

Long story - I once went to Brazil - Salvador, in the state of Bahia.

There are two local soccer clubs in Salvador. EC Vitoria and EC Bahia.

What does "EC" stand for? "Esporte club" in Portuguese - or "Sports Club" in English.

There may well be other Brazilian soccer teams that use "EC" - I'm sure no expert on south american soccer clubs.

 

[Lt Dan]

They should be the first sports team to be a palindrome and be the Utah Hatu!


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[BKIslandersFan]

It's actually not that dumb.

Long story - I once went to Brazil - Salvador, in the state of Bahia.

There are two local soccer clubs in Salvador. EC Vitoria and EC Bahia.

What does "EC" stand for? "Esporte club" in Portuguese - or "Sports Club" in English.

There may well be other Brazilian soccer teams that use "EC" - I'm sure no expert on south american soccer clubs.

No. It’s stupid. I don’t care if majority of soccer teams do it. It’s stupid.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

We collectively got used to the Wild, Blue Jackets, and the Maple Leafs in hockey (the latter even feeling the need to make up a claim that it's connected to a non-existant WWI unit rather than the reality that they're named after a pre-WWI baseball team), the Browns in football, and multiple pairs of stockings in baseball, just to name a few odd or dull names. We'll get used to the Yeti, too.

Don’t forget a football team named for a meat packing operation, and a baseball team named after an arcane demonym (“trolley dodgers”) for a borough the team moved away from 70 years ago

 

[Slats432]

Yeti would be great. And considering I would identify as a hockey purist, I like cool names and colour. Love the Kraken, Golden Knights and now hopefully Yeti.

 

[Yukon Joe]

Yeti would be great. And considering I would identify as a hockey purist, I like cool names and colour. Love the Kraken, Golden Knights and now hopefully Yeti.

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@Slats432 I love ya baby, but I hate that uniform. Looks very beer league and very busy.

I do like Utah's colours and I think they could do something interesting with the Yeti name - but not that.

I'm just riffing here - but maybe just take the silhouette of the Yeti itself? White on black / black on white? Strip all the goofy-looking icicles and yeti footprints?

 

[Slats432]

Yeti would be great. And considering I would identify as a hockey purist, I like cool names and colour. Love the Kraken, Golden Knights and now hopefully Yeti.

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@Slats432 I love ya baby, but I hate that uniform. Looks very beer league and very busy.

I do like Utah's colours and I think they could do something interesting with the Yeti name - but not that.

I'm just riffing here - but maybe just take the silhouette of the Yeti itself? White on black / black on white? Strip all the goofy-looking icicles and yeti footprints?

Certainly that wouldn't be it, but the concepts lend to a great jersey and art. HC would be awful beyond awful.

 

[Yukon Joe]

No. It’s stupid. I don’t care if majority of soccer teams do it. It’s stupid.

It's not stupid - it's non-traditional.

If I was Ryan Smith I don't know that I'd stick with Utah HC (or Utah SC for that matter) but it would be an interesting choice.

As an aside on the Hockey Club / Sports Club kind of division... my kid plays minor hockey for the South Side Athletics Club. They just go by "SSAC", but "South Side AC" would have been just as valid.

That being said - I'll admit I prefer it when teams with the HC / FC kind of designation actually have the history to back up such a designation. SSAC supposedly goes back to the 1930s and a club that did both athletics and horse racing, for example.

 

[Sgt Schultz]

Don’t forget a football team named for a meat packing operation, and a baseball team named after an arcane demonym (“trolley dodgers”) for a borough the team moved away from 70 years ago

On that note, Minneapolis was known for lakes. LA not nearly so much. So we have the LA Lakers. That has been going on for 64 years.

What is the jazz scene like in SLC? It is synonymous with New Orleans. That is a 45 year disconnect.

How many cardinals are there in the Phoenix area? I lived there for a year about 35 years ago and I don't remember seeing one. I saw them when I lived in St. Louis. At least there is an excuse for that, since the team was not originally named for the bird but rather the color of their jerseys.

But, back on topic, Utah Yeti works. It's better than Hockey Club. Let's put it this way: if you play in Toronto, you are a Maple Leaf. In Pittsburgh you are a Penguin. In LA, you are a King. And so on. What the heck are you if you play in Utah this year?

 

[BB79]

At this point it would have made more sense to have taken "Coyotes" with them and if Arizona ever gets a team back, they can worry about naming them something else.

 

[barkovcanfinnish]

Utah Yeti is kinda lame to me. Mostly because I’m generally not a fan of singular names for sports teams.

I don’t really like Kraken as a name that much either. But the logo is nice. That helps a little bit I suppose.

Maybe if they have a good logo with it the name won’t be as lame to me anymore

 

[Nogatco Rd]

But, back on topic, Utah Yeti works. It's better than Hockey Club. Let's put it this way: if you play in Toronto, you are a Maple Leaf. In Pittsburgh you are a Penguin. In LA, you are a King. And so on. What the heck are you if you play in Utah this year?

Can’t you ask the same question next year? If the team is “Utah Yeti” singular you can’t really say a player is a Utah Yeti, you would have to say he is a “member of/player for the Utah Yeti”. Same as Lightning, Wild, Kraken, etc.

 

[Sgt Schultz]

Can’t you ask the same question next year? If the team is “Utah Yeti” singular you can’t really say a player is a Utah Yeti, you would have to say he is a “member of/player for the Utah Yeti”. Same as Lightning, Wild, Kraken, etc.

Well, I think he could be a Yeti, Kraken, Lighning, or a Wild. But what he couldn't really be is a Hockey Club. As you said, he would have to be a "member" of the Utah Hockey Club. The problem with "club" is that it is singular but defined, in part, as a group.

I can't believe I am going down this rabbit hole. If I work for Shifting Sands Engineers, I am an engineer. If I am in Congress, I am not a Congress. I am a member or Congress. I might even be an inmate, but that is a different story.

I got bored and looked up the plural of kraken, and Merriam Webster listed both krakens and kraken as the plural. Yeti appears to be singular, so yetis is the only plural I could find. For those into this stuff, the reason the plural for kraken does not need a trailing "s" is that it is a Norwegian word, and foreign words apparently often become plural without an s.

Now my head hurts!

 

[Hoek]

It's actually not that dumb.

Long story - I once went to Brazil - Salvador, in the state of Bahia.

There are two local soccer clubs in Salvador. EC Vitoria and EC Bahia.

What does "EC" stand for? "Esporte club" in Portuguese - or "Sports Club" in English.

There may well be other Brazilian soccer teams that use "EC" - I'm sure no expert on south american soccer clubs.

Not sure in those particular cases but a lot of soccer clubs that have "sports club" or "athletics club" type names actually do play other professional/semi-professional sports under the same name. For example, Boca Juniors (Club Atletico Boca Juniors full name) in Argentina also has basketball, volleyball, futsal, etc. teams besides their world famous soccer team.

While I'm not super excited about it, Utah Yeti is fun to say at least. It could've been worse, like a name with an unnecessary adjective in it like their neighbors have.

 

[BKIslandersFan]

They should just keep it as Utah Hockey Club. It sounds formal in a cool way. "Yeti" is something i'd name my create a team as a 10 year old in an EA NHL game.

Anyone who thinks like this should be rounded up and sent to Siberia.

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

Anyone who thinks like this should be rounded up and sent to Siberia.

I agree with his/her thoughts on the Yeti name.

 

[sexydonut]

At this point it would have made more sense to have taken "Coyotes" with them and if Arizona ever gets a team back, they can worry about naming them something else.

Utah Coyotes.

To be joined by the Phoenix Roadrunners.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

While I'm not super excited about it, Utah Yeti is fun to say at least. It could've been worse, like a name with an unnecessary adjective in it like their neighbors have.

Golden Knights is definitely better than just Knights. Has more personality. “Knights” sounds like a generic team in one of those old sega/nintendo games before they had the license to use actual team names

 

[daver]

I can't believe they haven't gone with the obvious:

The Utah Seagulls