What Should we name the Salt Lake City Team? (Mod: stop with the religious comments)

[Malaka]

SLC I-15 Really Long Drives

SLC OhMyGodGetMeOutOfSt.GeorgeTheWindIsLikeAHairdryer&MyAirConditioningDoesn’tf***ingWork

 

[brentashton]

SLC OhMyGodGetMeOutOfSt.GeorgeTheWindIsLikeAHairdryer&MyAirConditioningDoesn’tf***ingWork

Alternate jerseys can be the Beaver Utah Dirty Truckstops. Ok Getting too local and specific for some I suspect.

 

[Lindys Lazy Eye]

Utah Blizzard.

 

[ManofSteel55]

The Salt Lake City Pepper

 

[Morpheus]

Salt Lake City Browns:

But Utah Yeti is what I’d pick.

 

[Regal]

Salt Lake Stanley Cups, No Not That One, the Ones White Women Love

 

[End on a Hinote]

The Utah Outlaws has a nice ring

 

[Marco 85]

Salt Lake Smithereens

 

[Perfect_Drug]

NGL

That Utah Grizzlies logo is pretty f***ing awesome, but it kinda feels like its stepping on the toes of the Bruins.

Also weren't the Golden Eagles the more recent team?

 

[Perfect_Drug]

My vote goes to

Salty McSaltyface

 

[dalewood12]

The Utah Salt Lakers

 

[Lunatik]

Something bee-related would be nice and would be topical for the area given that Mormonism has a long history of beehive-related symbology. Salt Lake Bees is already taken, though.

Utah Yellowjackets sounds solid, but having two -jacket teams in the NHL would be a bit much.

Utah Wasps would be too open for a joke despite the P part of the acronym not fitting.

Utah Hornets works, but "Hornets" is already more famous as an NBA team, so no need to second fiddle themselves when they don't have a history with the name.

Utah Drones? Eh... nah.

Maybe go a different route.

Utah Raptors would be neat after the dinosaur utahraptor, but again, second-fiddle to an NBA team. Lakers as well, darn you, LA.

State fish is a cutthroat troat, so Utah Cutthroats sounds badass.... but that's not really a mental image you want in hockey for pretty obvious and morbid reasons.

Eh, maybe something basic, like Utah Pioneers?

If I remember correctly the Salt Lake City Bees is their AAA baseball team

 

[JKG33]

The NHL losing a name battle against a minor hockey team is the most NHL thing ever.

Wait until you hear about the Vegas Knights

Salt Lake City Mighty Moose

Props for the WSHL reference

 

[danktopshelf]

The Utah Bees (state symbol of industriousness) or the Utah Golden Plates

 

[Lunatik]

There was a similar thread on reddit for baseball, I'll make the same suggestion here.

The Salt Lake Cities

But seriously, the Grizzlies is a great name, so is Golden Eagles, if the Coyotes moved there they could keep the name. Grey Wolves would be a good one too if the Yotes move there. Rattlers would be cool as their are no snake names teams in the NHL.

But Utah Yeti is what I’d pick.

I like how that sounds and it would allow for a cool logo, and if they want to go with Salt Lake instead, the Salt Lake Sasquatch sounds cool too

 

[Lunatik]

NGL

That Utah Grizzlies logo is pretty f***ing awesome, but it kinda feels like its stepping on the toes of the Bruins.

Also weren't the Golden Eagles the more recent team?

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The Golden Eagles were before the Grizzlies, they were the Flames IHL affiliate in the late 89s

 

[boredmale]

Utah Electropop

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Oh, I know the origins. There are some other weird ones. For example, the Lakers who started in Minnesota.

see also:

Indianapolis Colts
Los Angeles Dodgers
Memphis Grizzlies
Tennessee Oilers (briefly)
Calgary Flames

 

[Bozo Nicholson]

The Utah Jazz Hands

 

[JKG33]

see also:

Indianapolis Colts
Los Angeles Dodgers
Memphis Grizzlies
Tennessee Oilers (briefly)
Calgary Flames

Of all the shitty relocated team keeping the nickname from their former city, the NBA ones are the most egregious.

Grizzlies... ok that's a generic enough name that it's not completely awful.

But Lakers and Jazz? That's so f***ing stupid you'd need to have less than an elementary school understanding of the cities to think those are a good idea.

Colts? I don't know that Baltimore has any more ties to horses than Indy does. Oilers? Ok not great but again not completely awful. Flames were named in Atlanta sure but it's again a fairly generic name that it works with Calgary. Even the Dallas Stars is generic enough and they had the decency to drop the word North from the name.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

1) Gulls
2) Locusts
3) Pioneers

 

[Hoek]

Atletico Salt Lake, to go with Real Salt Lake. Just like Madrid has Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.

 

[WhataKnight]

SLC OhMyGodGetMeOutOfSt.GeorgeTheWindIsLikeAHairdryer&MyAirConditioningDoesn’tf***ingWork

Live in CO, hang in Vegas.

Can confirm.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

SLC Water Tigers

Utah Ice Jazz

 

[Dulind]

Jazz on Ice.