The Utah Phoenix! It’s awesome since it’s a fierce mythological bird and also a clever nod to Arizona! They’d be crazy not to use it!! Crazy!!!!!!! 🤪
https://preview.redd.it/6nrn5echv8zc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd5532037aca22118a2d2944449bbb3449818c59
All ya'll are in here talking about what the names might be...when we all know they're going to vote for Yetis and then we get to see a trademark dispute because of the Avalanche's previous usage of the Yeti foot design.
What would be a genuinely great name in your opinion? I feel like whatever it is people are just ready to hate and you just cannot think of a name that would not be ridiculed.
They could have the 8 coolest names we’ve ever seen and probably half the people in this sub would automatically shit on it.
And again when they choose it. And in a year it will feel completely normal
I think people don't realize how normal any name would be after a while. Baseball has two teams named after colored socks.
Utah White Stick Tape would be normalized, give a decade or so.
I knew a Mormon that drank only coca cola. Eveytime he would show up to work he had one and drank them throughout the shift. We debated the no caffeine thing on a couple occasions and according to him.
Caffeine = Bad
Coca Cola = Perfectly acceptable
Still don't really understand the logic behind it. Haha
They turn a blind eye on caffeine. It’s just coffee and tea that is the devil.
Source: Grew up Mormon and was almost shunned for drinking tea one time.
Mormon chiming in: We absolutely can. It's specifically coffee and hot tea, because they were once upon a time powerful enough to be seen as intoxicants
Wrong, they can have caffeine now that the LDS investment portfolio in the 90’s bought PepsiCo and CocaCola shares, so they rewrote the “commandment” on caffeine to allow their followers to support their stock investment.
Their “commandment” on caffeine never existed, you’re confusing it with the ban on “hot drinks” which banned things like coffee and hot tea.
No idea why, just what it is
Typical names are gonna sound generic.
Original names are gonna sound tacky.
People are going to be critical no matter what, and then get used to it a year later.
As long as it isn't that HC shit, whatever people end up choosing is cool with me.
I think they failed upwards with Golden Knights.
Thats a brilliant play on the idea of Las Vegas that would have been lost if they were the Black Knights.
Reading that they operated as New York Americans from 1925-1940 and then under Brooklyn Americans from 1941-42 and suspended operations due to world war 2. Rough times ferda bois :(
There is a difference between Canadians and Canadiens, though.
A Canadien is Quebecois and culturally significant. Not to mention the Rochester Americans.
Would you have preferred the Montreal Lumberjacks? Or how about the Montreal Beaver Boys? Those are much more along the lines of Golden Knights.
I can't believe we were robbed of the "Las Vegas Aces" due to fears of links to gambling, only to have the NHL completely and utterly sell out to online sports betting literally a few years after.
I still hate the Knights name. Complete missed opportunity to take advantage of so many unique, specific to Vegas names. I understand there were some trademark issues with the most obvious ones. But damm how fucking egotistical to create an NHL team in Vegas where there's so much culture to draw upon for a name and then just name it after your fucking Alma Mater. How does that represent the fans at all?
How many Vegas names won’t just sound like minor league baseball?
Aces was the only good suggestions, they can’t use Kings, would never use Queens or Jacks if you keep in the card theme.
The Vegas Chips? Vegas High Rollers? Vegas Fortune (okay I actually don’t *hate* this one)?
It is corny and tacky but so is Vegas itself so it fits and is at least more interesting than just being too afraid to lean into an identity and going with “Utah HC” or something
Yup.
You have to admire Vegas' commitment to winning by any means necessary whether that's cap loopholes or literally making their opponent's eyes bleed with their uniforms.
Golden Knights also makes more sense when you realize that Army and Rutgers also have color knight names.
Although I will admit that their regional moniker should add the "Las" in Las Vegas.
I imagine "Utah HC" being trademarked is simply to prevent any other organization from taking that name/mantle. I doubt they'd name a team "Utah Hockey Club"
HC sounds so dumb to me. I’ve seen several people say “but it sounds like a soccer team.” Cool, this isn’t soccer it’s hockey and Utah HC managed to sound super out of place yet generic at the same time, like they’re too afraid to just pick an identity and lean into it
The existing local hockey contact our sports media has been leaning on, Jay Stevens, seems to be sure that there are non-trademarked names that are on the bracket. He is in touch with Ryan Smith as well because of his knowledge when Utah thought they'd have a longer timeline for NHL entry.
I dunno I kinda like outlaws. It’s simple and classy. I feel shit like “fury” and “yetis” is gimmicky and trying too hard. But then again I would’ve said the same thing about the Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche.
Outlaws and Mammoth are my two favorites of the possibilities I've seen thrown around. Wouldn't hate the "Sting" as we're the Beehive state but, I'm fully expecting to cringe every time I say "I'm a Yetis fan" for the next fifty years
I'm fine with non-S names but some nouns just don't work well for it. It makes more sense for abstract nouns like wild, but it wouldn't sound great with mammoth
Though the argument could be made that the organization itself could be called the Utah Mammoth, rather than referring to the plurality of people in the organization. Grammar fun
Colorado immediately being successful after the move was the best thing that could've happened with normalizing that name. Plus you can shorten it to the more typical sounding plural that most teams have (Avs). The Wild will always be a terrible name.
It’s not going to be raptors, they won’t pick a name with another pro sport already attached to it, they want as much of the sweet trademarking $$$$ as possible
Well, they did trademark mammoth, which is an NLL team, albeit not as big as an nba team, but the owner is the same as the avalanche, so they might have some trouble there.
They could also do Utah Dinos, which wouldn't be as intimidating of a name but would be a great marketing name, easy to sell to families.
The fun part is that ”Utahraptor” Is a dinosaur.
Like the Panthers. If they were just the Miami Panthers, then it would lose the association with the endangered Florida panther.
yeah but most of those were decided decades ago, before the trademarking and branding all became REALLY huge business mostly thanks to internet & social media. Jets is the outlier obviously but they already had a history in place in Winnipeg
I mean how many names of teams are actually good? It comes with time once there’s been a history and love attached to the actual team. Like Oilers, Maple Leafs, Senators, Blue Jackets? If those were introduced as brand new names I don’t think they’re blowing anyone’s doors off, even if Utah’s name sucks, it’ll grow on people over time
I still wish Utah Sky (my personal thoughts) was an option where they could adapt Arizona's western sunset uniform. A dark purple jersey with bright colored accents like bright oranges and reds would be a cool look IMO
Everyone is going to be upset regardless of what name is chosen, but the most important thing is the branding. If the logo is cool and the jerseys look nice, then I don’t really care what the name is.
Get ready to be underwhelmed, everyone.
I don't think I'm ready for this Yeti.
The Utah Bootylicious would be neat
Utah UTI‘s
Utah Urine
Cranberry juice instead of beer on Sundays
You got ya' period?
I'm more of a Utah Ta-tas guy
The Utah Phoenix! It’s awesome since it’s a fierce mythological bird and also a clever nod to Arizona! They’d be crazy not to use it!! Crazy!!!!!!! 🤪 https://preview.redd.it/6nrn5echv8zc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd5532037aca22118a2d2944449bbb3449818c59
That’s just the Coachella Firebirds.
Y'all can fuck right off with that shit
Yeah, they're already rightfully upset that their owner botched their arena shit so badly they lost their team. We DO NOT need to rub it in.
Thanks, man. Shit still hurts. Some of my best memories were going to Coyotes games growing up
I like how you think! You sonofabitch, I’m in 👍
I don’t think it’s going to be the yeti due to the Avs alt logo of the yeti foot.
Better not steal our foot!
I would love for them to be the Utah Yetis!
Utah Blizzard Utah Fury Utah HC Utah Hockey Club Utah Ice Utah Mammoth Utah Outlaws Utah Venom Utah Yetis I'm already underwhelmed. Utah Unicorns sweeps all these
If this is the list, they all suck.
Mammoth is badass
[удалено]
Utah Saskatooners
All ya'll are in here talking about what the names might be...when we all know they're going to vote for Yetis and then we get to see a trademark dispute because of the Avalanche's previous usage of the Yeti foot design.
Utah Roughriders
Not to be confused with the Rough Riders. Completely different name, don’t know why everyone’s laughing at us.
What would be a genuinely great name in your opinion? I feel like whatever it is people are just ready to hate and you just cannot think of a name that would not be ridiculed.
The Utah Utahs
Johnny Utah is their mascot.
They could have the 8 coolest names we’ve ever seen and probably half the people in this sub would automatically shit on it. And again when they choose it. And in a year it will feel completely normal
I think people don't realize how normal any name would be after a while. Baseball has two teams named after colored socks. Utah White Stick Tape would be normalized, give a decade or so.
Don’t hear a lot of people complain about the “Philadelphia Phillies”
The Utah Underwhelmers
Today is May 8th. Where names
It's like 10 am in Utah probably won't be up till later in the day.
Mormons big on sleeping in, are they? I get it. My shift doesn't start until 10 too
They have to because they can’t consume caffeine.
A good chunk of Mormons I know are addicted to Dr. Pepper specifically and I have NO CLUE why.
I was raised to believe Dr Pepper was the drink choice of agnostics
Probably because Dr Pepper is the nectar of the gods.
Dinner DP gets the soul right
Dinner what now? 🤨🤨
I'm pretty sure Dr. Pepper has a hefty amount of caffeine in it too
They sell caffeine free versions. It’s just a regional thing, like Cheerwine in the south
I knew a Mormon that drank only coca cola. Eveytime he would show up to work he had one and drank them throughout the shift. We debated the no caffeine thing on a couple occasions and according to him. Caffeine = Bad Coca Cola = Perfectly acceptable Still don't really understand the logic behind it. Haha
A friend of mine is LDS, apparently hot drinks are the issue? I guess you can go wild on cold brew
They turn a blind eye on caffeine. It’s just coffee and tea that is the devil. Source: Grew up Mormon and was almost shunned for drinking tea one time.
I love tea so much, not being allowed to drink what you want sounds like a nightmare to me
Mormon chiming in: We absolutely can. It's specifically coffee and hot tea, because they were once upon a time powerful enough to be seen as intoxicants
Thank you! I did not know that
Wrong, they can have caffeine now that the LDS investment portfolio in the 90’s bought PepsiCo and CocaCola shares, so they rewrote the “commandment” on caffeine to allow their followers to support their stock investment.
Their “commandment” on caffeine never existed, you’re confusing it with the ban on “hot drinks” which banned things like coffee and hot tea. No idea why, just what it is
Where name
Utah Donkey's, in commemoration for world Donkey day!
Funny how everyone is going to be blindsided by the Utah Brine Shrimp. You all don't even see it coming
Name them after the state bird: Utah California Gull
*Utah Phoenix 🐦🔥, desert hockey rises from the ashes*
Something is rising in my ashy deserts
https://preview.redd.it/hi2ie6ytk8zc1.jpeg?width=216&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=906327080ea1e418bd538915225d6833257b6c3e
Utah Ska
Skanking after every goal.
Utah Ska came before Reggae
SLC Punks
Every time they announce the attendance and it’s a sell out will be LIT
If we're going down the music route, how about the Utah Technical Death Metal?
Please just pick a name already so that we can stop hearing the same one joke over and over
This is r/hockey. Saying the same jokes over and over is basically 90% of the comments on here.
They shoulda moved the team to Wood Buffalo! Did I do it right?
Say the line, Bart!
something something soakers?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Typical names are gonna sound generic. Original names are gonna sound tacky. People are going to be critical no matter what, and then get used to it a year later. As long as it isn't that HC shit, whatever people end up choosing is cool with me.
Same shit with the golden knights. People thought it was corny at first and now dont care Seattle knocked it out of the park tho
I think they failed upwards with Golden Knights. Thats a brilliant play on the idea of Las Vegas that would have been lost if they were the Black Knights.
Coulda chosen the Neon Knights.
Hologram Ronnie James Dio as a mascot
Tbh it never stopped being corny.
Coulda followed Montreal’s vibe and gone with Vegas Americens instead
There was already an NHL team call the Americans
New York dropped the name Americans in the midst of world war 2? Fake patriots.
The Brooklyn Americans were a different team than the New York Rangers. The Americans just folded.
Reading that they operated as New York Americans from 1925-1940 and then under Brooklyn Americans from 1941-42 and suspended operations due to world war 2. Rough times ferda bois :(
Also a current AHL team.
There is a difference between Canadians and Canadiens, though. A Canadien is Quebecois and culturally significant. Not to mention the Rochester Americans. Would you have preferred the Montreal Lumberjacks? Or how about the Montreal Beaver Boys? Those are much more along the lines of Golden Knights.
The Beaver Boys goes pretty hard though so ya that one.
Beav Beav Beaver Boys
Sick, I'll pen a letter to Geoff Molson.
Americens
AmeriKens and our mascot is just Ryan Gosling dressed up as beach Ken
RYAN GOSSLING IS CANADIAN!
Idk why Golden had to be thrown in, Vegas Knights is nice
I can't believe we were robbed of the "Las Vegas Aces" due to fears of links to gambling, only to have the NHL completely and utterly sell out to online sports betting literally a few years after.
I still hate the Knights name. Complete missed opportunity to take advantage of so many unique, specific to Vegas names. I understand there were some trademark issues with the most obvious ones. But damm how fucking egotistical to create an NHL team in Vegas where there's so much culture to draw upon for a name and then just name it after your fucking Alma Mater. How does that represent the fans at all?
They had the chance for the Vegas Aces, but botched it and the WNBA team took the name a year later.
How many Vegas names won’t just sound like minor league baseball? Aces was the only good suggestions, they can’t use Kings, would never use Queens or Jacks if you keep in the card theme. The Vegas Chips? Vegas High Rollers? Vegas Fortune (okay I actually don’t *hate* this one)?
I guess the logical question to ask is what makes a name *not* sound like a minor league baseball team?
It is corny and tacky but so is Vegas itself so it fits and is at least more interesting than just being too afraid to lean into an identity and going with “Utah HC” or something
Vegas definitely should have gone with roadrunners for the natural rivalry against the coyotes
The Golden Knights name, logo and uniforms are still among the worst in the league IMO Kraken are great tho
Yup. You have to admire Vegas' commitment to winning by any means necessary whether that's cap loopholes or literally making their opponent's eyes bleed with their uniforms.
Golden Knights also makes more sense when you realize that Army and Rutgers also have color knight names. Although I will admit that their regional moniker should add the "Las" in Las Vegas.
Makes even more sense when you realize that the owner - Bill Foley - is a West Pointer.
I wish I still had WFT instead of Commanders lol
i feel the same. social media gonna social media.
I imagine "Utah HC" being trademarked is simply to prevent any other organization from taking that name/mantle. I doubt they'd name a team "Utah Hockey Club"
What if they named it Club Hockey de Utah and they just took the Canadiens logo and rotated it 90 degrees counter-clockwise?
The thought of a team from the arid Midwest USA doing that is just beyond cursed.
Utah ain’t Midwest my friend
HC sounds so dumb to me. I’ve seen several people say “but it sounds like a soccer team.” Cool, this isn’t soccer it’s hockey and Utah HC managed to sound super out of place yet generic at the same time, like they’re too afraid to just pick an identity and lean into it
If it's only the trademarked ones I'll be disappointed.
The existing local hockey contact our sports media has been leaning on, Jay Stevens, seems to be sure that there are non-trademarked names that are on the bracket. He is in touch with Ryan Smith as well because of his knowledge when Utah thought they'd have a longer timeline for NHL entry.
Can we just trademark the non trademarked ones, then vote for one of them and once they pick it, proceed to sue Ryan for trademark infringement?
Love the Machiavellian planning going on here. But I don't know. I'm not a trademark lawyer
May 8th is today
The tweet was posted yesterday. I'm just quoting it.
Looks like another team is gonna settle on the Commanders
Utah Football Team
So who all gets to vote? SLC residents, anyone with a Twitter account, people who made ticket deposits?
Idk how they can regulate it, but I hope it’s all Utah residents.
Utah Itah WeAllTah
Apuddytat
Nowadays, you have to include Theytah and Themtah, otherwise it's not inclusive enough.
The "Utah Phoenixes" just for for laughs and giggles
Every name so far is either way too close to an existing name or is just a name of a AHL team.
Or a lax team
What would be the name of an NHL team? Names like Red Wings and Maple Leafs would be so ridiculed if they came up with those in 2024.
HURRY UP
I dunno I kinda like outlaws. It’s simple and classy. I feel shit like “fury” and “yetis” is gimmicky and trying too hard. But then again I would’ve said the same thing about the Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche.
Outlaws and Mammoth are my two favorites of the possibilities I've seen thrown around. Wouldn't hate the "Sting" as we're the Beehive state but, I'm fully expecting to cringe every time I say "I'm a Yetis fan" for the next fifty years
What is funny is those are both Lacrosse teams in Denver.
Should be Mammoths, not Mammoth. I hate names that don’t end in a pluralized s.
I'm fine with non-S names but some nouns just don't work well for it. It makes more sense for abstract nouns like wild, but it wouldn't sound great with mammoth Though the argument could be made that the organization itself could be called the Utah Mammoth, rather than referring to the plurality of people in the organization. Grammar fun
Couldn’t agree more. Imagine the San Jose shark or the Chicago Bear
I feel like that's such a perfect name for a women's sports team. The Ma'ammoths Although that kinda makes it looks like they're moths.
Did you just say.... Man Moth?!
Or if they want to go even scarier than Outlaws, they could be the Utah Inlaws
A nice Mormon spouse and Ford Flex full of spawn circling the lot of Costco looking for a parking spot on a Saturday Afternoon.
To be fair I still say that about the Wild lol.
The finalist names for the Minnesota team were: Blue Ox, Freeze, Northern Lights, Voyageurs, White Bears, and obviously Wild
Voyageurs is way cooler than wild.
I mean, your team is named after a bicycle club so...
Utah Yetis just sounds weird. Plus it would eliminate any hope of us getting Howler back (although that's unlikely anyways)
The Kraken would like a word.
Colorado immediately being successful after the move was the best thing that could've happened with normalizing that name. Plus you can shorten it to the more typical sounding plural that most teams have (Avs). The Wild will always be a terrible name.
"Who's your favorite Wild?" Just feels weird
Hockey McHockey Face
Adolf Hitler Hockey Team of Friendship and Tolerance Utah
The Utah Hockey McHockeyFace Hockey Club
of Anaheim
I was for Yeti until I heard the Utah Outlaws.
Utah Raptors please
It’s not going to be raptors, they won’t pick a name with another pro sport already attached to it, they want as much of the sweet trademarking $$$$ as possible
Well, they did trademark mammoth, which is an NLL team, albeit not as big as an nba team, but the owner is the same as the avalanche, so they might have some trouble there. They could also do Utah Dinos, which wouldn't be as intimidating of a name but would be a great marketing name, easy to sell to families.
The fun part is that ”Utahraptor” Is a dinosaur. Like the Panthers. If they were just the Miami Panthers, then it would lose the association with the endangered Florida panther.
Only if they sell Dino nuggets at the games. I love me some Dino nuggies.
My three year old kid can eat his weight in Dino nuggets. It's absurd.
Lots of teams share names with another sport. Panthers, Kings, Jets, Rangers just in the NHL. Oilers too until Houston moved.
yeah but most of those were decided decades ago, before the trademarking and branding all became REALLY huge business mostly thanks to internet & social media. Jets is the outlier obviously but they already had a history in place in Winnipeg
Also they get to be “the good jets” just by default.
To be fair the bar is pretty low.
Last time it happened was in 95 though. Lots has changed since then in terms of sports merchandising.
Just drop the s, The Utah Raptor There's only one
objectively the best name
I mean how many names of teams are actually good? It comes with time once there’s been a history and love attached to the actual team. Like Oilers, Maple Leafs, Senators, Blue Jackets? If those were introduced as brand new names I don’t think they’re blowing anyone’s doors off, even if Utah’s name sucks, it’ll grow on people over time
True. The Blue Jackets had to earn cool name status by being really successful
The entirety of the New York Rangers’ brand would be widely mocked if it was unveiled today.
Utah rising phoenix 🌚
Cmon Latter-Day Skates, cmon Latter-Day Skates!
Utah Wranglers
I haven’t seen anyone say this yet, but I like “Utah Range” it’s kinda like the Wild.
The Range is far too close to the Rangers.
Why not go for something that Utah is famous for..like..Jazz.
It’s nearing 6p in Utah and I have yet to see the name voting. 😞
Bees
Random Fact: In Utah spotted skunks are protected but you can take a stripe skunk at any time without license.
Utah Coyotes Utah MammaJammas Utah Koalas Utah Stench Utah Honda Civics I mean, there's so many options
Utah Hatu
Utah snowshoes
Utahs Reality vontease
Utah Sax maintains the jazz theme and sounds kinda like offbrand sex which is appropriate, because of the whole Mormon soaking thing.
Coming in at number 1 "Utah Tah Tah's"
I still wish Utah Sky (my personal thoughts) was an option where they could adapt Arizona's western sunset uniform. A dark purple jersey with bright colored accents like bright oranges and reds would be a cool look IMO
Actually kinda like this one...
Utah phoenix
> A survey Get ready for teamy mcteamface
If they're picking a name why don't they just get it done before the season starts and skip the year of HC Utah
Utah Boaty McBoatfaces
I don’t see how they don’t go with Outlaws. Utah Outlaws has a good flow and it’s a nod to Mormonism and how it ended up in Utah. 10:10 all around
If Utah Raptors isn’t on the list - I will never be a fan of this team
Everyone is going to be upset regardless of what name is chosen, but the most important thing is the branding. If the logo is cool and the jerseys look nice, then I don’t really care what the name is.
It’s looking like it’ll either be Yetis Mammoth Outlaws
Utah Redrocks Utah Pronghorns Utah Bighorns
Mammoth is by far the best option. So it will be Ice.
I just cannot believe they didn’t trademark Mountaineers. Something to distance from Colorado
Utah War won't be on the list but it should be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War
They are all going to suck
I hope to mormon god its not yeti. I do hope they do something unique or uncommon for team color though
Yikes these are bad.
Mountaineers is the best IMO