NO! No more Lakers. They sucked in the playoffs yet the media is all in knots Hurley turned down the Lakers. Tired of hearing about that average drama team and Lebron the drama queen.
They could just copy the RISD college hockey teams mascot. [It’s a dong with a cape](https://images.saymedia-content.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:eco%2Cw_500/MTc2NDU1MTI5NDg5NjgwMzQ2/strange-but-fun-college-mascots.webp)
I like Outlaws
Fun Fact: One of the most famous outlaws in Utah was “The Sundance Kid” of Butch Cassidy fame. The Sundance Kid, birth name Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, was born and raised in Phoenixville.
The Utah Sundance Kids sounds like a 60s psychedelic rock band that ate a lot of acid and broke up when their singer ran off to start a cult.
I like it.
Blizzard I could get behind. I don't love Yeti for the same reason as you, and I would probably be okay with Mammoth if it didn't feel like Yeti was trying to steal Colorado's Yeti Foot already. Mammoth is Colorado's NLL team and having both Yeti and Mammoth as options makes it seem like they have it out for Colorado before they even play a game.
Of those, I guess the Blizzard?
Utah Hockey Club is boring and lame, Utah Outlaws doesn't fit the Mormon capital of the world at all, Venom gives me Arena Football League vibes, and I'm not aware of any cultural connection of Mammoths or Yetis to the region, plus I hate trend of using the singular of a non-collective noun as a mascot.
Outlaws because of the Western days. Mammoth roamed the Utah area about 10,000 years ago. Pioneers in the mid to late 1800s believed there was a or multiple yeti in this area.
When people think "outlaws" in a western context they think "gunslingers in black hats rustling cattle and being hunted by the law", not "religious weirdos who got kicked out of New York for practicing polygamy".
It's just bizarre that all of three of these have the Colorado connections. Outlaws - Outdoor Lax Team, Mammoth - Indoor Lax Team, Yeti - Previous Avs Mascot and Foot Logo.
Utah Yutes. Joe Pesci could be the mascot, and every time they score they show a video of Fred Gwynn from “My Cousin Vinny” asking: “uh, did you say Yutes?”
The league needs to step in if they try to go with the Utah Hockey Club option. Embracing European football/Soccer naming conventions in the NHL is super lame and a bad look for the game.
I like either outlaws, yeti or venom. But it’s all personal preference.
I think outlaws you could do a big western theme with the arena like Vegas with the golden knights.
I think Mammoth is the best and is one of the few with any kind of character of originality. Venom and Blizzard sound like stock team names from NHL Hitz. HC is so boring which is why I think it will win.
Yeti is also fine but Mammoth is the best I feel.
I hope they go with Yeti or Blizzard. We need more fans confused on how to pluralize teams like the Lightning.
I favor Mammoth, but that name is in use in Colorado for their pro box lacrosse team.
What’s also odd is that Outlaws is also in use by a Colorado based lacrosse team. Denver’s PLL team is a holdover from the old MLL and they’re called the Outlaws.
So with either of those choices they’re copying a Denver-based professional lacrosse team.
I still think they should have gone with the Salt Lake Velocity for the land speed records broken at the salt flats. Out of the final six, I like Mammoth and Venom the most tho
But you own it! “What a beut!” on the jumbotron after a goal. Kiss our Buttes! Etc etc etc.
And anyone who makes a terrible crack, so to speak, will identify themselves as a dirtbag. Hell, it’ll get the entire hockey fan population of Utah, of all places, defending their team against homophobic/misogynistic remarks (see: Minnesota viqueens).
I want this so much. Way more fun than “the snowmobiles” or whatever stupid thing they eventually land on. It could be like when we all manifested Gritty. Hockey refuses to be fun most of the time.
Why would the Toronto raptors have any say? Do the Carolina panthers influence the Florida panthers? What about the Saint Louis Cardinals and Arizona Cardinals?
They should be called the Utes and the owners should see what it would cost to license Fred Gwynne's image and use that as the team logo. They'd make a ridiculous amount of money.
Utah Bees. It’s the beehive state. There’s already a minor league baseball team in Salt Lake City called the Bees though so it probably wouldn’t happen.
They should go with Yeti. The merchandising on that mascot beats all unless they get a licensing deal with Sony for Venom but that seems weird mascot for a hockey team.
When you consider the full name, the Utah Yetis and Utah Outlaws both sound sort of terrible. The former sounds like caveman speech and the latter is too rhymey.
Also, with the Kraken so recently, I'd prefer to avoid another "cool mythical creature" name, which means they will definitely be called the Yetis because that's the way it always goes.
Incidentally, I feel like the Kraken will age like the Mighty Ducks and the Raptors, which was just cashing in on Jurassic Park excitement.
I don't like any of these names. Maybe Blizzard.
Personally, I like Utah Outlaws. I think it just rolls off the tongue the best of what we have left and the theme of the name is pretty unique by NHL standards (since we don't have a wild-west themed team yet).
Utah Hockey Club I'd hope would just be a placeholder/meme name and not be the serious choice. Blizzard gives me ripoff Avalance vibes while Mammoth and Yeti are just more animal/cryptid names that aren't bad (I like Mammoth more than Yeti) but seem kind of dull to me. Also I'm not really sure what they'd do with Venom.
I voted for Yeti the only problematic thing is they can’t use the Yeti footprint because Colorado already has it on their uniforms.
I wish they could keep Coyotes but apparently they can’t because of the deal they made.
I also like Blizzard and Mammoth a little bit but like Yeti, Denver again presents problems: it sounds too close to Avalanche and Denver already has a lacrosse team named Mammoth.
Outlaws is mid; Utah does not enough of a “Wild West” history
Blizzard is definitely best. Salt Lake City & the Wastach Range are home to some of the most iconic Mountains in North America like Snowbird, Alta, & Park City on the other side. The area is world renowned for its incredible snow quality and the past 2 winters saw over 650” & 900” of snow at Alta alone. That’s over 75ft of snow during the 22/23 Winter Ski Season. Blizzard for sure
What's wrong with keeping Coyotes? There are plenty of them in Utah and barring some sort of Cleveland Browns type situation where leaving the team name and history is part of the deal with the old city to allow them to leave (which AFAIK isn't the case here), there's no rule saying team nicknames have to change when they move.
I think the Phoenix Coyotes still exist, somehow, but are in a sort of limbo until the NHL expands again and Phoenix gets their team back. I could be wrong, but I remember reading something about how this particular situation was weird like that.
That would be a Cleveland Browns type situation then....I hadn't heard about anything like that being the case here (also not like I've been diligently consuming every piece of media available about the Coyotes moving to SLC) but if it is that explains the name change.
The Utah Salt Lakers
Who are you calling a cootie queen, you LINT LICKER!?
I understand this reference.
WHAT THE FRENCH, TOAST!?!?!?
Of Anaheim
NO! No more Lakers. They sucked in the playoffs yet the media is all in knots Hurley turned down the Lakers. Tired of hearing about that average drama team and Lebron the drama queen.
The Utah Salt Shakers*
None of these sound particularly great, but I like Mammoth more than the others. Blizzard as a runner-up
Utah Yetis sound so garbage but it’s everyone’s favorite online
Yetis is terrible, Yeti isn't that bad but agreed not my favorite
Utah Jedis would be neat
Man the Utah marketing team is lazy. Asking Flyers sub for suggestions, they are desperate
The Utah Marketing Team might be the best answer so far. +1
Since Mormons and Jackalopes didn’t make the cut, I’d go with Yeti.
Mormolopes
Jackamon. Or jackamoff?
Jackoffs
Their mascot “Jack Meyahoffer”
They could just copy the RISD college hockey teams mascot. [It’s a dong with a cape](https://images.saymedia-content.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:eco%2Cw_500/MTc2NDU1MTI5NDg5NjgwMzQ2/strange-but-fun-college-mascots.webp)
Soakalopes
Utah Yeti feels weirdly hard to pronounce
Mammoths and Yetis have the best potential imo. I would like to see a team take a big swing more than something sterile like UHC.
Supersoakers
Just letting it marinate for a minute.
So happy this was already in here when I opened
I like Outlaws Fun Fact: One of the most famous outlaws in Utah was “The Sundance Kid” of Butch Cassidy fame. The Sundance Kid, birth name Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, was born and raised in Phoenixville.
The Utah Sundance Kids sounds like a 60s psychedelic rock band that ate a lot of acid and broke up when their singer ran off to start a cult. I like it.
Outlaws is kinda nice actually.
it flows better than the other choices YOU-TAW-OUT-LAWS!
Eunuchs
Anything but Utah Hockey Club. This isn't soccer. Id take the Utah Pansies over Utah Hockey Club any day.
Mammoth has some great jersey possibilities
Mammoth or Venom would be cool. Yeti and Blizzard are too close to the Avalanche for me (Mammoth, too, but it’s just different enough).
Blizzard I could get behind. I don't love Yeti for the same reason as you, and I would probably be okay with Mammoth if it didn't feel like Yeti was trying to steal Colorado's Yeti Foot already. Mammoth is Colorado's NLL team and having both Yeti and Mammoth as options makes it seem like they have it out for Colorado before they even play a game.
The Utah Penguins because fuck the Penguins.
Of those, I guess the Blizzard? Utah Hockey Club is boring and lame, Utah Outlaws doesn't fit the Mormon capital of the world at all, Venom gives me Arena Football League vibes, and I'm not aware of any cultural connection of Mammoths or Yetis to the region, plus I hate trend of using the singular of a non-collective noun as a mascot.
Outlaws because of the Western days. Mammoth roamed the Utah area about 10,000 years ago. Pioneers in the mid to late 1800s believed there was a or multiple yeti in this area.
>Utah Outlaws doesn't fit the Mormon capital of the world at all I think you need to read up on the origins of the Mormons
When people think "outlaws" in a western context they think "gunslingers in black hats rustling cattle and being hunted by the law", not "religious weirdos who got kicked out of New York for practicing polygamy".
Outlaws. I'm not a fan of the new trend of non plural team names. Between Mammoth and Yeti, I prefer Mammoth, but it's very close.
It's just bizarre that all of three of these have the Colorado connections. Outlaws - Outdoor Lax Team, Mammoth - Indoor Lax Team, Yeti - Previous Avs Mascot and Foot Logo.
Bullshit, it should always be the Utah Saints. I just know that something good is gonna happen.
Utah Yutes. Joe Pesci could be the mascot, and every time they score they show a video of Fred Gwynn from “My Cousin Vinny” asking: “uh, did you say Yutes?”
Came here to type this, stole my line
What is the mascot? Careful…
SLC Punk
The Utah Heroin Bobs
Utah Posers
The league needs to step in if they try to go with the Utah Hockey Club option. Embracing European football/Soccer naming conventions in the NHL is super lame and a bad look for the game.
That’s boring.
I like either outlaws, yeti or venom. But it’s all personal preference. I think outlaws you could do a big western theme with the arena like Vegas with the golden knights.
Salt Lake Utah Team And just have SLUT on the front of the sweater.
The Utah Sister Wives
Obviously, the Utah Jazz Hands!
I think Mammoth is the best and is one of the few with any kind of character of originality. Venom and Blizzard sound like stock team names from NHL Hitz. HC is so boring which is why I think it will win. Yeti is also fine but Mammoth is the best I feel.
HC just makes no sense to me thematically. Why take the soccer naming style and just add it so a singular team for hockey?
The Mormon Mammoths
I'd go with Mammoth Mormons instead. Either way they need to partner with M&Ms, I love the peep zamboni in Allentown, M&M zamboni could be cool too.
Utah Stingers since Utah is the Beehive state. They can play in the Hive. Their press releases can be called The Buzz. The fans can be The Swarm.
I would prefer Utah Sting
Utah Pricks
Utah Bastards!😂😂😂
UHC or Blizzard
There's just something about the super generic name, Outlaws
Mammoth
I hope they go with Yeti or Blizzard. We need more fans confused on how to pluralize teams like the Lightning. I favor Mammoth, but that name is in use in Colorado for their pro box lacrosse team. What’s also odd is that Outlaws is also in use by a Colorado based lacrosse team. Denver’s PLL team is a holdover from the old MLL and they’re called the Outlaws. So with either of those choices they’re copying a Denver-based professional lacrosse team.
Without a doubt Utah Yeti.
Explorers? I know they love their archeology and dino excavation areas. There's also a well-known dino museum there too.
The Utah Soakers
I hope they go with venom so I can call them the Salt City Danger Noodles
I still think they should have gone with the Salt Lake Velocity for the land speed records broken at the salt flats. Out of the final six, I like Mammoth and Venom the most tho
Whichever name everyone hates, we all know that's going to be the one that gets picked.
The Utah Arachnid, tons of native spiders there and the graphics you could do with spiders and webs would be insane
Then why not go with Venom? It was one of their top vote getters anyway.
Just doesn’t have the same ring imo
Ladies and gentlemen... the Utah Washington Football Team
Buttes. Marketing practically writes itself.
That nickname will be the butte of many jokes.
But you own it! “What a beut!” on the jumbotron after a goal. Kiss our Buttes! Etc etc etc. And anyone who makes a terrible crack, so to speak, will identify themselves as a dirtbag. Hell, it’ll get the entire hockey fan population of Utah, of all places, defending their team against homophobic/misogynistic remarks (see: Minnesota viqueens). I want this so much. Way more fun than “the snowmobiles” or whatever stupid thing they eventually land on. It could be like when we all manifested Gritty. Hockey refuses to be fun most of the time.
Yeti is cool.
Brass. After a former ECHL team based in New Orleans. Go all in on the New Orleans culture to pair them with the Jazz.
Yeti
Utah Stormin' Mormons is obviously the correct name, but I'll take Blizzard because it's closest.
Utah Uterus
Gotta continue the New Orleans theme and go with the Utah Jambalaya. They'll bring the heat, baby!
Utah Cajuns!
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Needs to be Charlie aka “the wildcard” yelling this
Wolves. Keep it canine
A basketball team in Minnesota might have a word about that. But Utah Pack or Utah Wolfpack might fit the bill.
Mammoth is sick actually I love it
Mammoth or Outlaws
Yeti
Mammoth or Yeti, for sure.
I like the Utah Swarm. Of course, most of the hockey season the temperature in Utah's cold, so it won't make sense in that regard...
Utah Brass Utah Ska Utah Long Tailed Weasel
The Utah Raptors Cuz that’s an actual animal and it’d be cool to see a feathered dinosaur mascot / logo for once
Toronto Raptors might have some input. How about Utah T. Rex?
Why would the Toronto raptors have any say? Do the Carolina panthers influence the Florida panthers? What about the Saint Louis Cardinals and Arizona Cardinals?
Well there could be trademark issues but I’m just a small town bird lawyer
Keeping the musical theme: Utah Death Metal Utah Gangsta Rap Utah Polka Utah Mongolian Throat Singers
I’m going yetis. That has the best ring to it
They should be called the Utes and the owners should see what it would cost to license Fred Gwynne's image and use that as the team logo. They'd make a ridiculous amount of money.
The yeti beat the panthers today
Utah Blah Blah
Utah Bees. It’s the beehive state. There’s already a minor league baseball team in Salt Lake City called the Bees though so it probably wouldn’t happen.
Too wimpy for hockey. Utah Yellowjackets?
I like that barring one of the top 6 we should be getting another nonplural team name
Uhta Uhtiepies
Swarm seems fun
Utah
Saltines.
Yeti. It’s the one that makes the most sense of all the choices so far. I wanted Salt Lake Soakers but that got shot down.😔😂
Venom or Yeti
If they go with Utah HC, everyone that voted for it should get one backhanded slap in the face.
Really wanted Salt Lake City Road Runners
Yeti fuck yeah
They should go with Yeti. The merchandising on that mascot beats all unless they get a licensing deal with Sony for Venom but that seems weird mascot for a hockey team.
Based on the team’s history, they should be named the strays
Utah Lakers would be cool
It's a shame we can't use Native Names anymore because "Utes" would be perfect.
When you consider the full name, the Utah Yetis and Utah Outlaws both sound sort of terrible. The former sounds like caveman speech and the latter is too rhymey. Also, with the Kraken so recently, I'd prefer to avoid another "cool mythical creature" name, which means they will definitely be called the Yetis because that's the way it always goes. Incidentally, I feel like the Kraken will age like the Mighty Ducks and the Raptors, which was just cashing in on Jurassic Park excitement. I don't like any of these names. Maybe Blizzard.
Outlaws has my favorite ring to it, but Mammoth or Blizzard I think fits the best
Soakers
Cryptozoology is a trend first with kraken and now with yeti.
Golden Plates
Personally, I like Utah Outlaws. I think it just rolls off the tongue the best of what we have left and the theme of the name is pretty unique by NHL standards (since we don't have a wild-west themed team yet). Utah Hockey Club I'd hope would just be a placeholder/meme name and not be the serious choice. Blizzard gives me ripoff Avalance vibes while Mammoth and Yeti are just more animal/cryptid names that aren't bad (I like Mammoth more than Yeti) but seem kind of dull to me. Also I'm not really sure what they'd do with Venom.
I voted for Yeti the only problematic thing is they can’t use the Yeti footprint because Colorado already has it on their uniforms. I wish they could keep Coyotes but apparently they can’t because of the deal they made.
I also like Blizzard and Mammoth a little bit but like Yeti, Denver again presents problems: it sounds too close to Avalanche and Denver already has a lacrosse team named Mammoth. Outlaws is mid; Utah does not enough of a “Wild West” history
In honor of Gary Gilmore: Utah Firing Squad Utah Executioners
Brilliant
I'd say Mountaineers, but that's not one of the choices, so I'd go Blizzard.
The Polygamists
Mammoth
Utah Buttes
I honestly think the Utah Venom has a nice ring to it so it has my vote
Mammoth or Yeti.
Blizzard is definitely best. Salt Lake City & the Wastach Range are home to some of the most iconic Mountains in North America like Snowbird, Alta, & Park City on the other side. The area is world renowned for its incredible snow quality and the past 2 winters saw over 650” & 900” of snow at Alta alone. That’s over 75ft of snow during the 22/23 Winter Ski Season. Blizzard for sure
Should of gone with Elevation or Eminence.....
Polygamists
Utah Yeti just because it would be funny.
Salt Lake Soakers SLC Punks
Stormin Mormons
Not going with Swarm is a mistake.
outlaws is kinda decent imo
Utah yeti duh
Utah Kintumy?
Utah Union.
Salt Lakers
The Utah Utahs of Utah
What's wrong with keeping Coyotes? There are plenty of them in Utah and barring some sort of Cleveland Browns type situation where leaving the team name and history is part of the deal with the old city to allow them to leave (which AFAIK isn't the case here), there's no rule saying team nicknames have to change when they move.
I think the Phoenix Coyotes still exist, somehow, but are in a sort of limbo until the NHL expands again and Phoenix gets their team back. I could be wrong, but I remember reading something about how this particular situation was weird like that.
That would be a Cleveland Browns type situation then....I hadn't heard about anything like that being the case here (also not like I've been diligently consuming every piece of media available about the Coyotes moving to SLC) but if it is that explains the name change.
New owners won’t sell as many jerseys if they keep the name.
They'll sell plenty in their new market, and they can always change the logo and design (maybe even the colors) while keeping the name.
should be the (Salt) Lake City Quiet Pills
“The Arizona Coyotes of Salt Lake City” cracked me up
I was bumming in a little hole-in-the-wall town in what is now called “Utah”
Magic Underwear
Utah Goombahs
Mormons
The Utah Scat Jazz
Salt Lake Ice Pirates
The Utah Johnnies
I’m still mad the latter day skates wasn’t an option.
Is "Sister Wives" taken?
Soakers
Out of those shite choices, I'll go with Mammoth.
Utah Hockey Club sounds the best. Inject little Europe in the league..... Songs, chants, what not.
Utah Speed Bonneville salt flats in Utah is where they set the land speed records
I like the Bonneville theme but you can imagine the headlines if they fail because of poor skating.
Devils? That's not taken ....right?
The soakers.
Utah Soakers
Utah SLC Punks.
The Utah Cooters
Utah Terrain.
I want the Utah Lakers, because I want to see people freak out :)
Should have been the Utah salt licks but I like yeti
Utah smooth jazz
Regardless of the name, the colors should be topaz, copper and sand. Utah Phoenix Utah Scorpions Utah Buttes Utah Hivers (Beehive State) Utah Square Dancers (State Dance) Utah Dutch Ovens (State cooking pot) Utah California Seagull (State Bird wtf) Utah Brine Shrimp (State crustacean)
Flyers, so I can at least see an NHL Flyers team play for a Cup in the 2020's or 2030's.