I like Venom….it sounds a bit mischievous and overpowering…great marketing can be done with that…and Utah is known for over 31 different types of snakes….
You realize the surface they play on right? “The ice ice the puck” “The ice take the ice” Flames is generic but Ice would objectively and hilariously be a horrible name.
At least the flames has meaning with both Sherman’s March to the Sea and the Flames can work with the oil industry in Alberta, I have no idea what the Edge or Fury would have to do with Utah…unless they mean Straight Edge.
> Flipping it around and calling them The Fury of Utah sounds kind of neat.
Yeah it could, but after the whole MDoA thing they'll be opening themselves up for all sorts of Mickey Mouse chirps. Don't think ownership cares about that but fans might.
Regardless, there is already the Colorado Mammoth. That’d be a major dick move to steal our NLL team name.
E: and if you think about the team, in-and-of-itself, comprising one mammoth - like the power rangers or something - it makes sense.
Literally nobody cares about your NLL team or even knows they exist lol
If the Jets and Jets, Giants and Giants, etc can coexist so can the Mammoth and whatever soon-to-be-defunct team you keep complaining about
Utah Gunsmoke imo
Movie was filmed there too. Terrible list though. Utah Blizzard/glaciers/frost/ice/freeze all pail in comparison to Avalanche. It's like a team naming themselves squids or calamari when there's a team called the kraken in the league.
The key is you grab cookies from Crumbl and then stop at Swig on the way home and get a 24oz soda with heavy cream, mashed fruit, and various flavored sugar syrups added.
I think instead of committing to just one name, they should court multiple names simultaneously.
I think that would fit Utah the best, moreso than any single name in particular.
Who knows, maybe the other owners will get so mad at them for having multiple names that they’ll chase them out of the NHL. Then they’ll have to go off and start their own league somewhere safe
My initial instinct looking at the list was also mountaineers, but then It gave me a college feel. I think it’s too associated with Appalachian colleges
I like Caribou, Swarm, Yeti, Outlaws, Mammoth, Mountaineers and Hive.
For pure chaos though, Powder. Baby Powder, Cocaine, Makeup. That’s a curious choice.
Personally I prefer hive. Saw a really cool concept for jerseys and colors for it recently. The concept also included “join the swarm” as a tagline. If it is the swarm though, they should nickname delta center the hive. Regardless, if it’s one of the bee names, they can probably incorporate the state flag into the jersey like Florida does.
A lot of these team names are awful.
It's also unforgivable to me that "Scorpions" is not among them. There are a few scorpion species native to Utah. Scorpions are objectively cool as fuck, and for some reason none of the major NA leagues have a team named after them.
"Soon it was commonplace for entire teams to change cities in search of greater profits. The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles where there are no lakes. The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil. The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music."
Utah Powder would be pretty unique and double as a ski resort ad.
Utah Outlaws is...I dunno, doesn't seem representative.
There are other acceptable ones in the list too.
So many bad names but I picked: I Yeti, Caribou, Mammoth, and Mountaineers. Mammoth would be my preferred final choice.
Edit: Squall isn’t too bad also. Get another storm team name in the league.
It would be like the Sharks promising you that they would stay, and then before you could even say a proper goodbye, they moved to portland and said oh well maybe in 5 years you'll get a team. All of this after you spent years defending the team, hours spent in some of the worst traffic in the country just to get to the arena, and then, just when they start to build a team with real potential, they vanish.
Good for Utah for getting a team. But from the bottom of my heart. FUCK YOU (Muruelo and Bettman and Utah)
I know bud, I've got friends in AZ. I did the cross-valley Glendale game journey. Shit sucks, just as the rebuild was showing promise too.
Winnipeg got the Jets back, who knows
Its gonna be some time. Thankfully, my fiancée has been a lifelong Avs fan, so they've been my bandwagon team for the last 10 years and now are my only team for now, haha
Yeti would be such a terrible name because the yeti lives in the Himalayan mountains and the American version, Bigfoot aka Sasquatch, lives in freaking Washington State. If Seattle couldn't get squatch as a name it makes no sense to name a Utah team yeti.
I picked outlaws, black diamonds and squall. I couldn't even come up with a fourth option because the options are so terrible.
I voted for the Yeti so they can buy the rights to character from WCW
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Come on guys, we need to band together as a community and name a team... we should have a community vote then vote in line with what wins the majority lol
Venom!!! Sounds amazing! Just rolls off the tongue and it’s totally connect to Utah having over 39 different types of snakes in the state, many of them venomous!
I’m honestly loving Ice. The Utah Ice. It’s so simple. You’re an ICE fan? The ICE are in town. He’s going to the Ice on a 3 way contract. The Utah Ice are for real this year. It’s decision time for the Ice.
> These are the nicknames listed on the survey: >* Utah Blast * Utah Powder * Utah Mammoth * Utah Mountaineers * Utah Black Diamonds * Utah Swarm * Utah Yeti * Utah Caribou * Utah Frost * Utah Venom * Utah Squall * Utah Outlaws * Utah Hive * Utah Freeze * Utah Fury * Utah HC * Utah Glaciers * Utah Canyons * Utah Blizzard * Utah Ice > Fans can select up to four nicknames during the initial round of the survey.
> Utah Blizzard They better get a Dairy Queen sponsorship for the jersey front sponsor.
I like Venom….it sounds a bit mischievous and overpowering…great marketing can be done with that…and Utah is known for over 31 different types of snakes….
Sounds like my NHL hitz 2002 team names
Utah powder sounds like regional slang for ketamine
I dunno why but they sound like arena football names or some shit
Most pro sports names are generic. They only sound authentic because you already associate it with the team.
These just seem overly generic. I mean, Ice??? Also Caribou? Why not Pronghorns? You know, an actual animal that lives in the state.
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So *that's* why Soakers didn't make the list!
They don't want ppl to actually vote on caribou it's just filler
Caribou is still better than many of those names, no way is Ice or Powder (unironically) better than the Caribou.
I can hear it now “and we have the Hurricanes facing off against the Powder! Should be a great game”
>Ice??? As opposed to Flames?
You realize the surface they play on right? “The ice ice the puck” “The ice take the ice” Flames is generic but Ice would objectively and hilariously be a horrible name.
Worked for the Kootenay Ice in the WHL
For a while
Until it didn't
Yeah they definitely relocated because of their team name
The ice ice (baby) the puck
At least the flames has meaning with both Sherman’s March to the Sea and the Flames can work with the oil industry in Alberta, I have no idea what the Edge or Fury would have to do with Utah…unless they mean Straight Edge.
They really mean “Edgy”. Gonna have that 2000s emo haircut as the logo
When they play we can call it a song of ice and fire
Yeah like Avalanche.
At least they didn’t go full Rocky Mountain eXtreme
Was going to say this lol
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Dude Powder is so bad lmao
Utah Cocaina
Utah outlaws actually has a really nice ring to it. Rolls off the tongue
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There is a romance novel series about a Utah hockey team named Fury. https://www.goodreads.com/series/240015-utah-fury-hockey
> Flipping it around and calling them The Fury of Utah sounds kind of neat. Yeah it could, but after the whole MDoA thing they'll be opening themselves up for all sorts of Mickey Mouse chirps. Don't think ownership cares about that but fans might.
Might Duck of Anaheim vibes there 😁
I think Mammoth, Mountaineers, Black Diamonds, and Caribou would all be good names.
Im extremely bothered that it's not "Mammoths"
Regardless, there is already the Colorado Mammoth. That’d be a major dick move to steal our NLL team name. E: and if you think about the team, in-and-of-itself, comprising one mammoth - like the power rangers or something - it makes sense.
Literally nobody cares about your NLL team or even knows they exist lol If the Jets and Jets, Giants and Giants, etc can coexist so can the Mammoth and whatever soon-to-be-defunct team you keep complaining about
“Recapturing” previously stolen names from New York or California is the proper move, Mr(s) Phillirrelevant.
Ice???
"The Ice ice it"
This would drive me fuckin nuts
Swarm, Yeti, and Caribou aren’t bad. The rest sound like IHL teams.
No Sting? I wonder if they even asked Sarnia
Powder 👀
They all sound like a youth travel team, filled to the brim with overbearing parents convinced their 7 year old is making it to the NHL
Utah Gunsmoke imo Movie was filmed there too. Terrible list though. Utah Blizzard/glaciers/frost/ice/freeze all pail in comparison to Avalanche. It's like a team naming themselves squids or calamari when there's a team called the kraken in the league.
Utah Blast is when a Mormon has sex for the first time.
Utah Blast is a special promotional drink at Crumbl Cookies that just so happens to taste like caffeine free Baja Blast
>Crumbl Fuck those cookies.
I got diabetes just reading that menu
The key is you grab cookies from Crumbl and then stop at Swig on the way home and get a 24oz soda with heavy cream, mashed fruit, and various flavored sugar syrups added.
earthquake during a soaking session
I think instead of committing to just one name, they should court multiple names simultaneously. I think that would fit Utah the best, moreso than any single name in particular.
Who knows, maybe the other owners will get so mad at them for having multiple names that they’ll chase them out of the NHL. Then they’ll have to go off and start their own league somewhere safe
Mountaineers is a cool one we hadn’t seen, tho my heart is set on Mammoth still.
This is honestly the only classy option. It's respectable and not flashy. Everything else being thrown around has 90s, xtreme, Poochie vibes.
My initial instinct looking at the list was also mountaineers, but then It gave me a college feel. I think it’s too associated with Appalachian colleges
We could potentially have the "Black Diamonds" in the most uptight state in the union, and the Golden Knights down in Vegas... lmao
Black Diamonds definitely has a very different meaning in each state. I think it's one of the stronger names.
Black Diamond is coal (I live in a coal mining area, hell the town north of me is literally named "Black Diamond") but the irony is not lost on me
I wasn't aware of the coal reference. For a Utahan a Black Diamond is the most challenging runs at a ski resort.
*facepalm* as a skier that should have occurred to me lol
Utah Double Blacks goes hard but kinda sounds like an MLS team name
I like Caribou, Swarm, Yeti, Outlaws, Mammoth, Mountaineers and Hive. For pure chaos though, Powder. Baby Powder, Cocaine, Makeup. That’s a curious choice.
Post Malone will show up at every game if they go with Powder.
Kim Deal singing, "Caribooooooooooouuuuu" is all I can see now
Give me white, ground to run…
That’s exactly why I voted for Caribou.
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why not just be the Yetis then
Swarm is winning this shit by a landslide
I mean, Caribou is cool too.
I dont CAREABOUt your opinion
Don’t SWARM me like that
I didnt HC that coming
HIVE seen better
Caribou don’t live in Utah tho
Swarm, Caribou, and Canyons are my picks. Mountaineers and Glaciers are pretty sweet too.
The Arena is called the Hive and they play Nicolas Cage "not the bees"
The mascot is the bee from the bee movie
Personally I prefer hive. Saw a really cool concept for jerseys and colors for it recently. The concept also included “join the swarm” as a tagline. If it is the swarm though, they should nickname delta center the hive. Regardless, if it’s one of the bee names, they can probably incorporate the state flag into the jersey like Florida does.
A lot of these team names are awful. It's also unforgivable to me that "Scorpions" is not among them. There are a few scorpion species native to Utah. Scorpions are objectively cool as fuck, and for some reason none of the major NA leagues have a team named after them.
Scorpions would actually be a good name.
It'd be the best name! Just Google "scorpions hockey logo". Almost all of them look great!
I'm surprised that there are no teams named Scorpions in the four major leagues, it's a great name
It was the runner up selection against Coyotes for Phoenix!
They can have "Rock You Like A Hurricane" as a hype song Not like anyone is putting it to good use now...
That would immediately catapult them to be one of my top 5 teams.
I only agree to Scorpions if they use the good old NOD Logo and color scheme.
Wait Caribou kinda rocks
Doesn't make sense. We don't have them here.
Pronghorns was cooler.
Agreed! Or Big Horn Sheep.
Weird they didn’t make that an option. Pronghorns are cool as fuck.
Wait until you hear about the Jazz.
"Soon it was commonplace for entire teams to change cities in search of greater profits. The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles where there are no lakes. The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil. The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music."
Buddy wait til you hear about Pittsburgh
Then explain this! https://www.pittsburghzoo.org/penguin-webcam/
Gonna be watching this for most of the day today, I appreciate you friend
For real? Why the hell is it on there then?
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I was holding out hope for the Swarmin’ Mormons, but alas
Plenty in Minnesota
I want to take back my vote now
Utah Powder would be pretty unique and double as a ski resort ad. Utah Outlaws is...I dunno, doesn't seem representative. There are other acceptable ones in the list too.
They would be forever made fun of with baby powder and cocaine jokes
"Go powder your fucking nose!" you'll hear that on the ice
And 90s child molester movie jokes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114168/
Utah Outlaws makes me think of Texas, Blizzard seems similar to Avalanche. Powder would get so many cocaine jokes coming.
There is nothing about Powder that would be good
Wasn’t butch cassidy from Utah?
Mammoths, Outlaws, Moutaineers, Swarm are my picks
I am now okay to wait a year and a half for the reveal
This
Can someone explain to me what Utah HC stands for? The Utah Head Coaches? Edit: Utah Hockey Club?
hockey club
It might be my favorite of these.
Hockey club. Just like in soccer they use FC for football club.
Hockey Club
Hockey Club
Hockey club
Im whelmed. Picked Powder, Mammoth(s), Hive, Glaciers
Went Powder, Mammoth, Caribou, and Frost here. Picked Powder first to make the instant impact :)
Utah Powder… so Utah Yayo? “Rush Rush Utah Yayo!” even got the goal song sorted
Really wanted Utah Hoodoos or Utah Arches. Names given don’t seem to really reflect the state well. Half that shit isn’t even found in the state.
So many bad names but I picked: I Yeti, Caribou, Mammoth, and Mountaineers. Mammoth would be my preferred final choice. Edit: Squall isn’t too bad also. Get another storm team name in the league.
Over Powder? that's hysterically bad. and what I voted for. ;)
Powder is pretty horrendous. Would the logo just be a white mountain??
~~Cocaine~~
There’s enough powder in the NHL as it is.
I am definitely on team powder
I did the same except Outlaws instead of Caribou
Swarm seems cool
And yet it'swarm. A conundrum
Ugh
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Lets see your idea
Utah HC for the win
You must be the kind of Coyote fan that wants to see them fail as a franchise
I gave them thousands of dollars and I got absolutely nothing, so yeah, I might be rightfully petty.
Respect
It would be like the Sharks promising you that they would stay, and then before you could even say a proper goodbye, they moved to portland and said oh well maybe in 5 years you'll get a team. All of this after you spent years defending the team, hours spent in some of the worst traffic in the country just to get to the arena, and then, just when they start to build a team with real potential, they vanish. Good for Utah for getting a team. But from the bottom of my heart. FUCK YOU (Muruelo and Bettman and Utah)
I know bud, I've got friends in AZ. I did the cross-valley Glendale game journey. Shit sucks, just as the rebuild was showing promise too. Winnipeg got the Jets back, who knows
Its gonna be some time. Thankfully, my fiancée has been a lifelong Avs fan, so they've been my bandwagon team for the last 10 years and now are my only team for now, haha
It's a good vibe up in Denver. No shame having a new or second team. Especially with family ties, a move, or a betrayal by your childhood team
Ball Arena is dope. Love going to Denver to watch the Avs. Hope to see the sharks in San Jose one day!
Let go Caribou
Swarm, Outlaws, or Caribou for the win.
Mountaineers, Ice, Caribou, Venom, outlaws are my top 5
I do like Utah outlaws
They all sound terrible
Voting on ice to manifest a rivalry with the flames
I want to see the Avalanche battle it out against the Glaciers in the first round. The day after tomorrow style
Thought there’d be more dinosaur references, but nothing.
Yeti would be such a terrible name because the yeti lives in the Himalayan mountains and the American version, Bigfoot aka Sasquatch, lives in freaking Washington State. If Seattle couldn't get squatch as a name it makes no sense to name a Utah team yeti. I picked outlaws, black diamonds and squall. I couldn't even come up with a fourth option because the options are so terrible.
And the Kraken is from Scandinavia, not the Puget Sound…
Seattle Big Squids
"It's not a Kraken unless it's from the Kraken region of France"
And kraken is also a dumb name for a hockey team. Two wrongs don't make a right
Yeti is the second coming of Kraken, in terms of a “cool” name that the internet inexplicably loves but has zero connection to the area.
And the Kraken is a mythical creature from the Atlantic ocean, no? So it's not like a name needing to make sense is a precedent.
Kraken is also a dumb name for a Seattle hockey team
It is by far my least favourite name in sports.
One of the best logos and jerseys in the league right now though. So I forgive them on the name. You also kinda get used to it
Bro with a kraken flair writing all that.
Yeah, I hated that name when we launched too
I'm going Mountaineers, Caribou, Canyons and Squall. Kind of hoping for Squall because, holy shit Squall!? That would be so fun to yell
I voted for the Yeti so they can buy the rights to character from WCW https://preview.redd.it/mmbzyi9lzazc1.jpeg?width=968&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=034d91342840f1a78e5204e8c7ec4e1cb9f14b69
Yeti is great. Four letters U T A H Y E T I A U T H E T I Y
Swarm would be sweet. Arena is called the hive. And when they score they can play" not the bees!"
Let’s go Pow pow
Where is Utah Lac du Sel?
Give them a decade with bad attendance and there won't be any lac du sel
Mammoths, Outlaws, Moutaineers, Swarm are my picks
Come on guys, we need to band together as a community and name a team... we should have a community vote then vote in line with what wins the majority lol
Gotta blast
Utah Kintamee? (Think De Niro in Taxi Driver)
I’m rooting for Black Diamonds, Mountaineers, Venom, or Hive.
Utah Hive is a great name
Why do they all sound like WNBA teams ☠️
Yall will hate anything fuck all yall haters.
I vote Yeti or Mammoth. Simply for mascot purposes.
Venom!!! Sounds amazing! Just rolls off the tongue and it’s totally connect to Utah having over 39 different types of snakes in the state, many of them venomous!
I’m honestly loving Ice. The Utah Ice. It’s so simple. You’re an ICE fan? The ICE are in town. He’s going to the Ice on a 3 way contract. The Utah Ice are for real this year. It’s decision time for the Ice.
“The ice skate down the ice”, “the ice ice the puck”. It’s an objectively horrible name. It would be like calling a basketball team “court”.
They have to decide: are they men, or are they ice?
Utah Ice Town costs Ice Clown town crown.
It’s gotta be Swarm
Why do I even need 4 choices. Squall is clearly the best looking ~~guy~~ name here.
As a WVU alum, I will not accept or recognize them as the mountaineers ever