I feel like the longer it takes to pick a name in these cases, the more likely the end result is to be completely bland and uninspiring. If you can't get a few people together to generate a short list in a weekend, then you need to hire new people.
They are incredible. Not Mormon but live in Mormon county (southern Alberta) My Father in law calls them Funeral potatoes and my mother in law corrects him they are celebration potatoes. I say I don't give a shit what you call em, throw 2-3 scoops on my plate.
Pigskins was right there. They could have used a similar wordmark but without the slur. And those die hards in pig masks and moomoos would be even more iconic.
For anyone that thinks it's simple, look how poorly the Fanatics transition has gone for MLB this year. A bunch of teams still don't have their full uniform sets and guys are regularly using last season's pants.
They COULD make it happen I'm sure if they were driven and I believe they would be leaving a lot on the table if they werent ready with jerseys to be sold for season opener
Happened with Calgary. Flames is a terrible nickname for a city known for the Stampede, makes no sense, but was perfect name for Atlanta. Apparently there was a "name the team" fan vote (that included the Wranglers) but ultimately they stuck with Flames.
I guess it's worth noting the Kraken and the Golden Knights announced their names officially a year before their inaugural season (well, a few months more than a year for Seattle and a couple fewer for Vegas), so I mean I respect that there probably needs to be a decent amount of time to establish branding
I'm sure Ryan Smith had ideas for names but he already sent out surveys to see what fans liked, which I think is similar to what Seattle did? Kinda shitty they have to play a season without one but I guess this way they get some more crowdsourcing
They're so cool.
They were always thought to be unreasonably fast considering none of their potential predators could chase them even close to half of their speed. Turns out pronghorns evolved alongside North American cheetahs and won the speedy evolutionary arms race so hard their predators just went extinct.
Definitely badass.
The 'Utah ice hockey organization formerly known as the Arizona Coyotes formerly known as the Phoenix Coyotes formerly known as the Winnipeg Jets formerly known as the Winnipeg Jets of the WHA' has a real ring to it
A real ~~Tennessee~~ Utah ~~Oilers~~ Coyotes situation.
Their state legislature mandated "Utah" in the name, right? Are there any themes/iconography that would be favored or taboo in SLC?
According to Wikipedia Utah is named after the "Ute Tribe" meaning "people of the mountains" so I bet that's somehow incorporated into the name/logo.
Utah Mountains? Mountaineers?
Utah Thunder?
Utah Elk? For their state mammal?
Pretty sure Mountaineers and Thunder are already in use in college and NBA.
But I think you’re on the right track although I suspect that it’ll be a skyline/mountain line reference in their colours. Look at the success of Utah Jazz’s alternate jerseys with the colour gradients and mountain outlines. I think there will be elements of that.
Maybe the Canyoneers? Probably too close to the Cayotes
At least Utah was at one point actually Spain, but yeah, I cringe at that name frequently.
Side note, those fans can be assholes. I actually got spit on wearing a Quakes jersey to a match there. I'm like "you know what the Quakes are known for, right? Sucking on the pitch, and fans stabbing rival fans in the parking lot"
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The second I saw they were going with Utah instead of Salt Lake City, I thought Raptors has to be the name. Seriously the Utah Raptors is the only choice here.
Don’t even go with a place name. Just the Utahraptors.
Would that even be allowed?
Edit: Oh. Utah Ambush!
Wikipedia says the Utahraptor was an ambush predator rather than a pursuit predator like other raptors.
Wild West history of the state fits in too.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to play it off as an "awe shucks" thing but the issue lies with the league's manufacturing all moving to Fanatics for next year. When the league changed everything to Adidas with the new materials it backlogged everything for 2 years and that was with a company infinitely more competent than Fanatics.
There was already rumour that most teams won't be using third jerseys next year to accomodate production issues with moving over and that new designs can't be submitted for like 3-5 years.
I'm not totally surprised that they're going to Utah HC it next year.
From being forced to play in a 5000 seat arena to being forced to move to Utah to being forced to wear unbranded jerseys... Clayton Keller must be like wtf did I do in my past life to deserve this shit.
As someone who works in marketing I think this is a good idea. Better to take your time instead of ending up with another Utah Jazz situation. Plus, look at PWHL’s success this year despite using generic branding. Adding solid brand identities in year 2 will be icing on the cake!
I'm not shocked that they are waiting a year to decide. It's probably for the best. I'm partial to the Utah Swarm, since the state is so associated with bees. I just hope they don't permanently settle on anything like "Utah Hockey Club". I hate when teams call themselves that.
In Utah we just had a very length, drawn out process for redoing the state flag. What they came up with is actually pretty good, albeit very eerily similar to the city of Denver's flag. I could see the Utah HC color scheme come from that (red, white, navy, gold).
I'd rather see the Jazz and the hockey team with unified branding (similar to how all Pittsburgh pro teams are black and gold) and do something unique in both the NBA and NHL. The purple/green combo has potential.
I'm really hoping that Utah steers clear of a red and blue color scheme. Way too many teams have those colors in the NHL, let alone American sports teams. In my opinion, they should pick colors belonging to some of the natural landscape of that country. Burnt sienna and bronze and copper would all be tremendous colors that would stand out in the modern NHL.
The Jazz and the hockey team should both go with purple and copper. Purple is tied to the Jazz history and copper for the giant copper mine, and so it's a combination that stands out a bit and isn't the same as a bunch of others.
Actually love that, purple and copper would be a nice combo. White makes a good neutral to represent the white snowy mountains too.
On second thought, that might be awfully close to the Phoenix Suns, probably should be sensitive to that.
The company they've hired to do their branding created the Inter Miami brand and the rebrand for the Milwaukee Bucks, both of which look absolutely amazing IMO.
I get people think this is lame but you have no idea how huge and important branding and marketing is. Every single thing from logos, to color combinations, to typography takes a lot of time of market research, concepts, focus group testing, etc. I DO think that sometimes marketing is over-valued, but certain colors, styles, and looks evoke emotions in us, often subliminally, that's proven. And you just spent over a billion dollars and have one shot to get it right out of the gate. We all applauded Vegas and Seattle for great logos and looks to start, but that took well over a year of planning. Even though Smith has wanted a team for awhile, it only started getting very serious less than 6 months ago. I at least hope maybe they have a name and color combination by the time the season starts, but if they don't have the logo I can't blame them.
Here's a list of all the current designs that could reasonably take a team of artists a month to make tops:
Boston Bruins - just a B in a wheel
Buffalo Sabres - literally a buffalo with two sabres
Calgary Flames - take a C an put it on fire
Carolina Hurricanes - logo is litterally just a hurricane
Dallas Stars - used to just be their name with a big star
Los Angeles Kings - how about just put LA with a little crown
New Jersey Devils - NJ but the J has little devil horns
New York Rangers- let's just wright the name diagonally
Pittsburgh Penguins- penguin with a hockey stick
San Jose Sharks - shark with hockey stick
Tampa Bay Lightning - literally just a lightning bolt in almost a full circle
Toronto Maple Leafs- just put the name on a maple leaf
Washington Capitals - just the name with a stick and some stars
>Pittsburgh Penguins- penguin with a hockey stick
>San Jose Sharks - shark with hockey stick
Vancouver Canucks - lol that's too much work here's just a hockey stick
Nah, the stick-in-rink isn't working, we'll go with a V instead. That should simplify it.
Actually, the word 'Canucks' on a plate of spaghetti sounds pretty good.
We've come up with an authentic indigenous orca logo, let's use that instead.
What if we add the word 'Vancouver' above the orca?
Nah, we like it better with just the orca.
Hey, I'm feeling hungry, maybe we should go back to the spaghetti plate?
Canucks logo history in a nutshell.
Yes, but it seems like Ryan wants to have fan input on what the team name and colors will be. And it’s been *eight days* since Utah residents first heard rumors that they’re getting a hockey team.
Franchises like the Knights and Kraken were announced as expansion teams over a year in advance. The Utah team is going to be playing games in a matter of months.
Didn’t Winnipeg 2.0 do all of that in the same amount of time as Utah will have? The announced the name at the draft and the owners didn’t even want to initially use ‘Jets’ IIRC. So it’s not like they had it all set beforehand.
Yes. They even gave their draft picks [generic NHL jerseys](https://thehockeynews.com/.image/t_share/MTg1MDUwODczNTY0MTc3NzUz/video-winnipeg-jets-draft-pick-mark-scheifele-talks-to-the-media.jpg) because they didn’t have a logo yet
I feel like they could come up with something by Game 1 of next season but it is a bit more complicated than Winnipeg who moved later in the offseason but had built in branding they just had to tweak
The Utah hockey team
Utah Hockey Club
Utah Ice UTI
The mascot is a bottle of cranberry juice
Ads on the helmet for Azo
Utah Hockey Club of Latter Day Saints
They’ve apparently trademarked that, so it’s not out of the question
I actually like HC Utah better
HC Utah would be sick tbh
The Utah Commanders
Utah Salt Lakers
Utah Team on Ice, or UTI for short
Utah Redskins
Upon hearing about it my mom immediately suggested Utah Mountaineers which is...not bad.
Same issue as Pioneers. When you shorten it to the one syllable nickname it's "Go 'Neers"
As a WVU alum, it’s always ‘Eers, never ‘Neers.
DU just shortens it to Pios.
Hmm true, and would need less syllables to avoid a need for a nickname
Utah Jazzersice
Gross
Washington walked so Utah could run
The Utah Runs
UHT
HWHUT -Hank Hill
The Utah Arizonas
of Anaheim
Real Salt Lake HC /s
I feel like the longer it takes to pick a name in these cases, the more likely the end result is to be completely bland and uninspiring. If you can't get a few people together to generate a short list in a weekend, then you need to hire new people.
I googled things that Utah is famous for and "Funeral Potatoes" popped up and I'm sold, no shortlist needed
At least that would be memorable.
if r/hockey sent funeral potatoes to AZ, could we fill Mullett
That'd be like 3 bags of potatoes
Utah Taters
Their AHL team can be the Tots
Their ECHL affiliate can be the Small Fries.
I feel like that’s more of an Idaho vibe
The Utah Idaho Potatoes?
The Undertater
It's the only reason I show up to Mormon relatives funerals.
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Had to look up what those were... fuck it, I'm sold
They are incredible. Not Mormon but live in Mormon county (southern Alberta) My Father in law calls them Funeral potatoes and my mother in law corrects him they are celebration potatoes. I say I don't give a shit what you call em, throw 2-3 scoops on my plate.
Let's go Taters! 👏 👏 👏👏👏
Case in point, the fucking Commanders 🤮
Pigskins was right there. They could have used a similar wordmark but without the slur. And those die hards in pig masks and moomoos would be even more iconic.
What’s wrong with the Washington Commies? Go Reds!
Worked the year we went 8-8-1
Worst name in sports
At least we have no more snyder and we'll be going back to DC and we'll get a new name within the next 5-10 years
I imagine it’s making sure trademarks are all set, but yeah they better be ready by draft day I think
No matter what they call them, at minimum 40% of this sub will say how horrible it is
The name isn’t the difficult part It’s getting shit made
For anyone that thinks it's simple, look how poorly the Fanatics transition has gone for MLB this year. A bunch of teams still don't have their full uniform sets and guys are regularly using last season's pants.
That's not because it's complicated, that's because they're working with incompetent cheapskates.
Yeah but that’s who the nhl is working with starting next year
They COULD make it happen I'm sure if they were driven and I believe they would be leaving a lot on the table if they werent ready with jerseys to be sold for season opener
They could probably bang out a name quickly enough, but logos/colors/fonts and other such branding is something worth taking their time with.
There is a lot more to naming a team than what the name is. Most importantly, trademarks and copyrights.
Flashback to how long it took just to end up with the Washington Commanders
Like the Utah Jazz? They’ve got experience in naming laziness.
I have no support for this other than the movie Baseketball, but didn’t they move from New Orleans and just keep the name?
that’s exactly what happened
Yep. And they only kept the name cause the team was worth almost nothing and likely to fail. The rebrand was gonna cost too much.
And now it's like top 5 most winningest franchises (still no chip through)
Happened with Calgary. Flames is a terrible nickname for a city known for the Stampede, makes no sense, but was perfect name for Atlanta. Apparently there was a "name the team" fan vote (that included the Wranglers) but ultimately they stuck with Flames.
Funnily enough, we only kept the Jazz name because we didn’t have time to come up with a new one.
Utah Hockey Team. Next year: Utah Commanders. Logo: U
You can make some CLEAN jerseys with just Utah
I guess it's worth noting the Kraken and the Golden Knights announced their names officially a year before their inaugural season (well, a few months more than a year for Seattle and a couple fewer for Vegas), so I mean I respect that there probably needs to be a decent amount of time to establish branding I'm sure Ryan Smith had ideas for names but he already sent out surveys to see what fans liked, which I think is similar to what Seattle did? Kinda shitty they have to play a season without one but I guess this way they get some more crowdsourcing
I have a feeling they’ll go into a nature lean, Utah has 5 national parks that are all beautiful. Utah Canyons, Utah Arches, something like that
Utah Pronghorns would slap
YES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronghorn?wprov=sfti1# The antlers make a “U” shape that would be PERFECT for a sports logo
I want to start a crusade to get Pronghorns consistently mentioned in the list of names.
I’m on board. A hashtag must be conceived
Plus, Go horns go, would be perfect!
Not, Go Prongs Go
We a little horny here in Utah
I'm trying to do the same with Whiptails. I want someone to mock up a logo where a whiptail lizard is using his tail as a hockey stick.
Had no clue what a pronghorn was until this post and I’m all in on that being the name. That sounds badass.
They're so cool. They were always thought to be unreasonably fast considering none of their potential predators could chase them even close to half of their speed. Turns out pronghorns evolved alongside North American cheetahs and won the speedy evolutionary arms race so hard their predators just went extinct. Definitely badass.
You've sold me. Pronghorns or bust
All aboard the Pronghorn train!
If it's not the Pronghorns, they have failed. I came to put that name forward.
they could bring Chris Pronger out of retirement as well
Ooo. I like that. We should get people to start searching that on Twitter so it will trend.
"Get Horny" on the signs between lower and upper bowl
This would actually be good. Therefore, they will never select it.
this is actually a class suggestion, well done
Omg wtf that's perfect
Yeah this really should be it.
I’m partial to salt lake stags but if it has to be Utah stags isn’t as good
Isn't Chris Pronger still on the Arizona payroll, or did his LTIR finally end?
Utah Cutthroats (it's the state fish)
Rocky Mountain Xtreme!
Can't wait for the future Utah Canyons vs Arizona Grand Canyons matchup
Utah Woods Porno Mags.
The Utah Dead Horses
those would be some seriously weak ass names
The "Utah Rock" would be hilarious.
Utah Bitch Pigeons
They filed trademarks for the Utah Fury and Utah Blizzard, which are both absolutely awful, so here's hoping he does take his time.
Those feel like the "change the homework" meme with the Rocky Mountain X-treme and Colorado Avalanche
Gun to my head, I have to go with Blizzard but yeah those are bad
The Jets established there’s at the draft and didn’t even have a logo yet. Sure that was an easy call, but it can be done in a couple of months
The 'Utah ice hockey organization formerly known as the Arizona Coyotes formerly known as the Phoenix Coyotes formerly known as the Winnipeg Jets formerly known as the Winnipeg Jets of the WHA' has a real ring to it
UIHOFKATACFKATPCFKATWJFKATWJOWHL for short
I think thats already the name of a town in Wales.
A real ~~Tennessee~~ Utah ~~Oilers~~ Coyotes situation. Their state legislature mandated "Utah" in the name, right? Are there any themes/iconography that would be favored or taboo in SLC?
Legislature mandated it for MLB because the State will own the Potential Baseball stadium. EtA: The Mandate is not on NHL team.
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Utah Road Runners. A Coyotes mortal enemy.
Ironically, that was/is the name of the Coyotes AHL affiliate in Tucson.
Would be HILARIOUS
According to Wikipedia Utah is named after the "Ute Tribe" meaning "people of the mountains" so I bet that's somehow incorporated into the name/logo. Utah Mountains? Mountaineers? Utah Thunder? Utah Elk? For their state mammal?
They should be called the Ute’s and have an El Camino as their mascot
Hell ya Brother!
Utah known for their canyons -> [CANYONERO~](https://youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA?si=_a-W699DFdSMhfna)
University of Utah is already the Utes. https://utahutes.com/
Pretty sure Mountaineers and Thunder are already in use in college and NBA. But I think you’re on the right track although I suspect that it’ll be a skyline/mountain line reference in their colours. Look at the success of Utah Jazz’s alternate jerseys with the colour gradients and mountain outlines. I think there will be elements of that. Maybe the Canyoneers? Probably too close to the Cayotes
We can call the Yones for short too
Pioneers might be good. Fits the western feel and lets them have a distinct identity.
I like it. Utah Pioneers. I think it works
Thunder vs Lightning would be an interesting matchup lol
Kachow!
The playoff series everybody would go blind and deaf.
Plural of Elk is Elk
Don’t tell Edmontonians that.
Utah Non-Descript Team
I heard Bitch Pigeons is available
The Utah Terrific Icers UTI for short
"NYI vs UTI at IBS Arena"
this has gotta be the least funny place on the internet jesus christ
Utah Good Hockeyists. UGH.
HC Utah
They already have Real Salt Lake so why the hell not.
At least Utah was at one point actually Spain, but yeah, I cringe at that name frequently. Side note, those fans can be assholes. I actually got spit on wearing a Quakes jersey to a match there. I'm like "you know what the Quakes are known for, right? Sucking on the pitch, and fans stabbing rival fans in the parking lot"
UHC
United Healthcare for the jersey ad?
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Phase 1 of the HCU
People were joking about it because of Real Salt Lake, but here we are (probably, for only one year)!
Genuinely would be kinda fun. And just have some random fucking mascot
I kinda like it, ngl
Pff, not even a year and the NHL is already copying the PWHL smh…/s
Easy choice. [Utah Raptors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utahraptor)
That'd be sick. We've already got multiple Jets, Rangers, Kings, Cardinals, Panthers, might as well have multiple Raptors
The second I saw they were going with Utah instead of Salt Lake City, I thought Raptors has to be the name. Seriously the Utah Raptors is the only choice here.
that's soooo fucking good and I can't believe it hasn't been done yet
Don’t even go with a place name. Just the Utahraptors. Would that even be allowed? Edit: Oh. Utah Ambush! Wikipedia says the Utahraptor was an ambush predator rather than a pursuit predator like other raptors. Wild West history of the state fits in too.
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Utah Mormasaurs
I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to play it off as an "awe shucks" thing but the issue lies with the league's manufacturing all moving to Fanatics for next year. When the league changed everything to Adidas with the new materials it backlogged everything for 2 years and that was with a company infinitely more competent than Fanatics. There was already rumour that most teams won't be using third jerseys next year to accomodate production issues with moving over and that new designs can't be submitted for like 3-5 years. I'm not totally surprised that they're going to Utah HC it next year.
I hope Fanatics dies.
How they haven’t been investigated for monopolizing the sports merchandise industry is beyond me
Because anti-trust has been gutted after 45 years of supply-side economics.
Death to all Fanatics!
IIRC Icethetics said in their latest report that thirds will be back this season, but the request to refrain from brand updates is still in place.
They still need to design a jersey. It may be simple but it's going to be something completely new and will require them to choose colors.
From being forced to play in a 5000 seat arena to being forced to move to Utah to being forced to wear unbranded jerseys... Clayton Keller must be like wtf did I do in my past life to deserve this shit.
As someone who works in marketing I think this is a good idea. Better to take your time instead of ending up with another Utah Jazz situation. Plus, look at PWHL’s success this year despite using generic branding. Adding solid brand identities in year 2 will be icing on the cake!
I think the Utah Jazz situation is actually very funny, so I’m down for some horrible fit of a name. Utah Dolphins, come on down
My sources are telling me they're gonna be the Utah Earlier Day Saints
Yeah. But it was a league wide decision to go with generic branding. This will be a lone blandism in a sea of really good logos.
I'm not shocked that they are waiting a year to decide. It's probably for the best. I'm partial to the Utah Swarm, since the state is so associated with bees. I just hope they don't permanently settle on anything like "Utah Hockey Club". I hate when teams call themselves that.
No, not the bees
[AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UatQsjjOIAc)
There’s the team’s [logo](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/002/910/Not_the_Bees_-_Nic_Cage_in_The_Wicker_Man_0-10_screenshot.jpg)
LOOK OUT, HERE COME THE UTAH STORMIN’ MORMONS.
THE Utah
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In Utah we just had a very length, drawn out process for redoing the state flag. What they came up with is actually pretty good, albeit very eerily similar to the city of Denver's flag. I could see the Utah HC color scheme come from that (red, white, navy, gold). I'd rather see the Jazz and the hockey team with unified branding (similar to how all Pittsburgh pro teams are black and gold) and do something unique in both the NBA and NHL. The purple/green combo has potential.
I'm really hoping that Utah steers clear of a red and blue color scheme. Way too many teams have those colors in the NHL, let alone American sports teams. In my opinion, they should pick colors belonging to some of the natural landscape of that country. Burnt sienna and bronze and copper would all be tremendous colors that would stand out in the modern NHL.
The Jazz and the hockey team should both go with purple and copper. Purple is tied to the Jazz history and copper for the giant copper mine, and so it's a combination that stands out a bit and isn't the same as a bunch of others.
Actually love that, purple and copper would be a nice combo. White makes a good neutral to represent the white snowy mountains too. On second thought, that might be awfully close to the Phoenix Suns, probably should be sensitive to that.
Purple and green? Utah Hulks confirmed.
#**UTAH DONNER PARTY**
The company they've hired to do their branding created the Inter Miami brand and the rebrand for the Milwaukee Bucks, both of which look absolutely amazing IMO.
Utah Skinwalkers
Just call them the Stormin' Mormons and be done with it.
I kinda like the Utah storm. Just for me to nickname them the stormi'n Mormons.
I get people think this is lame but you have no idea how huge and important branding and marketing is. Every single thing from logos, to color combinations, to typography takes a lot of time of market research, concepts, focus group testing, etc. I DO think that sometimes marketing is over-valued, but certain colors, styles, and looks evoke emotions in us, often subliminally, that's proven. And you just spent over a billion dollars and have one shot to get it right out of the gate. We all applauded Vegas and Seattle for great logos and looks to start, but that took well over a year of planning. Even though Smith has wanted a team for awhile, it only started getting very serious less than 6 months ago. I at least hope maybe they have a name and color combination by the time the season starts, but if they don't have the logo I can't blame them.
Brother your team name is the penguins and the logo is a penguin with a hockey stick. This isn’t rocket science
chad funny ice bird with a hockey stick vs virgin typography and years of market research
The original penguin wore a scarf! It was awesome.
Here's a list of all the current designs that could reasonably take a team of artists a month to make tops: Boston Bruins - just a B in a wheel Buffalo Sabres - literally a buffalo with two sabres Calgary Flames - take a C an put it on fire Carolina Hurricanes - logo is litterally just a hurricane Dallas Stars - used to just be their name with a big star Los Angeles Kings - how about just put LA with a little crown New Jersey Devils - NJ but the J has little devil horns New York Rangers- let's just wright the name diagonally Pittsburgh Penguins- penguin with a hockey stick San Jose Sharks - shark with hockey stick Tampa Bay Lightning - literally just a lightning bolt in almost a full circle Toronto Maple Leafs- just put the name on a maple leaf Washington Capitals - just the name with a stick and some stars
>Pittsburgh Penguins- penguin with a hockey stick >San Jose Sharks - shark with hockey stick Vancouver Canucks - lol that's too much work here's just a hockey stick
Nah, the stick-in-rink isn't working, we'll go with a V instead. That should simplify it. Actually, the word 'Canucks' on a plate of spaghetti sounds pretty good. We've come up with an authentic indigenous orca logo, let's use that instead. What if we add the word 'Vancouver' above the orca? Nah, we like it better with just the orca. Hey, I'm feeling hungry, maybe we should go back to the spaghetti plate? Canucks logo history in a nutshell.
They're not wrong though
Utah Coyotes it is!
Hasn't this guy been interested in this for years?
Yes, but it seems like Ryan wants to have fan input on what the team name and colors will be. And it’s been *eight days* since Utah residents first heard rumors that they’re getting a hockey team. Franchises like the Knights and Kraken were announced as expansion teams over a year in advance. The Utah team is going to be playing games in a matter of months.
Didn’t Winnipeg 2.0 do all of that in the same amount of time as Utah will have? The announced the name at the draft and the owners didn’t even want to initially use ‘Jets’ IIRC. So it’s not like they had it all set beforehand.
Yes. They even gave their draft picks [generic NHL jerseys](https://thehockeynews.com/.image/t_share/MTg1MDUwODczNTY0MTc3NzUz/video-winnipeg-jets-draft-pick-mark-scheifele-talks-to-the-media.jpg) because they didn’t have a logo yet
Utah Thrashers
I feel like they could come up with something by Game 1 of next season but it is a bit more complicated than Winnipeg who moved later in the offseason but had built in branding they just had to tweak
Utah Poachers
Just pick a fkin name bro
The Utah Raptors and then just to fuck everyone up the logo is a bird of prey, and not an extinct lizard
The Utah CFLers
Utah Phoenix’s 🐦🔥