[News] Utah to name its NHL team via fan vote bracket- Mammoth is the winner

[Southside]

Originally Posted by D as in David

Utah Wasatch is ready-made for a Budweiser sponsorship.

And I saw Wet Snatch.

[Samonadreau]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

I don’t hate Wasatch. I have always thought Rockies was a cool name too.

Rockies sound like mountains though, Wasatch sounds like a condiment.

[SilverKast]

Originally Posted by Southside

And I saw Wet Snatch.

Oh man, I liked the name at first but now that’s all I’m going to think of when I hear it. Doh!

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by Samonadreau

Rockies sound like mountains though, Wasatch sounds like a condiment.

Pretty horrible. It's a native American word for the range. Sort of like the Kootenai.

[WideReceiver]

No Wasatch sounds like a large, hairy, mythical beast that may roam the mountains.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by butterfly

Pretty horrible. It's a native American word for the range. Sort of like the Kootenai.

‘Kootenai’ would also be a horrible nickname for a sports team.

[Reggie Dunlop]

The Utah Range.

[PaperBagger'14]

Maybe they just add a colour to the name to get around the copyright issues, the Utah Red-y-Yetis

[Coach]

I don't mind Wasatch. At least it's unique and tied to the area.

HC or Wasatch for me. If they wanted something like Mammoth, Mastodon would have been cooler.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Samonadreau

Rockies sound like mountains though, Wasatch sounds like a condiment.

Yeah stupid words in original languages of the first people there. HAR HAR!

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Coach

Yeah stupid words in original languages of the first people there. HAR HAR!

You mean, stupid attempts by white people to pronounce words in languages they don’t know, completely butchering them?

A quick Wikipedia check (yes, I know) gives four hypotheses for the origin of the name ‘Wasatch’. It isn't even certain whether the name is derived from Ute or Shoshoni, and there are conflicting accounts of what the original word might have been and what it meant. However, in neither of those languages is ‘Wasatch’ the indigenous name of the mountain range. It might be a corruption of a word meaning ‘mountain pass’, or ‘blue heron’, or ‘land of many waters’, or even ‘berry basket’.

Har har indeed.

[troutman]

In the language of the native Ute people, Wasatch means "mountain pass" or "low pass over high range." [wiki]

There must be other Ute words that are better.

Sinawava = Coyote

http://www.native-languages.org/more...s/sinawava.htm

Sinawava is Coyote, the culture hero of Ute and Chemehuevi mythology. Though he is a trickster figure whose frivolous, irresponsible behavior is constantly causing trouble for everyone around him, Coyote also plays a more serious role as benefactor and teacher of the people.

[Erick Estrada]

It's probably going to be Mammoth which is the best of the three remaining options IMO.

[Toonage]

There is an Athletic article that raised my eyebrows a bit. Basically suggesting they wanted the Yeti name but also how the Wasatch name could lend itself to using the yeti logos or mascot etc.

Feels like it may be the sneaky front runner, they also hint to making merch with a Yeti logo. Really if they're pre-producing things all they'd need is to change an wordmark (IMO)

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...mmoth-wasatch/

[CroFlames]

Leave it as HC to continue the tradition of bizarrely names SLC teams.

Their future MLB team can be the Utah Trumps. They can all wear wigs.

[Strange Brew]

They are going to stick with the Yeti themed merch and mascot if it goes the Utah HC or Wasatch.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Toonage

There is an Athletic article that raised my eyebrows a bit. Basically suggesting they wanted the Yeti name but also how the Wasatch name could lend itself to using the yeti logos or mascot etc.

Feels like it may be the sneaky front runner, they also hint to making merch with a Yeti logo. Really if they're pre-producing things all they'd need is to change an wordmark (IMO)

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...mmoth-wasatch/

I don't understand how the word "Yeti" could be copyrighted. Sasquatch and Bigfoot are used by plenty of businesses.

[Toonage]

Its weird to me too as the Kraken ran into the issue with the rum people. They hint in the above article that Utah ownership (Smith) didn't want to go through a legal hassle so I assume that to mean he just didn't want to hand over a bunch of money to the Yeti cooler people or give out free advertising like the Seattle group did to Kraken rum.

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I don't understand how the word "Yeti" could be copyrighted. Sasquatch and Bigfoot are used by plenty of businesses.

I think part of the problem is that the type of items that would be part of the NHL team trademark are already made by the YETI cooler folks, like coffee tumblers etc.

If it was like Utah Yeti mech, and the other YETI sold hot water tanks, it wouldn't be an issue.

[VilleN]

Don't like the way Wasatch sounds - it's ok guys, it's not racist to not like the way a name sounds, whatever it's origins. I think Mammoth is pretty cool, great logo possibilities, and mascots.