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

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Locke

Yeah...I thought that was really odd as well? Outlaws? In Utah? Did they steal someone's magical Gold plates?

What Outlaws?

Spoiler!

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

As the Pittsburgh Penguins have shown us, your nickname can be as absurd as you want it to be. LA Kings, Vegas Golden Knights, etc.

Yeah I just thought it was kind of a funny juxtaposition.

I hope it’s not Outlaws so they don’t step on our horsey and cowboy imagery.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I actually like it. Yaks are awesome animals. Years ago I knew someone who had a yak on their hobby farm. It was very smart with a lot of personality, kind of like a goat and better recall than a lot of dogs I've met.

I think people tend to over think it these days. Just pick a cool animal that hasn't been taken yet. Animals always have marketability and don't really go out of style.

I thought it up half-jokingly, but it's actually pretty good. Unique and slightly oddball.

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I actually like it. Yaks are awesome animals. Years ago I knew someone who had a yak on their hobby farm. It was very smart with a lot of personality, kind of like a goat and better recall than a lot of dogs I've met.

I think people tend to over think it these days. Just pick a cool animal that hasn't been taken yet. Animals always have marketability and don't really go out of style.

Their goal song could be "Yakety Yak."

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by butterfly

It's Salt Lake City, not Provo.

The Mormon Tabernacle is in SLC.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Locke

Yeah...I thought that was really odd as well? Outlaws? In Utah? Did they steal someone's magical Gold plates?

What Outlaws?

[Reggie Dunlop]

Hoot Gibson was a badass.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

Their goal song could be "Yakety Yak."

That'd be their mascot. Yakety Yak, who doesn't talk back.

Yakety Sax (Benny Hill Theme) would be a great goal song.

(I found out there's already a college baseball team called the Utah Yaks.)

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

There literally already is a "Hockey Club" in the NHL:

Club de hockey Canadien

And their logo is an H inside a C, no less.

Which could make for a different kind of trademark problem if Utah tried to keep ‘HC’ permanently.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

There literally already is a "Hockey Club" in the NHL:

Club de hockey Canadien

I didn't even think of that....This is a whole Roughriders situation all over again.

[Party Elephant]

Originally Posted by blankall

I didn't even think of that....This is a whole Roughriders situation all over again.

In french media they're referred to as "le CH" most of the time

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Locke

Yeah...I thought that was really odd as well? Outlaws? In Utah? Did they steal someone's magical Gold plates?

What Outlaws?

Utah is working towards having New Age Outlaws.

Oh, you didn't know?

[getbak]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I hope it’s not Outlaws so they don’t step on our horsey and cowboy imagery.

When you put it that way... GO OUTLAWS!!!

[Displaced Flames fan]

Well, ever heard of the Mountain Meadows Massacre?

[Reggie Dunlop]

What if REAL Outlaws... like some really bad hombres..... claim copyright?

[topfiverecords]

Not a fan of Outlaws. That doesn’t put as much fear into anyone as the “Inlaws are coming to town!” does.

[FlamesAddiction]

I don't mind Outlaws. It does play into the history of the state and there could be some cool logo possibilities. The only thing I don't like about it is how it sounds. It's just too vowel heavy when you say it along with the state's name, like it doesn't flow off the tongue. When the first word ends in a vowel sound and the following one starts with a vowel sound, it just doesn't sound good to me.

What about something like Bandits? Similar concept, but to me it just sounds better when you combine it with Utah.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

When the first word ends in a vowel sound and the following one starts with a vowel sound, it just doesn't sound good to me.

It isn't just you. Poets all over the English-speaking world have been trying to avoid those combinations for hundreds of years. (In the Romance languages, they just slur the two vowels together into one syllable.)

I agree, ‘Utah Bandits’ rolls off the tongue a lot better than ‘Utah Outlaws’.

[FanIn80]

HC Utah

[Reggie Dunlop]

Utah United
Real Utah
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