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

[Reggie Dunlop]

Go Mams Go!

[midniteowl]

I don't mind the logo, just don't like the color scheme.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Colour scheme could be more unique

Logo looks a little bit like an NES graphic.

Overall the branding is fine.

The name is solid.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by blankall

It's "Mammoth" not "Mammoths"? Those kind of names always confuse me...Is there a specific mammoth they're referencing? There was more than one. Does the team have a hive mind?

One specific Mammoth. Clieg the Mammoth carried the load of the Tunisian Raiders who were crossing North America in search of Tungsten. Clieg got them as far as the Great Salk Lakes but they were not to survive the cold winters but Clieg did. Clieg fought hard against other species to survive. Grok witnessed this and wrote about it on a cave near the salt lakes. Clieg stayed in the area, acting as the boss of all the animals in the area, keeping them united in peace for two years before Grok's clan decided to hunt them all for food and clothing. But not Clieg. Clieg wasn't having it. Clieg fought ferociously and even dwindled the numbers of Grok's clan. Eventually Clieg grew tired of the fighting and moved on. It is believe he took up grazing the pastures on Montana until his passing.

[midniteowl]

Originally Posted by Buff

One specific Mammoth. Clieg the Mammoth carried the load of the Tunisian Raiders who were crossing North America in search of Tungsten. Clieg got them as far as the Great Salk Lakes but they were not to survive the cold winters but Clieg did. Clieg fought hard against other species to survive. Grok witnessed this and wrote about it on a cave near the salt lakes. Clieg stayed in the area, acting as the boss of all the animals in the area, keeping them united in peace for two years before Grok's clan decided to hunt them all for food and clothing. But not Clieg. Clieg wasn't having it. Clieg fought ferociously and even dwindled the numbers of Grok's clan. Eventually Clieg grew tired of the fighting and moved on. It is believe he took up grazing the pastures on Montana until his passing.

So it's the same as Seattle Kraken?

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

No, there is only one Kraken in myth afaik.

[BigThief]

Originally Posted by chummer

https://twitter.com/user/status/1920116411369652527

Only putting the logo on the home jersey is a cool choice. Eventually they'll have some nice alternatives when they do a logo swap and bring in a light blue home jersey,

[Lewis_D]

I predict they'll form a natural rivalry against Nashville. Predators logo is fangs down, Utah logo is tusks up.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Locke

Now we're getting somewhere! I was unaware of the Snorkasaurus.



We may need to do a deep dive here and do some Flintstone based research!

I'm curious now whether Snorkasaurus was an ornithischian or saurischian dinosaur. Do we have any pelvis fossils?

[Itse]

Extremely whelmed. Jersey is fine, color scheme feels overused but its fine, name is fine.

Surprised so many like that logo, to me it's maybe 2/5. Messy, hard to identify as a mammoth. It's fine, but not good. Feels like copied homework.

I think this will describe by feelings about Utah for a long time. It's a team that exists and is fine

[sch19lks]

Originally Posted by BigThief

Only putting the logo on the home jersey is a cool choice. Eventually they'll have some nice alternatives when they do a logo swap and bring in a light blue home jersey,

The name of your city/state on the road uniforms is a baseball thing. And it should stay that way

[Locke]

Originally Posted by icarus

I'm curious now whether Snorkasaurus was an ornithischian or saurischian dinosaur. Do we have any pelvis fossils?

I dont know, but I think it's important to remember...the Flintstones also used baby Mammoths as Bidets....

[OptimalTates]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

No, there is only one Kraken in myth afaik.

Disagree. There isn't really much myth to the kraken at all. While obviously sea monster sightings have existed since prerecorded history, the kraken myth has it first named as such in the 1700s but described as a massive many-horned fish with the first description popularizing it as a giant octopus attributed to 1753.

But by the mid 1700s, the world was less believing in singular monsters like say Behomoth, Leviathian, Typhon or Jörmungandr and instead would have believed it to be a species if it existed.

Which is why it shows up in Carl Linnaeus' first edition of Systema Naturae and you can find many examples of the plural "krakens" or the singular "a kraken" from the 1700s.



The idea that it is a singular proper name monster seems to be more of a new myth since it replaced Cetus in the 80s Clash of the Titans and then further propagated by things like the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. It also doesn't help that the improper translation of the plural from Norwegian has made Kraken and Krakens both correct plural forms so even the Seattle Kraken could be referring to plural kraken.

But none of this explains why it's a singular Mammoth.

[GioforPM]

Maybe the lack of a plural is because the name is used as an adjective and not a noun (though the logo argues against it).

[GioforPM]

https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sport...d/83493798007/

[Winsor_Pilates]

Mediocre.
The name & logo are ok, but something feels not quite there.
Feels a bit amateur.

[ComixZone]

10/10 on name.

I still don't love their brand colours, but I think Mammoth is absolutely killer. Black as primary base for the jersey removes the fun out of what the crowd would look like during the playoffs etc. The styling on U is also great.

[Erick Estrada]

Mammoth is much better than Hockey Club and kind of aligns with Kraken as a direction of new organization names that aren't plural. I like the logo but the jersey's are just okay. I suppose being Mammoth they are kind of locked into blue and white representing winter ice/snow but the colors look very familiar.

[GioforPM]

Can't tell - are the homes light blue/white on black or on very dark blue. The latter would be more interesting.

[Badgers Nose]

Any palaeontologists what to chime in as to whether or not Mammoth ranged that area in times past?

Like the name and logo. Feels like it would fit better up here though.