Utah’s new Nationwide Hockey League group is beginning to assemble their checklist of attainable group names forward of their inaugural (however not enlargement) season this fall.
DetroitHockey.Web’s Clark Rasmussen, the king of the trademark search, found two more names possibly trademarked by the group, bringing the whole to 9 which were registered to this point:
Utah Blizzard
Utah Fury
Utah HC
Utah Hockey Membership
Utah Ice
Utah Mammoth
Utah Outlaws
Utah Venom
Utah Yetis
The membership’s co-owner (and in addition co-owner of the NBA’s Utah Jazz), Ryan Smith, told Sportsnet’s 32 Thoughts podcast that he desires to let the followers finally determine the ultimate title through a event bracket.
“We have six or eight names that seem to be the ones,” he informed the podcast. “We’ve engaged Qualtrics to do it from a survey standpoint, grab all the feedback, and run the brackets so it’s right.”
Rasmussen’s post notes that whereas we at present have 9 trademarked names, two of them are successfully one (Utah Hockey Membership and Utah HC), which reduces us to eight. Eliminating the groups with no title (it felt good to be out of the rain) reduces us to seven. Each situations are inside that “six or eight” vary Smith set.
Talking of situations, Smith stated his “dream scenario” sees overlapped components between the Jazz uniforms and the brand new Utah NHL group uniforms.
“If you look at the mountains on the [Jazz] jersey, that breeds a little bit of a colour palette naturally, of fresh ice, blue skies, you see that,” Smith informed the podcast. “In a dream scenario, there’s a Venn diagram where you’ve got the Jazz and this team … where things could overlap.”
“You’ve got to leave a little room for teams to get out and do special stuff that’s not going to be part of that diagram, but I think there can be a really cool symmetry, and I don’t think it has to just be like Pittsburgh or everything else where everything’s the exact same colour.”
Smith refers to Pittsburgh’s sports activities groups, which all use the identical color scheme of black and yellow.
Because it stands, I’m undecided I’m a fan of any of the attainable names revealed to this point. Yetis is okay, I assume? However the Colorado Avalanche have already used that Bigfoot imagery — is that an issue? Utah Blizzard may work, from Smith’s perspective, in that it lends itself simply to that mountain imagery he spoke about, plus the double “Z” can work as a tie-in to the “Jazz.”
We’ll maintain a watch out on this, however I suggest you follow Clark over on Twitter/X @detroithockey96 for the newest on this.
