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Utah Hockey Membership Provides ‘Outlaws’ to Checklist of Nickname Finalists for Fan Vote

Julia Stumbaugh January 30, 2025 Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images The Utah Hockey Club is reconsidering adopting “Utah Outlaws” as a team name following fan feedback. The NHL’s newest hockey team said Thursday night the first night of in-arena fan voting made it “clear” the Outlaws should be considered over the Wasatch, a Utah mountain range. Fans

Utah Hockey Membership Provides ‘Outlaws’ to Checklist of Nickname Finalists for Fan Vote

Julia StumbaughJanuary 30, 2025

MONTREAL, CANADA - NOVEMBER 26:  A closeup view of the Utah Hockey Club logo on a jersey during the second period against the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre on November 26, 2024 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  The Utah Hockey Club defeated the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 in overtime.  (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

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The Utah Hockey Membership is reconsidering adopting “Utah Outlaws” as a group title following fan suggestions.

The NHL’s latest hockey group stated Thursday night time the primary night time of in-arena fan voting made it “clear” the Outlaws needs to be thought-about over the Wasatch, a Utah mountain vary.

Followers will now have the ability to select between the Utah Outlaws, Utah Mammoth and Utah Hockey Membership when voting for the membership’s everlasting title at Delta Middle.

Utah Hockey Membership @utahhockeyclub

Hey Utah hockey followers! We listened to your suggestions and dug into all of the Qualtrics knowledge from final night time’s survey. For the group title, it is clear that Outlaws needs to be within the combine as an alternative of Wasatch, so we’re swapping it out.

Surveys will proceed on the area Friday, Sunday and…

Followers will get three extra probabilities to vote for his or her favourite title throughout Friday’s recreation in opposition to the Columbus Blue Jackets, Sunday’s recreation in opposition to the St. Louis Blues and Tuesday’s recreation in opposition to the Philadelphia Flyers.

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The NHL’s latest membership, which entered the 2024-25 season with Utah Hockey Membership supposed solely as a temporary title, initially seemed to be leaning in a special nickname route.

Clayton Keller informed NHL.com’s Mike Zeisberger forward of the group’s inaugural season the ultimate group title “appears like it will be the Yeti.”

Utah then bumped into trademark points with the proposed nickname. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Workplace denied in early January the franchise’s try and trademark the model, citing a “chance of confusion” with different manufacturers together with the drinkware and cooler model YETI.

Utah’s possession group, the Smith Leisure Group, stated in a statement YETI “was in the end unwilling to conform to a co-existence settlement” that will permit the hockey group to make use of the title on merchandise.

Yeti was then left off the unique record of three finalists listed throughout Wednesday night time’s fan vote at Delta Middle throughout Utah’s recreation in opposition to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

SEG government Mike Maughan stated the title Wasatch was initially chosen to fill the Yeti’s slot as a part of an try and maintain a “Utah-centric” title on the record, per John Coon of the Related Press.

The SEG has been polling followers for his or her opinions on group names since final spring. Wasatch was not on the original list of group names supplied to followers, who voted for the Yeti, Mammoth, Outlaws and HC alongside the Blizzard and Venom as finalists.

Voting for the group names will happen on iPads arrange on each flooring of Delta Middle, which can be found from when doorways open to the tip of the sport, in keeping with Belle Fraser of the Salt Lake Tribune. Fraser famous followers taking the survey had been requested to not use their telephones whereas voting “to stop the spreading of the logos.”

Utah nonetheless plans to decide to a everlasting title forward of the 2025-26 season, in keeping with SEG.

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