Around the NHL: 2024-2025 Season

[DarthEbriate]

Utah Outlaws sounds so wonky. If they choose it, they should mandate that Outlaw be pronounced Ooot-law so that it rhymes.

I'd go with the Mammoth, but strictly for the mascot. You could call them the Woolies or the Mumakil. 

[Thorner]

Every single nfl team ends with an “S” WOW did not realize that till now 

[Thorner]

 

[Weave]

50 minutes ago, Thorner said:

Are there other examples of animals being in a name and it being one that’s the same plural and singular?

Like, Kansas City Sheep, etc 

Deerseses is plural for deer, no?

Utah Mammotheses

[sabremike]

I want the Utah Okapis:

[That Aud Smell]

1 hour ago, Thorner said:

Are there other examples of animals being in a name and it being one that’s the same plural and singular?

Like, Kansas City Sheep, etc 

None, as you noted (or was noted) above.

Stanford Cardinal is the only sports team/program that I can think of that has a singular version of an animal as its mascot.

Wait - isn't there a Lynx team in the WNBA? (If that counts.)

I also like Mammoth because they can play on the word having become an adjective.

[That Aud Smell]

29 minutes ago, Weave said:

Deerseses is plural for deer, no?

Utah Mammotheses

Manitoba Moose, yo.

[thewookie1]

1 minute ago, That Aud Smell said:

Manitoba Moose, yo.

The Meese obviously lol

 

[Thorner]

9 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

Manitoba Moose, yo.

Ironic I missed that I suppose but then again I was thinking NHL 

[That Aud Smell]

13 minutes ago, Thorner said:

Ironic I missed that I suppose but then again I was thinking NHL 

but it's not quite a fit.

as someone pointed out upthread about deer -- the plural of deer is deer. 

it's the same with moose - the welcome meese/mooses yolk upthread notwithstanding.

the plural of mammoth is mammoths. so it'd be funky to have it be just "mammoth."

even so, the plural of avalanche is avalanches.

[Thorner]

2 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

but it's not quite a fit.

as someone pointed out upthread about deer -- the plural of deer is deer. 

it's the same with moose - the welcome meese/mooses yolk upthread notwithstanding.

the plural of mammoth is mammoths. so it'd be funky to have it be just "mammoth."

even so, the plural of avalanche is avalanches.

Oh I thought the plural of mammoth was mammoth 

Even weirder name 

And my mistake 

[Taro T]

1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said:

None, as you noted (or was noted) above.

Stanford Cardinal is the only sports team/program that I can think of that has a singular version of an animal as its mascot.

Wait - isn't there a Lynx team in the WNBA? (If that counts.)

I also like Mammoth because they can play on the word having become an adjective.

The Cardinal to which the Stanford Cardinal refers is the color cardinal red, not the bird by the same name.

The way this kid has heard the story of how that became their mascot is that Elway's dad was the football coach at the time they decided to stop calling themselves the Stanford Indians and he came up with the idea because they were "the Harvard of the West."  It's a takeoff of the Harvard Crimson.  As told by a Stanford graduate.

[SwampD]

3 hours ago, steveoath said:

Mammoth, Outlaws or HC? So the logos sway you?

Images from Daily face off on insta

Is that a sasquatch face in the mountains of the Hockey Club jersey? If so, that's the winner.

[Taro T]

17 minutes ago, SwampD said:

Is that a sasquatch face in the mountains of the Hockey Club jersey? If so, that's the winner.

How ####ing hard is it to go with the obvious: the Utah Fighting Mormons (Mormen?).

Either that or play off the Jazz with the Utah Punk Rock.  They could use that same logo that was proposed for the Hockey Club.  😉 

[Weave]

55 minutes ago, SwampD said:

Is that a sasquatch face in the mountains of the Hockey Club jersey? If so, that's the winner.

Did not notice.  Me likey.

[thewookie1]

1 minute ago, Weave said:

Did not notice.  Me likey.

Love the logo, hate the name

[steveoath]

1 hour ago, SwampD said:

Is that a sasquatch face in the mountains of the Hockey Club jersey? If so, that's the winner.

Yup. There was a chat about it on a podcast (I forget which - possibly 32t). Theory goes that they could keep Utah hockey club, use the yeti image as that’s not the bit that the cooler company have copyright over. 

Edited 22 hours ago by steveoath
Edit to add - the hope being that the fans unofficially call themselves the Yeti

[Thorner]

Should be the Utah Yettay

 

[Broken Ankles]

What about the Utah Kolobs? The Utah Magic Underwear?  The Utah Caffeine Free?   What kind of focus group is the team working with here?  
I’d vote Mammoth but I enjoy the name affiliation with a great ski town in my neck of the woods.  

[shrader]

4 hours ago, Thorner said:

Should be the Utah Yettay

 

They wanted yeti but they couldn’t work out a deal with the cooler company. I’m not so sure how legit this fan boy actually is. Even outlaws was a last second addition. Their original final 3 made it very obvious that mammoth was what they wanted. 
 

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/43615454/utah-hockey-club-hold-arena-fan-vote-pick-permanent-name-yeti-rejected-patent-office

[DarthEbriate]

20 hours ago, Thorner said:

Every single nfl team ends with an “S” WOW did not realize that till now 

The NFL's only new team name since the Ravens in 1996 is the Commanders -- who briefly had the FT instead. (The Texans reused an old NFL name from the 1950s.)

I think if the NFL did some expanding now, there'd be some newfangled "S"-less plural names to avoid copyrights.

[shrader]

9 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:

The NFL's only new team name since the Ravens in 1996 is the Commanders -- who briefly had the FT instead. (The Texans reused an old NFL name from the 1950s.)

I think if the NFL did some expanding now, there'd be some newfangled "S"-less plural names to avoid copyrights.

It has to be damn near impossible to pick a name at this point.  Of course people are going to be upset with the final choice when there are that many legal loopholes to jump through. 

[North Buffalo]

19 hours ago, thewookie1 said:

The Meese obviously lol

 

I hate meeses to pieces

[Jorcus]

Kind of interesting comparison to the Tage hit the other night when The Wilds Hartman takes a face off against Ottawa's best center in Stutzle and hits him with an upward slash then crashes his head to the Ice. I don't see where there was big response from Ottawa. They were way ahead during the game and Hartman was challenging other players like Harmonic to fight before this, but no one took him up on it. A preventative fight could have saved that ugly play from happening. Well Hartman gets 10 games off which he deserves.

 

 

[steveoath]

Kevin weekes know something?