2024-25 NHL Thread

[Billy Hoyle]

Best of the mediocre options.  Utah Hockey Club would have been beyond lame.  Utah Wasatch was one of the worst name options I ever heard, and then replacing it with Utah Outlaws was just generic.  Colorado Mammoth are already a lacrosse team in Denver, so its not as totally unique, but its a good logo and the color scheme is cool with it.

Was personally hoping for Utah Yetis, that would have been dope.  Nonetheless, better than the Vegas Golden Knights, not as good as the Seattle Kraken.

That was the route they were going to take, but the US Patent and Trademark Office denied their application. Apparently, people would confuse a hockey team with Yeti coolers and the company refused to consider a co-existance agreement.

I was wondering why not the plural (or if "Mammoth" was the plural like "Moose"), but the teams said they chose "Mammoth" rather than "Mammoths" because "it symbolizes one team, all-in and all of Utah." The logo and colors are excellent. 

I still wish Seattle had gone with the Sockeyes instead of Kraken.

[MuggsyB]

That was the route they were going to take, but the US Patent and Trademark Office denied their application. Apparently, people would confuse a hockey team with Yeti coolers and the company refused to consider a co-existance agreement.

I was wondering why not the plural (or if "Mammoth" was the plural like "Moose"), but the teams said they chose "Mammoth" rather than "Mammoths" because "it symbolizes one team, all-in and all of Utah." The logo and colors are excellent. 

I still wish Seattle had gone with the Sockeyes instead of Kraken.

I don't know if a Mammoth could skate, but they would be better than Hasek as goalies. 

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[Hards Alumni]

That was the route they were going to take, but the US Patent and Trademark Office denied their application. Apparently, people would confuse a hockey team with Yeti coolers and the company refused to consider a co-existance agreement.

I was wondering why not the plural (or if "Mammoth" was the plural like "Moose"), but the teams said they chose "Mammoth" rather than "Mammoths" because "it symbolizes one team, all-in and all of Utah." The logo and colors are excellent. 

I still wish Seattle had gone with the Sockeyes instead of Kraken.

That's ridiculous, Yeti doesn't have a monopoly on the word Yeti, which doesn't even originate in the US.

[Billy Hoyle]

That's ridiculous, Yeti doesn't have a monopoly on the word Yeti, which doesn't even originate in the US.

fully agree, but the trademark they have is particularly strong when it comes to the simple use of "Yeti." Apparently, the biggest issue was on apparel, as Yeti had already applied to sell gear with "Yeti" on it.

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-hockey-club/2025/01/29/yetis-is-officially-not-an-option/#:~:text=The%20trademark%20application%20for%20%E2%80%9CUtah,that%20already%20owns%20the%20trademark.

[Hards Alumni]

fully agree, but the trademark they have is particularly strong when it comes to the simple use of "Yeti." Apparently, the biggest issue was on apparel, as Yeti had already applied to sell gear with "Yeti" on it.

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-hockey-club/2025/01/29/yetis-is-officially-not-an-option/#:~:text=The%20trademark%20application%20for%20%E2%80%9CUtah,that%20already%20owns%20the%20trademark.

NHL team could have won the case if they chose to, but decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze and just went with Mammoths.

[Pakuni]

NHL team could have won the case if they chose to, but decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze and just went with Mammoths.

I don't know that they could have won - appellate judges tend to give the regulatory agency lots of discretion - but even if they could have, the appeals process takes on average 15 months. Not sure the team really wanted to go another year-plus without a name on outside chance they win the appeal. The more likely outcome would be they lose - because most appeals fail - and they're back where they started.

[MU82]

I still wish Seattle had gone with the Sockeyes instead of Kraken.

My choice was Seattle Starpucks.

[Billy Hoyle]

NHL team could have won the case if they chose to, but decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze and just went with Mammoths.

I do like how they involved the fans who attended UHC games in the selection of the nickname.

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