The NHL team in Salt Lake City is now known as Utah Mammut.
The owners Ryan and Ashley Smith presented the constant name of the franchise name on Wednesday after more than a year of entering and coordinating fans.
“From day 1 we undertook that this team would be built with and for the people in Utah, and we are happy to celebrate today’s start with the entire state,” they said in a statement in which the name was announced. “The Community has selected the Utah Mammoth brand and it is a symbol for who we are, where we came from and the unstoppable force we assemble.”
Mammoth replaces the placeholder of the opening season Utah Hockey Club, which was also one of the three finalists. Yeti was taken out of the exam when the cooler company with this name could not come to a copyright agreement with Utah, and Wasatch – an indication of the state’s mountain range – was quickly replaced as an option by Outlaws.
The mammoth maintains the same black, light blue and white color scheme and the street jerseys with Utah diagonally at the front. The logo contains an allusion to the mountains, the shape of the state and a curved tusk that forms a “U”.
Mammut fossils were found all over Utah, including a complete skeleton in the Huntington Canyon in 1988. The team said “tusks up” will be his rally scream.
Utah has an exciting summer in advance with the fourth choice in the draft, the first phase of the arena renovation work and more than 20 million US dollars at salary limit for General Manager Bill Armstrong to make a sensation in the free agency and trade. With young talent such as Captain Clayton Keller, the prospective star striker Logan Cooley, the double Stanley Cup champion Mikhail Sergev and the aspiring goalkeeper Karel Vejmelka, the Mammoth was able to fight for a playoff place as soon as the next season.
Rebranding has come less than 13 months since the Smith Entertainment Group, which was previously known as Arizona Coyotes, was bought by former owner Alex Meruelo and moved to Salt Lake City. The Coyotes have played in the Phoenix area since 1996 after moving from Winnipeg to where the team was the original jets.
