The Utah Hockey Club

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/40344646/new-utah-team-use-utah-hockey-club-inaugural-season

Such imagination 

Probably gathered around a table and decided yeah let's just do what the Washington Redskins did and for go the Utah Hockey Club 

so many cool names to pick from too 

Outlaws, Bandits, Mammoth , Elk  Skinwalkers etc 

@I-Got-5-On-It

I believe it's only temporary for their 1st season, and will have a state wide think tank with their fans to find their forever name moving forward.

You are correct. Organization didn't want to rush the design since this was basically an overnight type thing. They will have team name and logo's next year. 

The Utah Pub Crawlers 

Utah HC was one of the better choices imo

Mammoth my fave of the bunch

Mountaineers was interesting 

Couple others pretty good

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On that note did you ever hear the deal Bettman made with the putrid owner of the Arizona Coyotes? This shit for bag got to settle the franchise at a massive profit while retaining the right to be the owner if a franchise is ever award to Arizona again. This guy is awful. There is no reason this POS should ever be allowed to be an owner again. This coming from a former Yotes season ticket holder. 

It's just like the NFL when Washington Football Team was named temporary

@packersbackers

@GASportsDoc

True that 

Probably end up putting it to a state referendum  and end up coming up something more lame  

@jesron1269

Even though what kind of lunatic would bring a franchise back to Phoenix after all that has happened  

@I-Got-5-On-It

It’s too big of a market (4th largest metro area in the country) to not offer an expansion franchise. Once there is an expansion.  

The Utah Yeti seems to be picking up a lot of traction with locals & team executives 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti

Lel

@jesron1269

 You could say the same about Houston, Tx 

One of the largest cities in the US to never have had a hockey team, bar the Aeros back in the day in the WHA when Gordie Howe and his sons used to play for them 

I even saw in a youtube video about potential franchise expansions to 36 teams  Atlanta was one mentioned 

Imagine a new expansion team in Atlanta (again ) and after 6-7 years of struggle they move to Quebec 

Atlanta first city to lose three teams to Canadian cities 

@I-Got-5-On-It

Except there are TONS and I mean TONS of Midwest, Northeast, Chicago and Canadians have seem to constantly move into the AZ making hockey a pretty big market. I for one am from South Dakota and have hockey in my blood. Again read a little more into what actually happened here. Its all ownership and very little fan base/city/investors.