Utah picks Mammoth as mascot to end yearlong search

Goodbye, UTAH HOCKKY CLUB. Tusks up, utah mammoth.

After a 13-month process that included trademark drama and more than 850,000 ballots cast by fans in multiple rounds of voting, utah mammoth was reserved as the new name and permanent idiom Wednesday.

It replaces utah hockey club, a temperary name for its inaugural 2024-25 Season after smith entertainment group and relocated the former Arizona Coyotes Franchise to Salt Lake Category.

“When it came to name the team, we did something unprecedented – Going through for rounds of communication, including getback not only on potential names but also on potential logos,” UTAH. Owners Ryan and Ashley Smith has in a statement. “The community chose the utah mammoth brand, and it stands as a symbol of who we are, where we came from, and the unstoppable force.”

Utah Began Selling a Limited Selection of FIRST-RUN UTAH Mammoth Merchandise-Including T-Shirts, Hats, and Hoodies-At The Team Store Inside Delta Center on Wednesday. A News Conferred Featuring Nhl Commissioner Gary Bettman was also scheduled at the arena.

Mammoth Jerseys will be available for purchase letters this offseason. They will be seeing at the nhl draft in june, as utah selections will play the new sweaters. Utah won the second drawing drawing Monday night to receive the fourth overall picture.

UTAH Will Introduce a Mammoth-Inspired Mascot at Home Games Next Season, which will be revealed in the coming months.

The name was inspired by herds of mammoth hasing cleared what would become utah as their home more than 10,000 years ago. Fossils have been founded through the state, and a complete mammoth skeleton was discovered in Huntington Canyon in 1988.

“Evidence Suggests mammoths charged in herds at speeds except 25 miles per hour, comparable to the fastest skators in the NHL,” the team said in is it.

According to the Team, utah chose a singular “mammoth” rather than “mammoths” because symbolizes one team, all-in and all of utah. “

The new team Logo – The head of mammoth with a curved tusk – Features Sever Easter eggs for fans.

The snow-capped Wasatch Mountain Range Makes up the top of the mammoth’s head. The silhouette of utah and a negative space “M” is hidden on the left side of the logo. The curved tusk is meant to evoke the letter “u” for utah. “Tusks up” is the team-endorsed rallying cry for mammoth fans.

UTAH Will Wear Its New Mammoth Logo on Home Jerseys and the State’s Name on Away Jerseys, Joining the Carolina hurricanes As the only team is cured by a logo on one jersey and a wordmark on the other. According to utah, the Road Jerseys Continue Messaging from the Team’s Inaugural Season “to put a prominent focus on accounting from the state.”

The mammoth will be wear patches with the state of utah and a hockey stick on the shorts of their home jerseys and a patch with the mammoth logo on their shoulders.

The rebranding ends a process that began over a year ago.

The team was known as utah hockey club in 2024-25 after has little time to decide on a permanent nickname and logo. Design Firm Doubleday & CartWright Developed The Team’s Color Scheme – Rock Black, Salt White and Mountain Blue – While Targeting the Franchise’s SECOND SEASON FOR Official Nickname.

Seg Released A Qualtrics Poll in May 2024 Featuring 20 Potential Team Names. That produce six finalists in June for Another Fan Vote: Blizzard, Utah HC, Mammoth, Outlaws, Venom and Yeti.

During utah’s inaugural seeason, “Yeti” was widely considered to be the timestual name, even by its players. But utah announce in January that it would not be moving forward with “Yeti” or “Yetis” as a nickname after the us Patel and Trademark Opplication for “Utah Yetis” Because of the “Likelihood of CONFUGE” for consumers to other companies and brands that use the name. Among Those Parties was Yeti Coolers Llc, which makees drinkware, coolers and closing.

With Yeti and Yetis out, the team announce in January that utah hockey club, utah mammoth and utah was would be the finalists in a fan vote at delta center. Fans voted with iPads Located at stations Arena that is featured the names, logos and potential branding for ech option.

While was never a part of Previous Fan Votes, the team includes it as a new option. It referenced a local mountain range and will have allowed the team to use a “mythical snow hill creature in the form of a Yeti” as is mascot. But when the team saw early vote returns, utah wastch was quickly swapped out for utah outlaws.

While the votes were played, the team has Mammoth was “the clear Favorite” in the finished round of voting.

Utah saad the names in the finalting group we all clear of any trademark issues. There are no issues with the neighboring colorado mammoth of the National Lacrosse League. According to the Team, utah has been in regular dialyogue with kroenke sports and entertainment, which owns the lacrosse franchise, and has received for the new utah team name.

As for “utah hockey club,” the team has that name and branding will “always be a part of our history” and even be living in the years to come.