Bettman meeting with Ryan Smith, owner of Utah Jazz and Real Salt Lake (upd: Smith asks NHL to open expansion process)

[Yukon Joe]

I think NCAA Division I should have that rule. Each school needs a unique nickname so we don't have four teams named "Tigers" in the same conference.

I'd say "oldest gets it" except in one case: Trojans. Troy gets to be the Trojans and USC has to pick a new one. Because Trojans means "people of Troy" which Troy is, and USC is not.

See, I miss when the CFL had one team called the Roughriders, and another team called the Rough Riders - all in a 9 team league.

There are apparently 363 Division 1 schools. I think it understandable there might be some duplicate names, like Tigers. And while I do appreciate schools that go with more unusual names, like the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens, or the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin Cajuns, I can accept many of these schools might have been called the "Lions" or whatever for generations.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Tigers are just always going to be a more popular name than the Banana Slugs.

 

[rojac]

Team names should be unique. Kraken works nicely.

NHL teams names that should be jettisoned would include:
Panthers
Jets
Rangers
Senators

Well, both the Florida Panthers and the New York Rangers had their names before the Carolina Panthers and Texas Rangers came along. But the NFL Jets and MLB Senators did beat their NHL counterparts to these names.

The other name overlap is the Los Angeles Kings and Sacramento Kings. Again, the NHL kings had the name first when the LA Kings debuted in 1967. It didn't become attached to an NBA team until the Cincinnati (formerly Rochester) Royals moved to Kansas City in 1972 and adopted the kings name because there was already a Kansas City Royals. They kept the Kings name when they later moved to Sacramento.

 

[hammer42]

Sorry Utah Tigers are reserved name for a Southern Ontario (Hamilton) Franchise .

 

[Tawnos]

Well, both the Florida Panthers and the New York Rangers had their names before the Carolina Panthers and Texas Rangers came along. But the NFL Jets and MLB Senators did beat their NHL counterparts to these names.

The other name overlap is the Los Angeles Kings and Sacramento Kings. Again, the NHL kings had the name first when the LA Kings debuted in 1967. It didn't become attached to an NBA team until the Cincinnati (formerly Rochester) Royals moved to Kansas City in 1972 and adopted the kings name because there was already a Kansas City Royals. They kept the Kings name when they later moved to Sacramento.

To be fair to the Texas Rangers, the New York Rangers are named after the actual Texas Ranger Division, which was a law enforcement organization established in the 1830s.

So yes, the New York Rangers as a sports team predates the Texas Rangers. But the term Texas Rangers predates the New York Rangers.

 

[Lions67]

Not trying to offend anyone here, but please keep any Christian iconography or references out of the NHL.

So the Utah Holy Rollers is out then? Lol

 

[Baki Erg]

Nobody's suggested the Utah Underwears as a name? Disappointed.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Utah Mountain Goats.

You can actually find mountain goats in parts of the state.

 

[Yukon Joe]

Nobody's suggested the Utah Underwears as a name? Disappointed.

Sorry - I already suggested the Utah Magic Underwears.

 

[Brodie]

Over the past few days of seeing it suggested in news articles, I’ve really come around on Utah Black Diamonds. Obligatory AI jersey renders

 

[GKJ]

Over the past few days of seeing it suggested in news articles, I’ve really come around on Utah Black Diamonds. Obligatory AI jersey renders

Probably need variation to the diamond. You can’t give personification to a diamond.

 

[ghost85875]

Not trying to offend anyone here, but please keep any Christian iconography or references out of the NHL.

Utah Allah Warriors would be okay then?

 

[CokenoPepsi]

Black Diamonds is...bad.

 

[rsteen]

So, how many possible names could the Coyotes have ended up having, based on how many times they got close to relocating?

-Back to Winnipeg (would have been nice in terms of continuity of franchise records)
-Hamilton (Tigers)
-I'm sure Quebec would have kicked the tires at some point (The Quebec Jet-Coyotes-Nordiques and the Winnipeg Thrasher-Jets)
-Wasn't Portland rumored at one point? Rosebuds? Cougars? Might have been nice to bring back an old PCHA name seeing as they didn't do it for the Kraken.

Anywhere else?

 

[Brodie]

Return of the KC Scouts

 

[Llama19]

Probably need variation to the diamond. You can’t give personification to a diamond.

Tell that to my wife! LOL!

 

[GreenHornet]

Probably need variation to the diamond. You can’t give personification to a diamond.

Not to mention that a couple of those logos (especially the first one) look a little too much like the Vegas Golden Knights logo.

 

[Zrhutch]

Hey fellas, a couple months back before this story gained this much steam I started a project on nhl 24 for a 40 team league with Utah being one of the expansion teams. Basically promoted the Utah grizzlies name and iconography to the nhl with an Utah jazz color scheme. Thought ya’ll might like to see it while brands are being brainstormed. The color scheme in particular just screams Utah.

 

[KevFu]

The Utah Grizzlies are still an active team and Smith doesn't own them. That would put the Grizzlies off the table, I'd assume.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Sorry Utah Tigers are reserved name for a Southern Ontario (Hamilton) Franchise .

A team that will probably never exist because the NHL isn't going to f***ing Hamilton anytime soon, if ever.

 

[GKJ]

Sorry Utah Tigers are reserved name for a Southern Ontario (Hamilton) Franchise .

You got the trademark?

 

[hammer42]

Out of all the names , logos & jersey concepts I have seen Raptors with the black , gold & purple colour scheme seems to to be the best option in my opinion & I would buy that jersey to add to my vast jersey collection which sits at 163 jerseys of all different sports I have been collecting over the past 20 years .

 

[KevFu]

My big fear is that Smith wants to bring together the U and the Y with a Utah Utes Red and BYU Blue, which would be incredibly boring and common.

They should do something unique for the color scheme.

 

[GKJ]

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Utah Lakers?

Considering how iconic LA Lakers moniker is, probably not.

But most definitely far more appropriate name for a team in SLC.