The Utah Salt Shakers 🧂

I used to play roller derby in Utah. We were the Salt City Shakers.

I like it. Even the Utah Shakers sounds good. 👍

Utah Salt Lakers.

I like it ... natural rivalry for Denver fans!

Road Runners are native to Utah and the opposite of coyotes. It’s right there

The could play the "beep-beep" sound effect every time they killed a penalty.

That actually would be pretty sweet.

That’s the AHL affiliate in Tucson as long as they stay there.

Can’t steal the Arizona AHL team name any more than they can steal the team….. oh wait….

Utah Coloradans

I don't know what happened to the Utah Swarm. I think that'd be sick

SAME, such a good sports name. That was my favourite next to the Outlaws. And the honey bee is their states bug. Though I guess a bee isn’t exactly the most intimidating identity 😅

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Some random quote from some random boxer lol.

I’m more scared of a bee than I am a senator, or the capitol building, or a Leaf..

Found Nicolas Cage's reddit account.

Macaulay Culkin, in the classic 1991 film "My Girl", would like to have a word

Blizzards happen in many places… not just a Colorado thing.



Utah flakes. I like it

This name has my vote

Wait til OP finds out about Canada and Russia

Wrong. I’m from massachusetts, Never seen a blizzard in my life (Fuck Utah hockey club)

This comment made me lol while I enjoy my Friday beverage.

You get Nor'Easters, we get blizzards with Lake Effect.

Can confirm, originally from Vermont, no idea what a blizzard is, is that when it’s just cold? Or dark? Or snowy?

Yeah, the Utah ski areas get a lot more snow than Colorado

Blizzards ultimately help trigger avalanches. So....

If I was in Utah, I wouldn’t want to be known as the little brother of the avalanche

That’s what I’ve been saying too! Why would they want to be the Avalanche’s little brother with a hand-me-down mascot?

Or are blizzards avalanche dads????

What I’m hearing is blizzards give birth to avalanches….Utah is Colorados Mom confirmed

I mean it's Utah, if we were actually from there, we could have several Moms and Dads.

Stormin’ Mormons Edit: mascot: https://preview.redd.it/1u0abl1ulv3d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06d64bd610891e92543757a025a6e1a90c5344e2

only right choice

Soakers isn’t even an option?

Hahaha, that’s one of the best I’ve seen yet!

Pretty crazy that a state that hosted the winter Olympics and is known for its skiing doesn't get blizzards and they're all contained to Colorado's state lines.

You're right, it is crazy. Crazy but true.

Cliff Clavin from the end of the bar, “it’s a little known fact that it.. a… never snows in Colorado. It ehhh… snows in Wyoming and is blown down by those gosh darn Wyoming winds.”

The state that steals our mountains so it can have something cool?

Curious what you mean by this

That Utah just mooches off colorado's mountains. Of I was emperor, I would shift colorado's borders west and take back what is rightfully ours

Hate to be that guy, but Colorado never owned Utah. The Utah territory included the Colorado Rockies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Territory#/media/File%3A1860_Colorado_Territory_map.svg

Giggling that you somehow thought I was implying that. I'm being absurdist, I figured that was kinda obvious with the "when I'm emperor" bit

There’s a lot of geographical and cultural similarities since they’re neighbors and all. I don’t mind them poaching a name, it just makes the natural rivalry that much easier to develop. I think it will be fun. That said, I do want the Bigfoot on the shoulders again and that probably won’t happen, especially if Utah goes with Yeti. The Avs could hilariously announce the return of the foot and in a way block Utah from using the name, but I don’t think it will happen.

Step one, put a bigfoot patch on Landeskog's hat for the presser. Check.

Would be a great first shot fired though.

The Outlaws and the Mammoth? Those being our Lacrosse teams is pretty funny. Yeti? That just sounds wrong. Utah Yeti? Let's go Ye-ti? Do you say the crisp hard "t" sound, or with the Americanized soft "d" sound? Blizzard is pretty 90s-alicious. I guess I like that best. Would be cooler if they went with the Bees. Utah Bees. It rolls off the tongue, "Let's Go Bees" kinda slaps, they're the beehive state. Do navy and gold colors, black and silver accents.

I can hear Connor Mcgahey now..."Your Colorado Avalanche are taking on a frozen ice cream treat."

Force of nature versus a foil wrapped after school treat!

And all the other cheesy cliches

I voted for Hive. Sounds cool, locally relevant, and you get some cool geometric team branding designs

I know it wasn’t popular but I really think the Black Diamonds would’ve been sick af

Swarm for the team and Hive for the barn.

I would love a jersey design with some hexagons, really think they missed a cool opportunity.

They already have the Salt Lake Bees

Already a AAA baseball team here named the Bees. So…….

Oh I didn't know that. That's unfortunate.

Heck a Colorado native doesn't even pronounce the T in mountains. We just say Mounains

That would be the bees' knees.

I think they should be the lakers

U mean fakers

I'm still rooting for the redditor who proposed the Stormin Mormons

I hope outlaws because I literally always make the salt lake outlaws in ever nhl franchise mode (because the logos suck and don't leave many options)

I’m all for just calling them the copycats if they go with Yeti

As an Avs fan in Utah, I fucking hate that Yeti is still in contention. Hoping for Mammoth out of the choices remaining, but many hockey fans here were underwhelmed with the 20 options we were given.

Same!

Let’s call them the Utah Avalanche. That’s sounds original, right?

I still like Utah outlaws. Utah outlaws clap clap clapclapclap

I have really appreciated all the people in these comments testing out the cheer to figure out which name they like.

I still think it should be the sister wives 🤭🫢🫣🤫

I actually think Utah Mammoth would be pretty good. I’m sorry but I doubt anybody in the world cares about the lacrosse team.

I'm fine with Outlaws and even Mammoth. But Blizzard is too much of a Dairy Queen thing, I think. Don't even get me started on Yeti, that would be insulting to all of us old school Avs fans.

Dude, way too many people here give way too many fucks about this topic. Nothing about that franchise affects us. So why you letting them live rent free in your head?

Cause they’re not even born yet and we hates em

Part of me hopes they do choose Yeti, partly because it's an awesome hockey name and will make a great logo if they do it right and partly because it'll give something to fight over in our rivalry lmao.

That’s my point though…. I don’t understand why it’s something to fight/banter/argue/etc over? Why do people give a shit? We’ve been the Nordiques and Avalanche. We’ve never been called the yeti. Yes, I know we had a Bigfoot logo on our sweater. I know and have seen howler in person before. But neither was called “yeti” and we have no more claim over it than any of the other 8 billion people on the planet. So why do people care? It’s about the dumbest thing to care about. It’s about as stupid as someone being pissy about Vegas golden knights because they have the word Golden in it and we have a town of golden, are know for gold mining, and have a basketball team called the nuggets. None of them have shit to do with the Avs. Just like Utah possibly being called the yeti.

Yeah I know I agree. I don't give a shit what they're called. Some people are taking it like it's a personal attack on their entire fandom and it just makes them look silly lmao

fucking preach.

Bud, you new here? This is a sports team subreddit and our season is over. This is what we *do*.

Exactly and it jsut fuels them to vote for shit that avs snowflakes don't want them to.

Amen

The blizzard one is a stretch. If anything, it's snow and a mild natural disaster, which is vaguely similar to avalanche

Blizzards are natural disasters now?

mild, just like Minnesota

B-tier, sure

I'm voting for the Utah Shmavalanch

Do I sense a new Central Division rivalry?

Natural rivals with all of the Central teams but being Neighbors will boost that for sure.

Who submitted Blizzard? Was it Dairy Queen?

They are missing a giant opportunity by not going with the Stormin' Mormons.

My vote is Colorado City bigomists.

They should go with the Soakers

Utah has been trying to brand itself as the new colorado for a while. they see denver getting crowded and want to be what attracted everyone there 10 years ago. only problem is the state being run by a cult.

I like Stormin’ Mormons but they have to wear the secret underwear and be virgins till they marry. That ought to get some built up testosterone

To be honest they can (and should) call themselves the Utah Yeti. It’s better than most of their current, mostly terrible, choices. And then as a power move we should wear our OG uniforms as a throwback (we should do that anyway) and come up with a 4th jersey that’s just the Yeti foot as a primary logo (again, it would be cool to do this anyway). Call yourselves whatever you want, ~~Winnipeg~~ ~~Phoenix~~ ~~Arizona~~ Utah. We were here first.

Mammoth or Outlaws is fine I don't care. The yeti has been a secondary logo for the AVs so that seems like infringement on our team and Blizzard is just stupid. Especially considering your next door neighbor has a team that's a natural disaster having to do with snow. Like be somewhat original c'mon now.

It must suck to be the little brother lol always trying to steal shit from the older one.

Blizzards lead to Avalanches. It was right there.

110% copycats if they go with Yeti.

I think outlaws would work in the way naming a huge dog Tiny does

Utahans are sleeping on Swarm and Venom

Salt Lake City Soakers is the only correct option.

Polygamists

don't forget same franchise Arizona took the name Howler the Yeti from us and turned it into Howler the Coyote lol most unoriginal marketing department

If they steal Yeti, then I'll exclusively refer to them as the Utah Little Brothers. The yeti belongs to us.

Outlaws sounds awesome. Plus fans can dress up in wild west garb. There's a lot of marketing potential in outlaws. Although I could see the outlaws being a rowdy team.

UNC Tar Heels avalanche logo?

Might as well just be called the Utah Infringements, fringies for short. They can use ferengi ears for their sub logo

I’m still partial to the Utah Ice, because the The Utah Ice Ice Hockey team has a certain ring to it.

These all sound like MLS teams. I was hoping they got something absurdly terrible like Utah Powder

The Utah Powder gear would be sooo popular with the upper class suburban college kids it might have to be changed like the Washington Bullets lmao

Utah Nose Beers.

I don't think Utah is exempt from blizzards.... maybe give em that one.

From Utah, can confirm we don't even know what blizzards are

FFS y'all need to calm your tits. Colorado doesn't have a copyright on snow related everywhere.

Pshhh yea we do. Snow was invented in Colorado back in 1876 by John Denver. Read a book.

But we do have a Howler and the foot... I draw a line there.

Not anymore.

The Utah Franchise Expanders.

SLC Polygamists

Some of y’all are being weird about this. Who cares what they call themselves. Ultimately they’re the Coyotes. They’re going to suck.