‘Yeti’ among 6 finalists for Utah NHL team
Ryan Smith tells McAfee how he used to be ready to elevate an NHL team to Utah (2:17) Utah Jazz and Utah hockey team owner Ryan Smith explains to Pat McAfee how rapid he used to be ready to elevate a hockey team to the convey. (2:17) Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterJun 6, 2024, 12:Forty
Ryan Smith tells McAfee how he used to be ready to elevate an NHL team to Utah (2:17)
Utah Jazz and Utah hockey team owner Ryan Smith explains to Pat McAfee how rapid he used to be ready to elevate a hockey team to the convey. (2:17)
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Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterJun 6, 2024, 12:Forty five PM ET
- Kristen Shilton is a nationwide NHL reporter for ESPN.
The NHL’s latest franchise in Utah is shut to choosing its title.
Smith Leisure Group — which owns the silent-to-be-coined team — launched Thursday the six capability nicknames Utah will take on earlier than its inaugural season begins in 2024-25: Utah Blizzard, Utah Hockey Membership (Utah HC), Utah Enormous, Utah Outlaws, Utah Venom and Utah Yeti.
The finalists were particular by a first round of fan balloting. SEM acknowledged in Thursday’s information birth that 520,000 votes got right here by in that wave, with extra than 60% of them touchdown on the six names final. Followers can vote on their different again by June 20.
Utah’s team will assign on jerseys of their first season with “UTAH” scrawled right by the front to indicate the club’s roots one day of the convey and dedication to its recent fan heinous. When the title is space upon, SEG will create a cost, mascot and branding to compare that will appear on sweaters for the 2025-26 season.
SEG is inheriting the extinct Arizona Coyoteswho were relocated to Utah in April. The Coyotes were unable to search out a permanent, NHL-caliber enviornment to play out of within the foreseeable future, and the NHL indirectly needed to aquire the franchise and re-sell it to Ryan Smith, owner of the NBA’s Utah Jazz.
The NHL’s Utah team will play out of Delta Arena, the Jazz’s home, for this coming season, with renovations anticipated one day to make the venue extra hockey-friendly.
