Utah unveils Mammoth as permanent name of NHL team in Salt Lake City

Mark Anderson · The Associated Press

· Posted: May 07, 2025 10:47 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

The NHL squad successful Salt Lake City is present known arsenic the Utah Mammoth.

Owners Ryan and Ashley Smith unveiled the franchise's imperishable sanction Thursday greeting aft much than a twelvemonth of instrumentality input and voting.

"From Day 1, we committed that this squad would beryllium built with and for the radical of Utah, and we are excited to observe today's motorboat with the full state," they said successful a connection announcing the name. "The assemblage chose the Utah Mammoth brand, and it stands arsenic a awesome of who we are, wherever we came from and the unstoppable unit we're gathering together."

Mammoth replaces the inaugural play placeholder sanction Utah Hockey Club, which was besides 1 of the 3 finalists. Yeti was taken retired of information erstwhile the cooler institution bearing that sanction could not travel to a copyright statement with Utah ownership, and Wasatch — a notation to the state's upland scope — was rapidly replaced arsenic an enactment by Outlaws.

The Mammoth are maintaining the aforesaid black, airy bluish and achromatic colour strategy and the roadworthy jerseys with UTAH diagonally down the front. The logo includes a motion to the mountains, the signifier of the authorities and a curved tusk that forms a "U."

Mammoth fossils person been recovered passim Utah, including a implicit skeleton successful Huntington Canyon successful 1988.

Utah has an breathtaking summertime up holding the 4th prime successful the draft, the archetypal signifier of arena renovations taking spot and much than $20 cardinal US successful wage headdress abstraction for wide manager Bill Armstrong to marque a splash successful escaped bureau and trades. With young endowment similar skipper Clayton Keller, budding prima guardant Logan Cooley, two-time Stanley Cup champion Mikhail Sergachev and emerging goaltender Karel Vejmelka, the Mammoth could contend for a playoff spot arsenic soon arsenic adjacent season.

The rebranding comes little than 13 months since Smith Entertainment radical bought the squad antecedently known arsenic the Arizona Coyotes from erstwhile proprietor Alex Meruelo and moved it to Salt Lake City. The Coyotes played successful the Phoenix country since 1996 aft moving determination from Winnipeg, wherever the squad was the archetypal Jets.