By james art 
The Utah hockey club makes a change in the list of options that fans can vote for for a permanent nickname.
The team announced on Thursday that out of law would already be a choice, along with Mammoth and Hockey Club. Wasatch, the name of the Utah mountain range, was one of the three original options offered by the team on Wednesday, but the first night of voting fans changed the team’s opinion.
Outlaws was one of the six previous finalists in a worse stage of voting.
“Hey, hockey fans on Utah! We listened to your reviews and dug into all the Qualtrics data from last night’s survey. It is clear to the name of the team that they should be in the mixture instead of Wasatch, so we exchange it”, The team published on social media. “Studies will continue in the arena on Friday, Sunday and Tuesday to vote for Utah Mamut, Hockey Club Utah and Utah.
“Excited to see the voices turn.”
The Smith Entertainment Group announced on Wednesday that fans will be able to vote at the iPad stations created at Delta Center for four matches, which started with the loss of overtime on Wednesday by Pittsburgh penguins.
“Voting at this stage of the process will be done only at the arena.” Smith Entertainment Group Executive Director Mike Mogan said. “We do this because this time we include names and potential logos with them. … Because of the logo we do this only in the arena and we do not show them publicly so that we can protect these images. “
Utah plans to announce the winning name and logo at a time that will be determined after the end of this season and before the beginning of next season. The hockey club was the name chosen for the introductory season of Utah in the NHL after co -owners Ryan and Ashley Smith purchased the contracts of the executives, coaches and players of Arizona Coyoti.
Voting fans will continue when Utah hosts Columbus’s blue jackets on Friday, St. Louis Blues on Sunday and Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday. Maugan estimates that Jua will have approximately 15,000 fans in each of the four home games that will be able to vote.
Maughan said that it should be determined if there would be another stage needed after the one to choose the winning name and a logo, but in the end the fans would have the last word because Ryan and Ashley Smith see the team as “community asset. “
“[The Smiths] Take a look at this as an exciting opportunity to do something that has never been done in the history of professional sports, which includes fans at this level and go through them throughout this process as we strive to name a team together, “Mogan said. “We are very excited about this. They are very focused on the community and community -oriented people and we are excited that we can announce this next stage of the process in which we will work with everyone for the name of the team. “
The fan survey will be conducted using a methodology provided by Qualtrics, an experience management company that Ryan Smith co -founded. The same process was used to select Mountain Basketball Uniforms, worn by Utah Jazz NBA.
This is the fourth stage of the fans’ participation, which started with an open invitation for proposals. These proposals were limited by voting to the top 20 and subsequently the first six. The hockey club and the mammoth are the other names of the vote of this top six. Wasatch was a new submission to the place of Yeti, but it was replaced by the outlaws.
Utah decided to move from Yeti after failing to reach an agreement on a joint existence with the more cooling company of Yeti, for which Maugan said clothes or other licensed equipment. “
The name Wasatch is a tribute to the Wasatch mountains, moving from the border of Uta-Idaho south to central Utah.
During the study, fans would be able to choose from different combinations of names and related logos, including what they would look like on T -shirts and on the ice.
Although the Service for Patents and Trademarks of the United States has rejected the applications for a hockey club and mammoth, along with the 18 other names of the final 20, Maugan said that this is not a surprise and that there are plans to resolve any Problems with the names under consideration with the names under consideration with the names with the names under consideration.
“This is a very standard part of any process name,” Maugan said. “Now, obviously, we are trying to do things in a much more condensed way than it has ever been done in professional sports so far, so we speed up the whole process. But nothing is unexpected. … We know about all those for months and have strategies to deal with everything that will come out of the trademark office about any of the names before on the list or which remain on the list today. “