If I have learned anything in my years of being a Utah sports homer, it’s that the only thing Utah fans love more than the team themselves, is when the players of the teams give them love back.
This means that If you somehow, someway, attended every Jazz and Hockey Club game in Salt Lake City so far this year you would have been present for 38 games, and witnessed a total of 9 wins between both squads.
With Utah in the midst of battling for a wild card spot, 6 points behind current placeholder for the second wild card, Calgary, they need all the help they can get.
So outside the chatter and noise from puzzled Knights fans who had rarely seen their team lose in such a fashion in the fortress, I made sure to make it a point to try and find out what fellow NHL teams had to say about the new kid in town.
Despite “Yeti” being heavily rumored as Utah’s full time branding this next year, it is far from a certainty at this point, especially with trademark issues to sort through, leaving hope for other finalist.