First of all, it’s not “a” Wasatch. It’s THE Wasatch. As in, the Wasatch Mountains, which are in Utah. Totally makes sense. It’s apparently a word in the Ute language that means “mountain pass.”

One day after announcing three finalists for their permanent nickname, the Utah Hockey Club has replaced one of them. Wasatch, named for the Wasatch mountain range in Utah, has been swapped out with Outlaws,

And then there were three. But how did we get here? The naming of Utah’s hockey franchise — currently known as Utah Hockey Club — has become a dramatic, lengthy process because of copyright issues in seemingly every direction.