For now, it is going by a generic placeholder name, the Utah Hockey Club. As the team underwent its rapid move in the spring (normally, sports franchise relocations unfold over years, not months), its new ownership began to submit a flurry of trademark applications for possible names.

Which Utah name do you like the best? Here's some history on the New York Islanders and how their team name wasn't a given.

On Jan. 29, the final three choices for the name of Utah's NHL team were revealed: Utah Hockey Club, Utah Mammoth, and Utah Wasatch. Fans can vote for their favorite team name in person at the next few games.

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.