Utah Mammoth Trivia
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46 free Utah Mammoth trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Utah Mammoth are the NHL's newest franchise, created in April 2024 when Ryan Smith bought the hockey assets of the Arizona Coyotes and the league declared it an expansion team rather than a relocation. This Mammoth trivia quiz covers the whole short, strange story: the Golden Eagles and Grizzlies who skated in Salt Lake City first, the 2002 Olympic ice, the $1.2 billion expansion fee, the season played as 'Utah Hockey Club', the 20-name Qualtrics poll, the Yeti trademark that fell through, the Wasatch idea that lasted a day, and the fan vote that produced 'Mammoth' in May 2025. There are questions on the Delta Center and its renovations, Clayton Keller's captaincy, Dylan Guenther's first goal, Logan Cooley's four-goal night, Tij Iginla, Andre Tourigny, Mikhail Sergachev's chickens, Jazz Bear filling in as mascot, Tusky, and the 2026 season with no shootouts that ended in the franchise's first playoff berth. Easy questions sit beside genuinely hard ones about the naming bracket and the ECHL Grizzlies. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedic and reference sources before publishing, and each question carries a citation. For more, try our NHL trivia and hockey trivia pages.
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Q 01Which club was the NHL's newest before Utah arrived?
Seattle Kraken
Seattle Kraken, who arrived in 2021 and stocked their roster through an expansion draft; Utah skipped that step and played its first game less than six months after the league approved it.
Q 02The Coyotes went 'inactive' when Utah took their players in 2024, echoing which NFL team's 1990s relocation?
Cleveland Browns
Cleveland Browns: their players and staff became the Baltimore Ravens in 1996 while the name, history and records stayed behind, and Cleveland got its team back three years later.
Q 03Before the move to Utah, the Coyotes spent two seasons in a rink on which university's campus?
Arizona State University
Arizona State University's Mullett Arena, built for college hockey, held about 5,000 fans; after Tempe voters rejected a new arena in 2023, the Coyotes' owner conceded it was not suited to the NHL.
Q 04Mammoth owner Ryan Smith dropped out of which university to build his tech company, then finished his degree in 2016?
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University: Smith left in his junior year to build a software firm with his father and brother, and only went back to complete his management degree more than a decade later.
Q 05About how much did Ryan Smith pay the NHL for the Utah franchise in 2024?
$1.2 billion
$1.2 billion, nearly double the highest fee an expansion team had paid before; Smith closed the deal through the league without ever speaking to the Coyotes' owner.
Q 06Under what temporary name did Utah play its inaugural NHL season?
Utah Hockey Club
Utah Hockey Club was a stopgap: approved in April 2024 and playing by October, the team had under six months, too little time to settle on a permanent name and logo.
Q 07Which platform's renamed team handle leaked the Mammoth name a week before the official reveal in May 2025?
YouTube
YouTube: the club's channel handle flipped to @UtahMammoth, screenshots spread before the channel was taken offline, and officials refused to confirm anything for a week.
Q 08Which name, widely expected even by Utah's players, was blocked by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office?
Yeti
Yeti was refused as too easily confused with existing brands, and the cooler maker that owns the name would not agree to share it, so the club dropped its front-runner.
Q 09Which mountain-range name spent one day on Utah's final naming ballot before 'Outlaws' replaced it?
Wasatch
Wasatch was a late addition meant to keep a snow-creature mascot alive, but one night of fan voting at the arena changed the club's mind and it was swapped out the next day.
Q 10Which goaltender won a franchise-record 38 games for the Mammoth in 2025-26?
Karel Vejmelka
Karel Vejmelka was drafted by Nashville in 2015 but never played for them; he reached the NHL from the Czech league at 25 and appeared in 64 of Utah's 82 games that season.
Q 11Which survey platform, co-founded by owner Ryan Smith, ran the Utah Mammoth naming polls?
Qualtrics
Qualtrics began in the Smith family basement in 2002; two decades later its surveys carried the name search through four rounds and more than 850,000 votes.
Q 12Rock black and salt white are two of the Mammoth's three official colours; what is the third?
Mountain blue
Mountain blue, chosen for Utah's winter sports and its clear skies; rock black stands for night in the mountains and volcanic desert rock, salt white for snow and the salt flats.
Q 13What is hidden in the top of the mammoth's head in the Utah Mammoth's primary logo?
Mountain peaks
Q 21What league first did Utah achieve during its 2025-26 season?
A full 82 games without a single shootout
A full 82 games without a single shootout: no team had managed it since the tiebreaker arrived in 2005-06, because every Utah game that went past regulation was settled in overtime, six of them as losses.
Q 22Which mascot filled in for Utah during its inaugural season?
Jazz Bear
Jazz Bear was recruited by video: head coach Andre 'Bear' Tourigny greeted him with 'Hey Bear! It's Coach Bear', and the basketball mascot spent the winter as 'Hockey Bear'.
Q 23What is the name of the Utah Mammoth's mascot, unveiled in October 2025?
Tusky
Mountain peaks crown the 'Mountain Mammoth', and one of them traces the outline of Utah; the logo fronts only the home jersey, because the road one kept its stair-step UTAH lettering.
Q 14Days after the NHL approved Utah's team in April 2024, what drew more than 12,000 fans to the Delta Center?
A player welcome rally
A player welcome rally: a week after their last game in Arizona they landed to find hundreds of young skaters at the airport, then took turns firing up the arena crowd.
Q 15Which suburb hosts the Mammoth's purpose-built practice facility?
Sandy
Sandy: the owners bought an entire shopping mall there, The Shops at South Town, and put two NHL-size rinks and the team offices on the site while the stores stayed open.
Q 16Who was Utah's first-ever draft pick, taken sixth overall in 2024?
Tij Iginla
Tij Iginla, son of Hall of Famer Jarome Iginla, earned the pick with a breakout year: 47 goals for Kelowna, after scoring just six the season before with Seattle's junior team.
Q 17Whom did Utah name its first captain on October 4, 2024?
Clayton Keller
Clayton Keller had led the Coyotes in goals, assists and points the season before; the club he came from had played three seasons with no captain at all after trading its last one in 2021.
Q 18Whom did Utah beat 5-2 in its first regular-season game on October 8, 2024?
Chicago Blackhawks
Chicago Blackhawks trailed 3-0 before they scored; Utah then won its next two games in overtime in New York, a perfect start for a team that had not existed six months earlier.
Q 19Who scored the first goal in Utah's NHL history?
Dylan Guenther
Dylan Guenther one-timed a Michael Kesselring pass into the net on opening night, then sealed the win with an empty-net goal in the final minute.
Q 20Utah won 38 games in its first NHL season; which club holds the first-year record with 51?
Vegas Golden Knights
Vegas Golden Knights won 51 games in 2017-18 and rode them all the way to the Stanley Cup Final in their first season; Utah's debut finished 38-31-13.
Tusky burst out of a giant block of ice before the first home game under the new name; the owners said the name leans into the team's 'Tusks Up' rallying cry.
Q 24Which nickname did Utah fans adopt for themselves during the team's first NHL season?
Clubbers
Clubbers was the fans' play on the stopgap name their team carried all that first winter, when it had no real nickname.
Q 25Which AHL club became Utah's top minor-league affiliate in 2024?
Tucson Roadrunners
Tucson Roadrunners did not change hands with the NHL players: the Coyotes' old owner held on to the farm club, and Utah simply signed on as its parent team.
Q 26Which minor-league club played in Salt Lake City from 1969 to 1994 before becoming the Detroit Vipers?
Golden Eagles
Golden Eagles played 25 seasons in three leagues before being sold and moved to suburban Detroit, which left Salt Lake City without pro hockey for a year.
Q 27The 1995 Utah Grizzlies arrived as reigning IHL champions from which city?
Denver
Denver: the Grizzlies won the league title there in their only season, then had to leave when the NHL's Quebec Nordiques moved in as the Colorado Avalanche.
Q 28The Delta Center staged figure skating at the 2002 Olympics, so which arena hosted the gold-medal hockey games?
Maverik Center
Maverik Center, then called the E Center, opened in suburban West Valley City in 1997; Canada beat the host Americans there to win its first men's hockey gold since 1952.
Q 29Salt Lake City was awarded the 2034 Winter Olympics at a July 2024 IOC session in which city?
Paris
Paris hosted the vote two days before its own Summer Games opened; the award means the Delta Center, a skating venue in 2002, is now planned as the 2034 Olympic hockey rink.
Q 30Which Utah businessman privately financed the Delta Center, opened in 1991?
Larry H. Miller
Larry H. Miller, a car dealer who owned the city's NBA team, built the arena to house it; in 2020 his family sold both to Ryan Smith, who added hockey four years later.