When the public voting for the team name and logos<\/a> opened in February, Malone was initially pulling for Outlaws. However, as the Mammoth branding was announced, Malone said it \u201cjust clicked.\u201d He liked it enough to message Archer on Instagram after seeing a Mammoth tattoo he had previously done.<\/p>\nSoon enough, Malone was in the chair himself.<\/p>\n
(Kelly Quiel) Knik Archer designs the Utah Mammoth tattoo that Kelly Quiel got behind her ear at 27 Tattoo Studio.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was my first and only sports one until we win a Cup. Then I\u2019ll have my guy do some adjustments,\u201d Malone said. \u201cI put it on my forearm because I don\u2019t want to hide it. I wear short-sleeve shirts year-round, and you can know my loyalty right there. It\u2019s here and I don\u2019t care. I\u2019ve got my pride in my team. Wherever it goes, whatever may happen \u2014 that is part of me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malone opted for the official Mammoth head mark with the team\u2019s \u201cMountain Blue\u201d on the outline. Archer had to experiment with the ink colors he had in the shop to get the right shade that matched Utah\u2019s merchandise. He has since found the perfect combination and has had a total of eight people come in for Mammoth-related tattoos.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mix my own [colors]. The first one I did, I mixed three different pigments to get that blue,\u201d Archer said. \u201cI\u2019ve actually simplified it and mix two different pigments to get the blue now. Mainly because when tattoos settle on the skin, they kind of mute out a little bit. The blue that I was first using was perfectly spot on, but then I was noticing when it healed, it just felt like it needed a teeny bit more brightness.\u201d<\/p>\n
(James Malone) Mammoth tattoo done for James Malone on his arm by Knik Archer at 27 Tattoo Studio.<\/p>\n
Kelly Quiel is one of the latest customers to get the \u201cMountain Blue\u201d inked on her skin. Quiel started playing hockey in high school \u2014 her husband was on the same team \u2014 and picked it back up in 2016 when she joined a women\u2019s program.<\/p>\n
\u201cHockey has been a big part of our family\u2019s identity for a really long time,\u201d Quiel said.<\/p>\n
It is no surprise, then, that Quiel wholly embraced the Mammoth during their inaugural season. She was looking for a way to represent this moment in time, Quiel said, but didn\u2019t want to get the whole logo tattooed. So, she went with a small outline of Utah with an \u201cM\u201d carved into the bottom, placed behind her ear.<\/p>\n
(Kelly Quiel) Kelly Quiel shows her Mammoth-inspired tattoo done by Knik Archer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt like a big deal this past year. When they had the logo and it had this little Utah in it \u2014 Utah has meant so much to me for so long. And to have a little nod to our hockey team, it just had to be done,\u201d Quiel said. \u201cI kind of pictured myself getting a Utah tattoo anyway, and then I just loved the subtlety \u2014 the nod of the \u2018M.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Quiel had never gotten a tattoo before setting up her appointment with Archer. And since she was already there for one, Quiel decided to get multiple.<\/p>\n
\u201cTruly insane. I got three all at the same time,\u201d Quiel said with a laugh. \u201cI have one for my grandmas and one for my kids. So my top three favorite things \u2014 my kids, my grandmothers and my hockey team.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Jerry Van Ieperen, a Utah Mammoth fan who originally cheered for the Calgary Flames, he wanted his tattoo to represent his entire hockey journey.<\/p>\n
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah fans celebrate the first goal of the season as Utah Hockey Club’s first NHL season kicks off at the Delta Center against the Chicago Blackhawks in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024.<\/p>\n
Van Ieperen\u2019s sister took him to his first hockey game (the Salt Lake Golden Eagles) when he was 10 and, at the time, they were the affiliate for the Calgary Flames. That was automatically his NHL team, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI honestly thought I would be a Flames fan for a few years, and as there is more and more coverage of the Mammoth, I would convert over,\u201d Van Ieperen said. \u201cBut it happened pretty fast. I went all Utah.\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Ieperen envisioned with a rough idea of what he wanted the artwork on his upper arm to look like and brought it to an artist at True Culture Tattoos in West Valley City.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe came up with a design and I was blown away,\u201d Van Ieperen said.<\/p>\n
The tattoo \u2014 which took six hours to complete \u2014 features a Mammoth storming out of the mountains with two hockey players skating below. One has on a Calgary Flames jersey with the No. 12 for Van Ieperen\u2019s favorite NHL player, Jarome Iginla. Jarome\u2019s son, Tij Iginla, is now in the Mammoth system. The Utah jersey in the tattoo is No. 24 as an acknowledgement of the franchise\u2019s inaugural season.<\/p>\n
(Jerry Van Ieperen) Mamoth tattoo done for Jerry Van Ieperen by Danny at True Culture Tattoos.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hadn\u2019t been in a tattoo place in 20 years, so I had been kind of reading what to expect. I had seen a lot of people say that when they got a big tattoo, they had regret. I was kind of expecting to go home that night, like, \u2018What have I done?\u2019 But I have had no regret,\u201d Van Ieperen said. \u201cI think people are just proud that there\u2019s an NHL team and they want to display that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mammoth fans were quick to silence the doubters who did not think Utah could be an NHL market. The sold-out crowds, rowdy cheers and newfound traditions began to build a culture around the team and the community that supported it.<\/p>\n
And, now, some have made that commitment permanent.<\/p>\n
\u201cUtah supports its own,\u201d Malone said. \u201cWhen you give Utah something of our own, we love it, we cherish it and we hold onto it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knik Archer usually books out his client schedule a year in advance. The Salt Lake City tattoo artist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-79999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}