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.

Utah Hockey Club depth winger Miloš Kelemen landed on unconditional waivers Tuesday, according to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet. It’s the first step for a mutual contract termination, which will occur if he clears Wednesday.

As the Utah Hockey Club navigates its inaugural season on the ice, team executives are hard at work in the background building a permanent identity for the NHL'

Utah Hockey Club will not be moving forward with "Yeti" or "Yetis" as its team nickname following rejection by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The team will hold a new in-arena fan vote to pick a permanent name from three finalists.

Utah Hockey Club announced this week that a public contest to name the team has been narrowed down to the final three options including keeping the generic Utah Hockey Club name, Utah Mammoth and Utah Wasatch.

The franchise will use a final round of fan voting to decide among the Utah Mammoth, Utah Hockey Club and Utah Wasatch. Team officials backed away from including Yeti as a finalist after being unable to work out a co-existence agreement with Yeti Coolers to use the name in branding and merchandising.

Utah's NHL team explored every avenue to make Yeti work, but due to trademark issues, it's given up and has a new vote for fans attending the next four home games.