The Utah Hockey Club had a relatively successful first season in Utah, and president of hockey operations Chris Armstrong made news at the end-of-season exit interviews when he confirmed that a permanent team name will be announced “in the coming months”.
Former Colorado College goaltender Carsen Musser committed to St. Thomas, it was announced Friday.
It hasn’t been the smoothest path for Utah HC’s Yamamoto, but he’s making a strong case that he still belongs in the NHL.
Scarred Jazz fans stretching across different decades have good reason for wondering if some players share their intense commitment to the franchise. In recent times, they have watched Gordon Hayward forsake the team for the glitz of the more glamorous Boston Celtics. The hometown loyalists serenaded Hayward with chants of his name in his last game in Utah, but ultimately it fell on deaf ears.
Utah Hockey Club's AHL affiliate, the Tucson Roadrunners, has been eliminated from the AHL's Calder Cup Playoffs.
The Utah Hockey Club has announced that they’ve signed goaltender Jaxson Stauber to a two-year, two-way extension. The deal comes with an AAV of $775,000 at the NHL level and $350,000 in the AHL.
Where are all the Mammoth fans at?
Utah Hockey Club was holding a vote among fans to help pick the team's new name and Lively had a strong opinion. The paleontologist and his coworkers want to see the club called the Utah Mammoth. Workers at a construction site for a dam near Fairview in Huntington Canyon had been using heavy machinery to dig through a 20-foot-thick muck, pulling up branches and logs. “All of a sudden they pulled one up and that wasn't a log — that was a tusk,” said Martha Hayden, now a paleontology assistant at the Utah Geological Survey.
Utah Hockey Club has brought quite a change for the people of Utah, first with the addition of a second major sports team bringing lots of excitement and adding another fun event to attend alongside Utah Jazz games.
Jon Cooper laughed off the question and diverted the conversation to Park City's ski slopes. The Tampa Bay Lightning head coach was holding court for his morning media availability at Delta Center when his team was in town to face Utah Hockey Club in March. Since Ryan Smith and his Smith Entertainment Group acquired the Arizona Coyotes' assets last April and created Utah Hockey Club, Cooper's name has been thrown around.
With the IIHF World Championship on the horizon and a handful of Utah Hockey Club players heading overseas to represent their countries, now is a great time to break down the tournament for fans who may be new to international hockey.
Logan Cooley pushed up in the defensive zone as he saw the puck stall at the blue line. The center collected a chipped pass from Barrett Hayton and hurtled forward. With a defenseman in front of him and the option to dish to Nick Schmaltz on the left, Cooley instead picked his shot off the rush. The goal helped lift Utah Hockey Club to a 5-2 win over the then league-best Winnipeg Jets on a January night at Delta Center.
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The Utah Hockey Club drastically improved their draft position on Monday night.
When the Utah Hockey Club selected Tij Iginla with the sixth pick and took 10 other players in the first draft since the team moved to Salt Lake City, fans were excited, thinking they would be in the NHL right away. General manager Bill Armstrong tried to temper expectations, telling them, "No, it takes some time." After an unexpected victory off the ice Monday night in the draft lottery, the expectations for the club's future are Rocky Mountain high once again. "It's a game-changer for us," Armstrong said on a post-lottery video call with reporters.
It took a year and 21 different candidate names to land on the Utah Mammoth.
