The Utah Mammoth are near the highest of the Western Conference. Is it time to take a serious run and move some draft capital?
Every day Faceoff: Jeff Marek on Every day Faceoff Live talking concerning the Utah Mammoth, and in the event that they’ll be seeking to add. Is now the time to begin moving out some picks and add NHL bodies?
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Carter Hutton: “I would like to, I would like to alter topics here, Jeff and I would like to get into the Utah Mammoth. You had a likelihood to talk with Bill Armstrong the opposite day, and again, it is a team sitting on top of the Central Division where, , we thought this team, I feel everyone, as we predict within the media world, as we analyze, we thought this was a team that’s going to take a step forward. They usually’ve taken a giant step forward with their youth, with their talent, their goaltending.
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You already know, where do they go from here? Is it established order? Are they only letting these young guys run with it after you seek advice from Army?
Marek: “I don’t think that Bill Armstrong is completed for one second. I fully consider that if Aaron Ekblad would have gone to market, Utah would have been one among the teams knocking on his door. I mean, I feel all of us would have thought that Detroit could be on that list too, but I actually suspected that Utah would offer him big money, and rapidly, your top pair is Aaron Ekblad and Mikhail Sergachev. It’s the uniting of the Florida Panthers, the Tampa Bay Lightning. Would make for quite the story.
But I don’t think, I don’t think that Bill Armstrong is completed. I feel that right away, perhaps more so than ever, he’s , , this murderer’s row within the central. And listen, Dallas goes to be wonderful. Everyone knows that about Dallas. Colorado continues to be going to be a juggernaut, and the Winnipeg Jets, ditto.
But I feel that , the Utah Mammoth and Bill Armstrong are the division right away and saying there’s probably Minnesota. They’ll’t play five-on-five. There’s possibly even larger problems with the St Louis Blues and people two goaltenders, and we saw against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Specifically, Joel Hofer, is de facto hard to hit.
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So in the event that they’re going to take themselves out of this, you ask, who’s going to fill that vacuum? And right away, the Utah mammoth are the team that’s saying, if you happen to’re going to go away all these points on the table, we’re going to gobble them up like Pac Man. You would like to hand over that spot, we’ll take that spot.
And I don’t think that Bill Armstrong goes to going to take a seat back and just say, ‘You already know what? It’s going to be one other development yr for (Logan) Cooley and, and (Dylan) Guenther and Jack McBain‘ and all these, I don’t think so. Dmitry Simashev, I don’t think he’s that and saying, ‘Yeah, we’re just gonna, we’re just gonna step back and see where the youngsters go.’
I feel that is going to be an aggressive general manager and a very aggressive Utah Mammoth team all season long. I don’t think they’re done, in no way. Do you?
Tyler Yaremchuk: “I don’t think they might be. Like once you take a look at all of the young pieces they’ve, not only of their lineup, but coming up. After which they’ve their first rounder. In some way, they’ve gathered three second round picks on this yr’s draft. And it’s like, up. They’re almost attending to the purpose, Jeff, where keeping all of those picks is pointless.
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Marek: “You’ll be able to’t.”
Yaremchuk: “You don’t need more young players coming up.
Marek: “No, you may’t. Last time I checked, it’s still 50 contracts. You already know, last time I checked, it’s one Stanley Cup given out. They play with one Puck, and also you only allowed 50 contracts. Like at a certain place, yeah, certain time, you could have to take the draft capital and say, we’re going to show this into, into players.”
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