{"id":129008,"date":"2025-09-09T01:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129008\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:09:06","slug":"afternoon-notes-trenton-bruins-senators-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129008\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon Notes: Trenton, Bruins, Senators, Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Utah Grizzlies will relocate to Trenton, New Jersey for the 2026-27 season, with an announcement set for tomorrow, per hockey insider Frank Seravalli<\/a>. If true, the Grizzlies will be set to move right after celebrating their 20th season in Utah. In doing so, they will bring ECHL hockey back to Trenton for the first time since 2013. The city previously hosted the Trenton Titans \u2013 briefly the Trenton Devils \u2013 for 24 years beginning in 1999. The club was red-hot at the turn of the century, reaching the Kelly Cup Finals in 2001 and taking the Cup home in 2005. They featured some incredible hockey names in their history. Stanley Cup winner and Vegas Golden Knights head coach Bruce Cassidy<\/a> presided over Trenton\u2019s inaugural season, and current Utah Mammoth general manager Bill Armstrong<\/a> coached the team from 2002 to 2004.<\/p>\n

The Utah Grizzlies are currently affiliated with the Colorado Avalanche and Colorado Eagles, the latter an ironic twist given the Eagles\u2019 rivalry with the Grizzlies when they were a part of the ECHL. This move would break that tension, and return pro hockey to an upgraded CURE Insurance Arena.<\/p>\n

Other notes from around the hockey world:<\/p>\n

Sticking in the ECHL, the Boston Bruins have announced<\/a> a three-year extension of their affiliation with the Maine Mariners. The affiliation began in 2021, and marked the first NHL partnership in Maine\u2019s brief history. It was a continuation of a long history of work between the two teams. The Mariners served as Boston\u2019s AHL affiliate from 1987 to 1992, before being relocated to form the Providence Bruins. The ECHL Mariners haven\u2019t found their stride under Boston just yet \u2013 losing in the first round of the postseason three times, then missing the postseason last year. They\u2019ll face a very interesting turnaround next season, after losing former player and head coach\/general manager Terrence Wallin this summer. Maine hired Rick Kowalsky \u2013 aptly, a member of the Kelly Cup-winning Trenton Devils in 2005 \u2013 to fill the vacancy. Kowalsky has previously spent four years an ECHL head coach, 10 years as an AHL head coach, and six years as an assistant coach with the New Jersey Devils.
\nShifting to looming NHL training camps \u2013 the Ottawa Senators are expected to bring multiple professional try-outs to the start of their camp, general manager Steve Staios<\/a> told Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun<\/a>. Ottawa could use a bit of padding to their depth at all three positions, setting them up nicely to bring in some of the top remaining free agents. The likeliest paths to the lineup will be on the fourth-line wing, where Michael Amadio<\/a> and Nick Cousins<\/a> currently reside on the depth chart. Some options for UFA candidates could include 36-year-old wing Max Pacioretty<\/a>, 30-year-old centerman Tyler Motte<\/a>, or 31-year-old defenseman Matt Grzelcyk<\/a>.
\nWhile Ottawa pursues the PTO market, the Calgary Flames are expected to stay away, per Ryan Pike of Flames Nation<\/a>. While the Senators will look to vindicate a push to the playoffs last season, Calgary is likely much more geared towards keeping spots open for their emerging youngsters. Players like Rory Kerins<\/a>, Dryden Hunt<\/a>, William Stromgren<\/a>, and Aydar Suniev<\/a> could all make valient pushes for bottom-six minutes next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Grizzlies will relocate to Trenton, New Jersey for the 2026-27 season, with an announcement set for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,5789,7525,7522,28896,575,6597,7820,85],"class_list":["post-129008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston-bruins","tag-calgary-flames","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-echl","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-players","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}