{"id":964071,"date":"2026-11-14T10:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/964071\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:28:09","slug":"central-notes-cooley-anderson-salomonsson-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/964071\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Notes: Cooley, Anderson, Salomonsson \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/author\/brianlarose\" title=\"Posts by Brian La Rose\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian La Rose<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at November 13, 2026 10:00 pm  <\/p>\n<p>It will be at least a little while longer before Utah\u2019s leading goal-getter is back in the lineup.\u00a0 KSL Sports\u2019 Ben Anderson relays (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BensHoops\/status\/2121381406484148368\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/coolelo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-11-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Logan Cooley<\/a> won\u2019t play on Saturday.\u00a0 In addition, head coach Andre Tourigny indicated that he doesn\u2019t expect to have Cooley back this coming week.\u00a0 At this point, the Mammoth are waiting for some test results before determining next steps for the 22-year-old.\u00a0 Cooley is off to a great start to his season with 11 goals and 10 assists in 18 games, putting him second on the team in scoring.\u00a0 Now, it appears he\u2019ll be out for a few more games at a minimum, with the team undoubtedly hoping that the test results don\u2019t reveal a longer-term issue.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the Central:<\/p>\n<p>Veteran winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/anderjo08.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-11-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joey Anderson<\/a> is on the move again. After starting out the season on a tryout deal with AHL Hershey, he has found a full-season home as Iowa (affiliate of the Wild) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/news\/detail\/iowa-wild-signs-forward-joey-anderson?utm_source=x&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=ap_tcq7mozqmc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> they\u2019ve signed him to a one-year deal.\u00a0 A veteran of 169 career NHL appearances, Anderson has 19 goals and 21 assists under his belt.\u00a0 He was off to a good start with the Bears this season, with six points in as many games and now he\u2019ll have a better foundation to push for a conversion to an NHL deal.<br \/>\nJets defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/salomel01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-11-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elias Salomonsson<\/a> has returned to the team after taking a personal leave, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/sports\/2026\/11\/13\/firing-up-the-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">notes Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Free Press<\/a>. Having missed four (soon to be five) games, he won\u2019t jump back in the lineup right away, with head coach Scott Arniel noting that he hopes to reintegrate the youngster into the group early next week.\u00a0 Salomonsson has only played in six games this season after starting the year on injured reserve and is still looking for his first point while logging over 18 minutes a night of ice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brian La Rose | at November 13, 2026 10:00 pm It will be at least a little&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":964072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[3063,64,63,465268,136436,134886,7524,575,85,7528,6000],"class_list":["post-964071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-elias-salomonsson","tag-joey-anderson","tag-logan-cooley","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-utah-mammoth","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964071","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=964071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}