{"id":71095,"date":"2025-08-15T07:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71095\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:44:12","slug":"mammoth-first-round-pick-caleb-desnoyers-to-miss-time-after-wrist-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71095\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth first-round pick Caleb Desnoyers to miss time after wrist surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"56bacaaf-0585-44e5-a489-9740461763f0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/caleb-desnoyers\/56bacaaf-0585-44e5-a489-9740461763f0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Caleb Desnoyers<\/a>, the fourth overall selection from the 2025 NHL Draft, is set to miss 12 weeks after undergoing wrist surgery, <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"utah-mammoth\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/utah-mammoth\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Utah Mammoth<\/a> general manager Bill Armstrong <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UtahMammoth_PR\/status\/1956040685510869315\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Desnoyers, 18, helped lead the Moncton Wildcats to a QMJHL championship last year, piling up 84 points (35 goals, 49 assists) in 56 games. He added nine goals and 21 assists during 19 post-season contests and won the Guy Lafleur Trophy for playoff MVP.<\/p>\n<p>Moncton went on to lose to the eventual champions, the London Knights, in the semifinals at the Memorial Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Desnoyers, of St-Hyacinthe, Que., did not make Canada\u2019s world junior team but starred for the country at the 2024 U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup with five points in five games.<\/p>\n<p>At six-foot-two and 182 pounds, Desnoyers was No. 2 on Sportsnet analyst Jason Bukala\u2019s prospect rankings earlier in June. Bukala projects him as a top-line forward who can play in all situations.<\/p>\n<p>Utah jumped 10 spots during the NHL&#8217;s Draft Lottery in order to select Desnoyers fourth overall, after finishing sixth in the Central Division at 38-31-13. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caleb Desnoyers, the fourth overall selection from the 2025 NHL Draft, is set to miss 12 weeks after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-71095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}