In 2025-26, its second season in the NHL, Utah unveiled a new name and logo, opened a new practice facility, and made the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time.<\/p>\n
The Mammoth took a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference First Round before losing in six games to the Vegas Golden Knights, the eventual conference champions. The Golden Knights lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in six games in the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s a lot to look forward to, especially based off last year, how tight that series was with Vegas,\u201d Marino said. \u201cObviously, they made their Cup run. We saw how far they went. But we\u2019re obviously a young team and still have so much to look forward to. I think it kind of speaks for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
This offseason, the Mammoth have continued renovations of Delta Center, and they\u2019ve kept key players while adding others.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it shows in free agency,\u201d Armstrong said. \u201cI think guys have changed their trade language to add us in, a place that\u2019s desirable to play. (Owners Ryan and Ashley Smith) have done an incredible job with our building. Our fan base is crazy. It\u2019s loud. It\u2019s a great place to play. Our practice facility is one of the best. And we\u2019ve got a good team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marino echoed Armstrong, saying the Smiths have created a \u201cwinning environment\u201d and the support from the fans has \u201cexceeded expectations.\u201d He mentioned that the Mammoth have young players locked up. Forwards Dylan Guenther<\/a>, 23, and Logan Cooley<\/a> 22, each is signed through 2030-31. Captain Clayton Keller<\/a>, 27, is signed for two more seasons.<\/p>\n \u201cThe future\u2019s really exciting,\u201d Marino said. \u201cThose guys are only going to get better with age as well, so there\u2019s so much to look forward to. I keep saying it, but it\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025-26, its second season in the NHL, Utah unveiled a new name and logo, opened a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-817447","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\/817447","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=817447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}