{"id":85454,"date":"2025-08-21T05:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85454\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T05:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:26:20","slug":"utahs-connor-ingram-enters-nhl-nhlpa-player-assistance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85454\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah&#8217;s Connor Ingram Enters NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 20th: Goaltender Connor Ingram has been cleared by the NHLPA to return to the NHL <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bellefraser1\/status\/1958288143448420828\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Belle Fraser of the Salt Lake Tribune<\/a>. He will return to the Utah roster looking to earn the advantage back from Karel Vejmelka, who posted a 9-6-3 record and .889 save percentage in 18 games after Ingram stepped away. Both goaltenders have years of NHL experience behind them, and strong cases for manning Utah\u2019s starting role next season.<\/p>\n<p>March 9th: Utah goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/i\/ingraco01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connor Ingram<\/a> entered the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program today and will be out indefinitely, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1898788797749526700\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Johnston of TSN and The Athletic<\/a> reports.\u00a0In a corresponding move, the club\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UtahHC_PR\/status\/1898783889591558360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">recalled<\/a>\u00a0netminder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/staubja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jaxson Stauber<\/a>\u00a0from AHL Tucson earlier Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram, now 27, missed most of the 2020-21 season after entering the program while a member of the Predators organization. He later told <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/connor-ingram-finds-footing-as-coyotes-goalie-after-confronting-mental-health-issues\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NHL.com\u2019s Amalie Benjamin<\/a> that he sought help after dealing with undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder throughout his career. After moving to the Coyotes in the 2022 offseason, he emerged as their starter for the 2023-24 campaign and won the Masterton Trophy for the \u201cplayer who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to\u00a0ice hockey\u201d after a 23-win, six-shutout campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Now the No. 2 option to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vejmeka01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Karel Vejmelka<\/a>\u00a0in Utah, Ingram missed over a month with the team initially termed an upper-body injury earlier in the season. Upon his return, he informed reporters his mother had passed away and, understandably, took extended time off (via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bellefraser1\/status\/1877787368306192851\" rel=\"nofollow\">Belle Fraser of the Salt Lake Tribune<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In 22 starts for the Club this season, Ingram has a 9-8-4 record, .882 SV%, and a 3.27 GAA. The 25-year-old Stauber has done quite well when called upon to elevate from his minor-league starting role, posting a .925 SV% and 2.23 GAA in four appearances earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>All of us at Pro Hockey Rumors wish Ingram the best as he takes time away from the lineup. He\u2019ll be eligible to return to play upon the determination of program administrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 20th: Goaltender Connor Ingram has been cleared by the NHLPA to return to the NHL per Belle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,50808,50809,4247,448,82,4584,765],"class_list":["post-85454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-connor-ingram","tag-jaxson-stauber","tag-newsstand","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-utah-mammoth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85454","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=85454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}