{"id":98064,"date":"2025-08-21T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98064\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:32:08","slug":"utah-mammoth-goalie-connor-ingram-now-out-of-nhl-assistance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98064\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Mammoth goalie Connor Ingram now out of NHL assistance program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ingram entered the NHL\u2019s player assistance program on March 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-credit\">(Trent Nelson  |  The Salt Lake Tribune) &#13;Utah Hockey Club goaltender Connor Ingram (39) as Utah Hockey Club hosts the Los Angeles Kings, NHL pre-season hockey in Salt Lake City on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">Connor Ingram is rejoining the Utah Mammoth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">The National Hockey League and National Hockey League Players\u2019 Association announced Wednesday that Ingram has been cleared by the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program to return to the NHL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">The goaltender has been away from the team for the past five months after entering the NHL\u2019s player assistance program on March 9. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">Ingram took the time to focus on his mental health, he said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBIngram1\/status\/1898796482058506483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBIngram1\/status\/1898796482058506483\">in a message on X<\/a>, after his mother died of breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">Ingram played 22 games for Utah and posted a 3.27 goals against average and .882 save percentage last season. The 28-year-old last started on Feb. 22 against the Los Angeles Kings. Ingram\u2019s eventual absence led to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sports\/utah-hockey-club\/2025\/04\/06\/karel-vejmelka-plays-20th\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Karel Vejmelka<\/a> taking over as the No. 1 starter for the Mammoth the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-credit\">(Francisco Kjolseth  | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Hockey Club goaltender Connor Ingram (39) during an NHL hockey game at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">Due to the previous uncertainty around Ingram, the Mammoth signed V\u00edtek Van\u011b\u010dek to a one-year, $1.5 million contract in July for some insurance in net. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">Van\u011b\u010dek was a depth option for the Florida Panthers last season and had a 3.62 goals against average and .884 save percentage in 25 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">All three goaltenders \u2014 Ingram, Van\u011b\u010dek and Vejmelka \u2014 will battle in training camp to determine the slotting. As of now, Vejmelka is the presumptive starter, especially considering his five-year, $23.75 million contract extension in March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">The Mammoth are no doubt excited to have Ingram back and feeling good. His role and game-readiness, though, will be determined in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ingram entered the NHL\u2019s player assistance program on March 9. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) &#13;Utah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1466,65992,6755,393,385,45570,65993,99,24,3324,65994],"class_list":["post-98064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-1466","tag-delta-center","tag-hockey","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-nhl","tag-salt-lake-city","tag-slt","tag-sports","tag-usa","tag-utah","tag-utah-hockey-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}