Back in 2004, before his 851-game NHL career and the tens of millions of dollars that came with it, Josh Gorges was a 19-year-old kid playing hockey for his hometown junior team, the Kelowna Rockets.
The Canadian Hockey League uses a draft system, so most guys never get the chance to play at home. It’s even less common that a player leads his childhood team to the Memorial Cup, an annual…
Mammoth fans, if you’re looking for meaningful, Utah-related hockey to watch this spring, look no further than the Memorial Cup.
Simply put, it’s the most important trophy in junior hockey. Think of it as an NCAA national championship, except teams can’t just grab a bunch of over-agers and dominate the way they do in college hockey.
In other words, the stars of these teams tend to become stars…
No living human has seen a herd of live mammoths, but those at the Delta Center last Friday night have a pretty good idea of what it would sound like.
That was the night the Utah Mammoth, the NHL’s newest hockey team, played their first home playoff game. As they’ve done for two seasons now, the fans showed up — so much, this time, that the players had a hard time hearing the coaches‘…
The Delta Center was so loud Friday evening that Utah Mammoth head coach André Tourigny had a tough time communicating the line rotations to his team.
“Seriously, we had some confusion on the bench,” he said. “Guys didn’t know who was up — and, for people who know me, I can be pretty loud."
Mammoth star forward Dylan Guenther said there was one point when he even hopped onto the ice when he…
The Utah Mammoth have officially clinched the highly coveted first wild card spot in the Western Conference. They’ll face the winner of the Pacific Division — either the Edmonton Oilers or the Vegas Golden Knights.
Utah had a number of potential clinching scenarios going into Tuesday. The one that actualized was the Mammoth beating the Winnipeg Jets and the Minnesota Wild topping the Anaheim…
On this date two years ago, the Arizona Coyotes found out they were moving to Utah.
After so many seasons suffering through a rebuild and some of the most extreme arena issues in the modern era of the NHL, it’s serendipitous that the players woke up precisely two years later with the comfort of a clinched playoff spot.
“We went through pretty deep water at some point,” head coach André Tourigny…
There’s hardly a vehicle under the sun that David “Heavy D” Sparks and David “Diesel Dave” Kiley haven’t driven.
Thanks in large part to their TV show and their significant social media presence, the “Diesel Brothers” been able to experiment with monster trucks, boats, helicopters, semi trucks, heavy machinery, hover crafts and everything in between.
But until recently, one particular vehicle…
Utah Mammoth head coach André Tourigny began his postgame press conference on Tuesday with one of the most famous movie quotes of all time.
“Are you not entertained?” he said with a smile.
The answer is yes, speaking for every person watching the game. Even if you cheer for the Edmonton Oilers, who lost the back-and-forth contest 6-5, you must have been on the edge of your seat all night…