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The Utah Mammoth have kicked it up a gear.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the 2025 free agency period, GM Bill Armstrong made it clear that he wasn\u2019t interested in signing older players to long-term deals that would hurt the team in the future \u2014 and you certainly don\u2019t want to give up young players.<\/p>\n

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Those are deals that you make when you\u2019re a contender, not when you\u2019re first pushing to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

The Mammoth\u2019s 2026 playoff run elevated them past that stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went into that series against Vegas and you look at it, they had an older, experienced club,\u201d Armstrong explained in a press conference Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s a little combination of youth where you\u2019re going to have the Simashevs and Buts and Iginlas and Desnoyers push to make the club and they can get in there. But at the same time, you still need people that have done it at a high level for a long time in the National Hockey League to kind of lead the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

NHL free agency opened on Wednesday, presenting two opportunities for the Mammoth to add skilled, veteran players: 32-year-old Vincent Trocheck and almost-36-year-old Anders Lee.<\/p>\n

They come in addition to 32-year-old MacKenzie Weegar, whom Utah acquired at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Trocheck came via trade, with the Mammoth sending Cole Beaudoin and Sean Durzi, along with a 2027 third-round draft pick, to the New York Rangers. Lee signed as a free agent.<\/p>\n

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Both players have three years on their respective contracts.<\/p>\n

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Per Utah\u2019s management, Vincent Trocheck had Utah on his no-trade list last year, but it wasn\u2019t on his list this year.#TusksUp<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have guys that are leaving, the (Alexander) Kerfoots of the world and the Ian Coles of the world, and now you have other guys coming in to lead. So, I don\u2019t think our age changes a lot. I think it\u2019s just different players that are coming in that are more suited to the roles we needed to take the next step,\u201d Armstrong said.<\/p>\n

The Mammoth have more internal competition this year than ever before \u2014 especially up front.<\/p>\n

They have 16 forwards who played NHL games last year, plus young players like Tij Iginla, Caleb Desnoyers and Gabe Smith who could push for roster spots out of camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou feel that excitement when your team gets better and better each year as guys start looking around, going, \u2018Wow, there\u2019s some talented guys on the ice. I like my role, I like my spot, I\u2019m going to come in better shape and I\u2019m going to push the envelope for our club to be better,\u2019\u201d Armstrong said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it\u2019s a healthy nervousness of competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The defensive group is not quite as deep at this point.<\/p>\n

Utah added former Rangers defenseman Zac Jones on a two-way deal late in the day, but unless they plan on Dmitri Simashev and Maveric Lamoureux both being permanent NHLers next season, there\u2019s probably still a spot to fill on the back end.<\/p>\n

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