Utah mammothAmerican Professional ice hockey team based in Salt Lake CityUtah, which participates in the western conference of the In the NHL. The team started playing in an expansion team during the 2024-2025 season.
Businessman of billionaire and resident technology of UTAH Ryan Smith began to investigate him a NHL expansion team in the state in 2020. An opportunity to do so in 2023 when Alex Meruelo, the owner of the Arizona Coyotescould not find a arena of permanent origin in the Phoenix team area. At the beginning of 2024, the NHL ease An agreement in which Smith and his wife, Ashley Smith, bought the “hockey assets” of the coyotes – namely the contracts of his players, coaches and other staff – and Meruelo have retained the right to the name and history of the coyotes, allowing the coyotes to relive in the future. (The agreement was roughly similar to the formation of Nfl‘s Baltimore Ravens out Cleveland Browns In 1996, in which the newly formed Ravens were essentially a shift team, but Cleveland kept the name, the story and the colors of the Browns for a future replacement team.)
The Nhl’s Board of Governors Approved the Sale of the Coyotes and the Creation of the Utah Hockey Club on April 18, Leaving Less Than Six Months to Get the Team Up and Running Before the Regular-Season Opener On Octuber 8. The Delta Center Arena, Home of the Nba‘s Utah jazzalso owned by the Smiths, was announced as the original arena of the team, and the renovations began to accommodate Ice hockey competition. In June, it was revealed that the temporary name of the team would be the “Utah Hockey Club” for the 2024-20125 season.
Alignment and coaches of the new team are largely unchanged from that of the Coyotes 2023-2024 team. The head coach is André Tourgny, and the team captain is forward Clayton Keller. He had a file of 38 to 31 in his inaugural season. The organization of UTAH carried out several public surveys to determine the permanent name of the team and, in May 2025, he announced that the franchise will be called the Mammoth of UTAH, after the Extinct elephant species.
