Utah Mammoth Biggest Add, Loss, And Hole. Comment your picks below #nhl #utahmammoth
Let’s move on to the Utah Mammoth. Do we want to go back just rewind to the Buffalo Sabres section? Was that trade? Is that what you what you have? Yep. Perka Purka for the ad and Kessle Ring for the loss. That’s what I have. I actually have Don for the loss uh to Kessle Ring. Adding 23-year-old wingers that are on the cusp of 30 goals. Like their offense was good but kind of inconsistent, kind of hot and cold. They added a bonafide potential top six winger that can be just a pure goal scorer that can be on, you know, depending on what they want to do, first line or second line. There’s just a wealth now of great forwards on this team, right? Keller, Gunther, Peter, Logan, K, got Barrett Hayden. I want to see this team take a leap. I think that Utah’s defense can withstand the Kessle Ring loss. Yes. Pretty well. They had Marino and Derzy as well on that right side and they’re all kind of second pair right D guys, right? And then they brought in Nate Schmidt to kind of fill in that spawn to third line. So like I feel like they kind of have a natural replacement for Kessle Ring. I’m worried about Marino just because of just because of health, just because of consistency. My loss actually is Josh Don. He’s like primed to replace Keroot in the bottom six who expires after the season. They could have got him to a bridge deal and he would have probably cost about the same as Keroot, but instead of being 31, he’s 22 or three or whatever. And like they were both guys that they traded for Purka. So, you know, you could have gone either either side of that coin. The hole for you goalie actually. Yeah. I’m assuming you picked 1D. I put Sergeev’s partner whether Sergeev whether you could ring Colin. Couldn’t it have been Kessle Ring? I mean, probably. Or could it be Dery and then you put Kessle Ring on that? Yeah, I’m not sold on Derzy as as a first pair guy. I put goalie. I think Carol Vamela is not consistent enough to what you’d want to have behind like this kind of team. I think this team could succeed in its current state with a more solid goalie. This blue line, maybe they’re lacking the Sergeev partner. Maybe it’s not the best blue line that it could be, but you have Sergeev, you have Dery, they’re leading two like solid lines, right? Uh you have a decent you have a decent third pairing, right? You have great young talent at the top and you have good role players and and stuff like that in the bottom. You have like talent to surround with your young like this is just a good team, right? I don’t think Vamela is going to be the guy that could get them there. I think you’d way rather have a more consistent guy. This is a team that I think could be looking to upgrade goalie to like really take the next the next jump. They want to like get into the playoffs and have reasonable seating and then be able to go on a run. I think Vamela is not the guy for that. I just put Serge’s partner. I like John Marino and Shawn Dery. I don’t want to play out of those guys like 22 to 25 minutes a night. I feel like they need to have a partner for Sergeev. Whether he’s a headman that’s the 1D and better than Sergeev or if he’s on a good piece or, you know, maybe slightly worse. But yeah, that like first line quality
Colin and Jackson break down the biggest addition, loss, and hole on the Utah Mammoth going into the 2025-2026 NHL season. Comment who you think we picked correctly or who we should have picked.
