Although the Mammoth were looking to add, Armstrong and the organization were focused on adding without sacrificing the future. The Mammoth listened to multiple offers but didn\u2019t make a trade that wouldn\u2019t serve both their short-term and long-term goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to look at everything while you\u2019re out there,\u201d Armstrong said. \u201cThere were some high names being put out there and into the deadline this year. We wanted to explore them. We wanted to make sure that we were in on them. At the same time, there\u2019s a little bit of patience with this and there\u2019s a little bit of discipline as you go down the stretch, no different than free agency. We\u2019ve always tried to do smart things with the club and make sure that it all lines up together, and that\u2019s not always easy.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the same time, Utah was careful to keep the majority of its main roster intact to avoid disrupting the team\u2019s success. The current roster is a tight knit group with a strong brotherhood. Every game, the team is fighting for a common goal. With 20 games left in the regular season it would be hard to insert multiple players and achieve the same success.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard with 20 games left to put elite players into your team and say \u2018ok, well here you go, perfect our team,\u2019\u201d Armstrong shared. \u201cThere\u2019s 20 games left, so you have to be really smart about who you put in and how you put into your team. Every time I\u2019ve watched (someone\u2019s) put this all-star team together right at the deadline, there\u2019s not enough games to bond (with) each other to be able to get that synergy to actually win against the team that\u2019s been bonded the whole year, or maybe for three, four years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the difficulty of these tasks, the Mammoth were able to keep the future stars of the organization and not disrupt the main roster. The organization has been clear about their intentions to not only make the playoffs, but to one day win the Stanley Cup. If the Mammoth had made the wrong move or overpaid, they would have lost the players that are contributing to the team\u2019s success now or the future stars that will wear the Mammoth sweater one day. As the deadline has come and gone, Utah is happy with the moves they made, and didn\u2019t make, this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always say our best team is not here yet,\u201d Armstrong explained. \u201cWe had to make sure at the same time that we didn\u2019t give away the future with some of our elite prospects that we\u2019ve drafted over the years, along with some high-end picks that we still have as an organization. So, I think we tried to accomplish two things and protect the future, and at the same time, get better as a team, as an organization, I think we accomplished that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the Mammoth were looking to add, Armstrong and the organization were focused on adding without sacrificing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5,4,51,5290,232,5291,5289],"class_list":{"0":"post-490087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-hockey-club","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-utah","11":"tag-utah-hc","12":"tag-utah-hockey-club","13":"tag-utahhc","14":"tag-utahhockeyclub"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116185002521511304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}