Bill Armstrong

There's a difference between – wanting to do it and actually doing it.

So that's where then I look to the off-season acquisitions that General Manager Bill Armstrong and President of Hockey Operations Chris Armstrong and their staff made.

You go out and you get Vinny Trocek, not the biggest guy in the world, but plays a lot bigger than his size.

more than willing to go and grind it out, play the 200-foot game.

That's a high level of professional hockey.

However, getting used to a different team, a different system, a different style of play in North America, it's just a little different.

So he comes into camp this year stronger, more determined, a little bit higher of a skill set as the coaches, general manager Bill Armstrong, everyone has said.

He has started the season.

That's how Cooley learned to skate.

Eventually made his way up through the University of Minnesota, was third overall draft pick by Bill Armstrong back in 2022, and now he's one of the stars of the Mammoth.

Anders Lee in front of the penalty boxes, could not control it.

It's gathered in by Koivet, and he almost turned it over.

He frees it up for Dimitri Simishev and it's moved out to center.

You'll hear a lot of that with Artem Duda on the ice, a simple defenseman.

adept at moving the puck quickly making responsible decisions former second round pick of bill armstrong back in the 2022 draft that's the same draft where utah took maverick lamoureux they took logan cooley this is dumped in by pittsburgh mckenzie weaker behind his own net ceiling off coivident lapierre low to high carlisle a slap shot never made it through that was yamamoto with the shot block Turned over by Pittsburgh here comes Anders Lee carving in a backhand or kick St. Shelavs and Barrett Hayden could get to the rebound in time.

Hayden on the near side working in tandem with Yamamoto who pulls it off the wall and Koivunen got a stick in there to yank it free.

They have one of the NHL's best farm systems, and Bleacher Report points to Clayton Keller, Logan Cooley, and Dylan Gunther already on the roster.

Their GM, Bill Armstrong, has made a big move in each of his last three seasons, and Utah has more cap flexibility than most teams on the list.

The way it could work is Utah has a young core piece in Keller, Cooley, and Gunther, and defensemen Mikhail Sergachev and Mackenzie Wieger.

Add prospects like Dmitry Simishev and Caleb Desnoyers, and they can give Detroit both players and the future.

you put out a ridiculous request to see if they even think about saying yes.

Obviously, Bill Armstrong's going to say no because he has a brain and he does not run the Detroit Red Wings.

And so, we're looking at this and the price was too high and that's on purpose by Winnipeg.

Obviously, it's on purpose.

And what's likely to come for them as we get towards U.S. Thanksgiving in a month's time or just under a month's time from now?

Yeah, well, my conversations with Bill Armstrong, also on Archie.org, sorry for the promotion, but he said they want to take home run swings.

This is a team that hasn't shied away from it.

Sergeyev, JJ Paterka didn't work out.

This is a team, it's not by chance that they're shut out of the gate, right? And that they're one of the top teams in the Central as we speak.

I mean, basically it's them and Minnesota going hot potato with each other in terms of who's leading the Central.

And Bill Armstrong has tons of assets that he could still move.

And that doesn't even have to include TJ Ginla and Caleb Dinoye.

Yeah, it's almost like those Arizona picks are finally paying off.

Bill Armstrong had to go over there and start making some big-time picks, and now they have all the capital to get whatever they want.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, Ryan Smith

No, I just assumed since he owned everything else, he owned KSL.

So what I was thinking is I was thinking that this might be GM Bill Armstrong's psyops at work, right? So I was thinking, okay, every time we've talked about this a lot, every time there's an available player on the market, the rumors are that Utah's involved, right? And I have to believe there is some truth to that, that these guys who are relatively well-connected, they do have sources, right, that do hear, yeah, Utah's trying to make a move.

But I was thinking, well, how much of that is GM Bill Armstrong just putting stuff out there, right? Like red herring here, red herring there, red herring here.

Which a lot of

sports teams and front offices do.

It's like a bidding war, right? At an auction where you don't intend to buy the product.

You just want to push up that price to make your competitor pay a little more.

But what if, what if GM Bill Armstrong sees the reaction of the fan base and it's like, okay, like, you know, maybe they've got, they're onto something and maybe Hellebuck really would have been great.

So I think that players are excited to join Utah.

And I think that says a lot more about what Bill Armstrong and Ryan Smith and Chris Armstrong, and even Andre journey have done with this team.

Uh, so, uh, take all these rumors worth a grain of salt because that's really all they are at this point.

Utah hasn't confirmed anything.