Barrett Hayton, the Offer Sheet, and Utah’s Old Recliner Decision
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The Utah Mammoth have a decision to make on Barrett Hayton, and somehow it all comes back to an old recliner.
New Jersey signed Hayton to a one-year offer sheet, putting Utah in a tough but fascinating spot: match the deal, keep him at nearly $4.8 million, and lose trade flexibility for a year — or let him go and take the 2027 second-round pick as compensation.
On this episode of SLC Puck, we talk through why the Mammoth may be ready to move on, how Vincent Trocheck, Anders Lee, Kevin Stenlund, Logan Cooley…
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