Welcome back to another edition of Meet the Buyers, as trade talks around the league have picked up in a major way. After stopping in to showcase what the Minnesota Wild could be buying from the Maple Leafs, let’s shift gears and head down to check in on the Utah Mammoth.

It could finally be time for the Mammoth to make some noise as the team has overachieved this season. Both management and ownership want to be aggressive heading into the March 6 trade deadline. Utah has a boat load of cap space with $24 million to work with, and GM Bill Armstrong can get creative to add either short-term rentals, or players with a big ticket.

Digging into Maple Leafs’ trade candidates, the Mammoth are likely licking their chops with what Treliving has to offer. After two losses in a row out of the break, there’s going to be no shortage of discussions between these two teams, as Armstrong is going to be an aggressive shopper, and Treliving is in full sell mode.

Bobby McMann, Scott Laughton, Nicolas Roy, and Brandon Carlo are all likely on the Mammoth’s radar. First off, they need more secondary scoring and a stronger second power-play unit, so McMann fits the bill there, and can provide some speed and physicality on the wing, which Armstrong and company love. They prefer bigger players, with a heavy games, and McMann is among the top trade candidates, who can check off multiple boxes, while only making $1.3 million against the cap. Carlo is the type of defenceman Armstrong drools over, so don’t be surprised to see them make an offer for the towering righty.

Roy and Laughton are both long and short-term options for Armstrong to consider to shore up the team’s penalty kill, and provide some more depth to Utah’s bottom six. The Mammoth rank 20th in the league in penalty killing, and with a lack of Stanley Cup Playoff experience on their roster, and over $24 million in cap space, Roy should be what Treliving is selling here. The right-handed defensive center has a year left on his contract at $3 million, and if the Maple Leafs have interest bringing back Laughton, they need to move on from Roy. It’s shown this season the two can’t be leap frogging over each other for the same role.

The Mammoth are certainly going to have interest in what Treliving has to offer, but the question becomes – what exactly will the Maple Leafs’ GM be interested in out of Utah?

Don’t count out Treliving trying to stock as many first, or second-round draft picks for the 2026 draft, and not necessarily selecting players. More so, just holding onto the slots to eventually sell off the picks in a offseason/deadline deal, to then acquire NHL proven talent. Or, if he has time, flip them before the trade deadline in a creative way to re-tool. With limited prospects in the Leafs’ pool, it’s time for Treliving to cash in on his current assets, and if it means you take back as many high picks as you can get, to eventually flip them, you do it.

The Mammoth aren’t dealing Tij Iginla or Cole Beaudoin for anything the Maple Leafs are offering, so don’t get your hopes up there. Lawson Crouse doesn’t have trade protection, has scored 14 goals in 57 games this year, and has another year on his contract at $4 million AAV. He’s been linked to the Leafs for years, but if the Mammoth are going for it, they won’t be moving a top-six forward, who plays both sides of special teams.

Mammoth defensive prospect Maksymilian Szuber is an interesting trade candidate, as he’s a big body at 6-foot-3 and has shown he can be a two-way threat on the back end, he just hasn’t been given a shot to prove this at the NHL level. Szuber’s 23 years old and has only appeared in one game for Utah in the last two years, despite leading their AHL affiliate with 10 goals in 45 games this season. A project who could be worth auditioning for the last couple months of the season.

At the end of the day, these two teams make sense as trade partners, especially if Treliving is willing to sell of his assets to whoever is going to give him the most second-round picks. Utah has three 2026 second-round picks, Treliving would be wise to try and land as many of those as possible, and eventually package them up to re-tool in the summer.

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