Mammoth learning life lessons through playoff hockey
The series is now down to a best-of-three. Here’s where Utah is focusing now.
Utah Mammoth head coach André Tourigny speaks with media after Game 3 of a first-round NHL Stanley Cup playoff series between the Utah Mammoth and the Vegas Golden Knights at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, April 24, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News To Utah Mammoth head coach André Tourigny, hockey is a microcosm of life. Its lessons are applicable off the ice just as they are on it.
The lesson after his team’s loss to the Vegas Golden Knights Monday evening in Game 4 of the ongoing first-round playoff series was figuring out bouncing back. “In the playoffs, you have good games and bad games, individually and collectively,” Tourigny said Tuesday afternoon. “What’s important is being able to bounce back from it.
“That can happen to any player. It can happen in any circumstance. I always say, ‘In life, it’s not about if you will stumble.
It’s you will stumble, whatever you’re doing in life. ’ “It’s (about) how you react to it; how you bounce back to it; how you get better because of it. ” Tourigny recalled that early on in the career of Clayton Keller — now the team’s captain — he taught him that exact thing.