{"id":479682,"date":"2025-12-08T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=479682"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:29:54","slug":"utah-mammoth-young-centre-out-indefinitely-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/12\/08\/utah-mammoth-young-centre-out-indefinitely-due-to-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Mammoth Top Centre Out Indefinitely Due to Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/12\/03\/utah-mammoth-need-more-consistency-from-their-goaltenders\/\" target=\"_self\">Utah Mammoth<\/a> announced Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/coolelo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Logan Cooley<\/a> will be out indefinitely due to a lower-body injury. As of print, this means there&#8217;s currently no timetable for the 21-year-old to return to action. This is a big blow for the Mammoth, who&#8217;ll now be without their star centre for perhaps the rest of December, or maybe longer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">INJURY UPDATE<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/utahmammoth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@utahmammoth<\/a> forward Logan Cooley will be out indefinitely (lower-body)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Utah Mammoth PR (@UtahMammoth_PR) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UtahMammoth_PR\/status\/1998082605280030998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Utah Mammoth Lose Logan Cooley For Extended Period of Time<\/h2>\n<p>The injury was likely sustained against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canucks\/\" target=\"_self\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>, where Cooley fell after driving to the net. As a result, his left leg got caught on the right post next to goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lankike01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Lankinen<\/a>. He stayed in the game, but it certainly didn&#8217;t look good. Afterwards, Cooley was a late scratch for the game on Saturday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flames\/\" target=\"_self\">Calgary Flames<\/a>. The best case for the Mammoth is that Cooley just pulled something, but a tear of any kind would be devastating to Utah&#8217;s season. As of now, the extent of his injury is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Cooley is an important part of Utah&#8217;s core, especially on offence. He has 14 goals and 23 points in 29 games this season, while averaging 17:49 per game. Cooley also <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/10\/29\/utah-mammoth-extend-young-star\/\" target=\"_self\">signed an eight-year, $80 million contract in October.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mammoth announce Logan Cooley will be out indefinitely due to a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Cooley crashed into the net against Vancouver on Friday and hit his leg on the post <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sdPgQDnO8F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/sdPgQDnO8F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BR_OpenIce\/status\/1998090207699378684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>How Does this Change Utah&#8217;s Lineup<\/h2>\n<p>With the news of Cooley&#8217;s absence, this will certainly force Mammoth head coach Andre Tourigny to make an adjustment to his lineup. Centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/haytoba01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barrett Hayton<\/a>, who was recently scratched two games due to his offensive struggles, will remain in a top-six role. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/schmani01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Schmaltz<\/a> is centring the top line, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kellecl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clayton Keller<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/peterjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JJ Peterka<\/a> on his wings. Schmaltz and Hayton will both need to step up in a big way to fill the void left by Cooley.<\/p>\n<p>In other injury news, Utah defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/maattol01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olli Maatta<\/a> skated in a full-contact sweater, so he&#8217;s nearing a return. The Mammoth are home tonight to face the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/12\/08\/nhl-predictions-los-angeles-kings-vs-utah-mammoth\/\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> and begin a three-game home stand. Utah is currently fourth in the Central Division.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: Jerome Miron- Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Utah Mammoth announced Monday that Logan Cooley will be out indefinitely due to a lower-body injury. As of print, this means there&#8217;s currently no timetable for the 21-year-old to return to action. This is a big blow for the Mammoth, who&#8217;ll now be without their star centre for perhaps the rest of December, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5373,"featured_media":473116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[6926],"class_list":["post-479682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mammoth","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-logan-cooley"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479682"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479711,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479682\/revisions\/479711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}