The Utah Hockey Club has acquired a Stanley Cup champion defenseman from the Detroit Red Wings to help fill holes on defense.
It’s early in the Utah Hockey Club’s first inaugural season in the NHL, but they are in need of some help on defense after a couple of big-time injuries. To helpUtah acquired Maatta from the Red Wings in exchange for a 2025 third-round draft pick. The pick initially belonged to the New York Rangers.We’ve acquired defenseman Olli Määttä from the Detroit Red Wings in exchange for a third-round draft choice via the New York Rangers.
Before making his way to Detroit, Maatta spent a couple of seasons with the Los Angeles Kings and one year with the Chicago Blackhawks. Maatta spent the first six years of his NHL career with the Pittsburgh Penguins after they selected him 22nd overall in the 2012 draft. He played 362 games with the Penguins and picked up 107 points .
More notably, Maatta was a fixture on the Penguins blue line for their back-to-back Stanley Cup runs in 2016 and 2017. He appeared in 69 playoff games with the Penguins posting 21 total points . Utah became well in need of defensive help when they announced that John Marino and Sean Durzi would both be out of the lineup for multiple monthsThe Coyotes nabbed the third-round pick as the third team involved in the move that sent Patrick Kane from theAs a left shot defenseman, Maatta will slot right into the Utah lineup and likely play on the second pairing. Before the trade, he was averaging just under 16 minutes of ice time in seven games with the Red Wings.
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