The Arizona Coyotes spent years keeping the team mostly intact, hoping a big-splash addition via trade or free agency would be enough to push them deep into the playoffs.

Seeing that method wasn't working, general manager Bill Armstrong hit the reset button, unloading veteran players and their high-dollar contracts for a cache of draft picks that would set the foundation for the future.

The future appears to be here in the franchise's second season since moving to Utah, with the Mammoth matching the best start since the franchise moved from Winnipeg in 1996.

“I like the way we manage the momentum of the game, I like the maturity, the way we control our emotions,” Mammoth coach André Tourigny said. “I don't think we're at our full potential with any of our structure or any of our system

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