A lot of people look up to Utah Mammoth general manager Bill Armstrong — in the metaphorical sense because he’s a prominent figure, and in the physical sense because his last pro hockey weigh-in clocked him at 6-foot-5, 220 pounds.
But 18-year-old Ethan Belchetz, whom the Mammoth selected in the first round of the NHL draft on Friday, can look Armstrong in the eye.
“I just wanted to get a player that was kind of my size, so when we did the interview process, I looked thin and skinnier,” Armstrong said with a laugh in a press conference at the Mammoth Ice Center Sunday morning at the beginning of Mammoth development camp.
Belchetz matches Armstrong in height — 6-foot-5 — and his Draft Combine weight came in at 230 pounds. Neither guy would say, though, who would win in an arm wrestle between them.
“Someone would be leaving that getting injured,” Armstrong joked.
But 18-year-old Ethan Belchetz, whom the Mammoth selected in the first round of the NHL draft on Friday, can look Armstrong in the eye.
“I just wanted to get a player that was kind of my size, so when we did the interview process, I looked thin and skinnier,” Armstrong said with a laugh in a press conference at the Mammoth Ice Center Sunday morning at the beginning of Mammoth development camp.
Belchetz matches Armstrong in height — 6-foot-5 — and his Draft Combine weight came in at 230 pounds. Neither guy would say, though, who would win in an arm wrestle between them.
“Someone would be leaving that getting injured,” Armstrong joked.
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