The Mammoth Adds Foote as Assistant Coach

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The Utah Mammoth have hired two-time Stanley Cup champion Adam Foote as an assistant coach.

The team also announced that head coach André Tourigny has signed a multi-year contract extension. Assistant coach Blaine Forsythe signed a multi-year extension as well.

Mario Duhamel, who has spent five years as an assistant coach with both the Mammoth and the Arizona Coyotes, remains under contract with the organization. However, he will not be behind the bench next season. He and the organization are working to determine what his next role will be.

Mammoth Add Foote

The 54-year-old Foote spent the 2025-26 season as the head coach of the last-place Vancouver Canucks. He served as an assistant coach with the Canucks the previous two and a half seasons. Back in 2024, they fell a goal shy of a Western Conference Final appearance.

Foote has 19 seasons’ worth of playing experience, during which he was one of the league’s premier shutdown defensemen. He played major roles in the Colorado Avalanche’s Stanley Cup wins in 1996 and 2001, as well as Team Canada’s gold medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

He worked alongside Tourigny and Duhamel with the Colorado Avalanche from 2013-15. Foote was a development consultant, while Tourigny was an assistant coach and Duhamel was a video coach.

As an assistant in Vancouver, Foote’s primary responsibility was to work with the defensemen. He will take on the same role in Utah.

It was under his watch that Quinn Hughes blossomed into an all-out superstar, rather than just a good defenseman. With the Mammoth, there’s potential for Foote to elevate Mikhail Sergachev similarly. Perhaps he’s not a 90-point guy, but he probably has the potential to jump into the league’s upper echelon of defensemen.

GM Bill Armstrong said in a press release that Foote will “bring a fresh perspective to our room backed by years of experience as both a player and coach.”

The Mammoth finished 19th on the penalty kill last season, so there’s plenty of room for improvement with Foote running the PK.