Utah Hockey Club is getting reinforcements on the blueline when it needs it most. Sean Durzi is back with 26 games left in the regular season. The defenseman played just four games before getting hurt on Oct.

Is there any time of the season that’s more bittersweet than the trade deadline? For some players, it’s a shot at a new beginning. They go to new teams, meet new friends and have experiences that they otherwise would never have gotten.

Defenseman Sean Durzi is expected to return Saturday in Los Angeles after missing most of the inaugural campaign. Durzi was part of Utah's top defensive pair to start the year before injuring his shoulder in the third game of the season.

Utah Hockey Club is one of the only teams in the National Hockey League that has all four Beanpot schools represented on its active roster. Kesselring, of course, was a Husky, Jack McBain played at Boston College and Clayton Keller at Boston University. Both Alex Kerfoot and John Marino went to Harvard.

The Utah Hockey Club has been without second-year forward Logan Cooley for just over two weeks. The team's stayed afloat, going 3-2-1 without their 20-year-old