Two-time Stanley Cup champion Trevor Lewis, the most-capped Utah-born player in NHL history, has joined the Utah Mammoth as a youth and amateur hockey ambassador and video scout.

The Mammoth announced the hire Tuesday, Sept. 15. Lewis played 1,034 NHL games across 17 seasons with the Los Angeles Kings, Calgary Flames and Winnipeg Jets. He won the Cup with the Kings in 2012 and 2014, bringing the trophy back to Utah both times.

The hire carries weight for Millcreek-area families. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Sept. 8 that a catastrophic equipment failure at one of Salt Lake County's ice rinks and a new policy were worsening a capacity crisis for skaters on the Wasatch Front. Utah is set to host the 2034 Winter Olympics, adding urgency to developing young winter-sport athletes in the region.

Lewis grew up in Salt Lake City and learned to skate at the Cottonwood Heights Recreation Center, directly across the street from his childhood home. His father took him to the rink every day after work, starting when Lewis was two years old. By five, he was playing hockey.

"When I was growing up, there weren't many rinks," Lewis said in the Mammoth's feature announcing the hire. "Luckily my parents bought a house right across the street from Cottonwood Ice Rink."

Back then, Lewis sometimes played on a youth team with only 12 players. He left Utah for Colorado to play 18U AAA hockey. He then moved through the USHL and OHL before the Kings drafted him 17th overall in 2006. He made his NHL debut on Dec. 19, 2008, becoming one of the first Utah-born players to reach the league.

The landscape has changed.

Lewis noted the difference in an April 2025 pregame interview before the lone regular-season NHL game he played in Utah, the sixth-to-last game of his career: "Now when you come back, it's hard to find ice time even for me. There's a lot of kids coming up, getting scholarships and stuff like that."

That growth is exactly what the Mammoth want Lewis to accelerate. The organization is prioritizing efforts to get as many kids as possible playing hockey, rather than investing solely in the high-level scene, according to the Deseret News. Lewis has already been doing that work on his own. During a year off from hockey, he ran a learn-to-play program and went into his son's school to play street hockey at recess with the kids.

Chris Armstrong, the Mammoth's president of hockey operations, said in a statement that Lewis's championship experience and personal connection to Utah's hockey growth made the hire a natural fit.