Utah Hockey Club91%
The NHL’s contract rules are changing. The Utah Mammoth just got ahead of them. 58%
By Caleb Turner81% Special to The Tribune81%
7/22/2026, 4:43:16 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Biased Writer Voice, and Hindsight Bias, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 38.8% saturation with 38 hits. Analysis detected 168 faulty-reasoning hits from 98 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 55.4% and a BS Rank of 58% (8,426 of 20,079 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 58.00% of the article peer group.
Bill Armstrong is feeling pretty good about his defense.
When Vincent Trocheck arrived in Salt Lake City, toured the Utah Mammoth facilities and pulled on the team’s black home jersey for the first time, he wasn’t merely an NHL player receiving an introduction to his new home.
For the ex-New York Rangers center, it represented the culmination of a half-year stretch that had included a retool declaration from his former team, a healthy scratch for roster management reasons, and a few months in limbo.
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
37.8%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
38.8%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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