The Utah Mammoth added another piece to the pipeline today, signing forward Vadim Moroz to a two-year, entry-level contract.
Moroz, 22, arrives with a résumé built in the KHL, where he just turned in a productive 2025-26 season for Dinamo Minsk. In 54 regular-season games, he posted 14 goals, 15 assists and 29 points, along with 31 penalty minutes, and that performance earned him a spot in the 2026 KHL All-Star Game. He then chipped in 1-1-2 over eight Gagarin Cup Playoff appearances.
The 6-foot-2, 185-pound forward’s best KHL season came in 2024-25, when he set personal highs across the board with 26 goals, 18 assists, 44 points and a plus-18 rating. He led all Dinamo skaters in goals, finished second in game-winning goals with five, and tied for fourth on the team with 64 hits.
Moroz also had a stretch that put him on the map in a bigger way. On Sept. 13, 2024, he scored his first career KHL hat trick at Barys as a 20-year-old, becoming the youngest-ever Belarusian player to score a KHL hat trick and the first Belarusian player to score three even-strength goals in a single KHL game since 2010. Later that season, he was named KHL Forward of the Week on March 10, 2025, during a five-game goal streak from March 3-13 in which he piled up five goals and seven points.
Over four seasons with Dinamo Minsk, Moroz played 222 career KHL games and produced 56 goals, 53 assists and 109 points, plus 86 penalty minutes. He was one of only two Dinamo skaters to score double-digit goals in each of the past three campaigns from 2023-26.
Moroz has also spent time alongside fellow Mammoth prospect Yegor Borikov in Minsk’s system since 2022-23. Before his KHL run, he recorded 3-8-11 and 12 penalty minutes in 14 junior league games with Dinamo-Shinnik Bobruysk of the MHL, and he added 3-3-6 in 13 postseason games for Metallurg Zhlobin in 2023, helping that club win the Belarusian Extraleague championship.
The Arizona Coyotes picked Moroz in the third round, 88th overall, of the 2023 NHL Draft.
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