Utah Mammoth at Buffalo Sabres: game preview
UtahMammoth2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 15that
BuffaloSabres2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 50-23-9 · 109 pts · 4thSeventeen points apart last season
Utah finished last season 15th in the league on 92 points. Buffalo finished 4th on 109, and the 2025-26 season series went UTA 2-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 5
Across 4 completed games, Utah lead the head-to-head 4-0-0.
Last 4 meetings
See all: Last 4 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 4 Nov 2025, Utah were 5th in the league and Buffalo 22nd. By 12 Nov 2025 it was 10th and 30th.
Utah out-attempted Buffalo 275 to 202
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Utah Mammoth
Buffalo Sabres
Buffalo have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 4 games for Utah, 3 for Buffalo. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Utah, 10 for Buffalo.
2025-26: 82 games for Utah, 82 for Buffalo.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Utah
Small sampleBuffalo
Small sampleClayton Keller has 6 points in the last 4 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Clayton Keller vs Buffalo · game by game
See all: Clayton Keller vs Buffalo · game by game →Karel Vejmelka has started most of these meetings
Karel Vejmelka played 4 of the last 4 meetings with Buffalo, with a .921 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Karel Vejmelka
See all: Karel Vejmelka →UTA · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter not named
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Sebastian Cossa .947 (1 GP)
Full game logBuffalo crease
BUF · 2026-27 Starter not named
Three goalies used against Utah
Scoring rates point to about 6.4 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 4 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Utah4.252.003.272.93
Buffalo3.333.673.512.94Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
8 on the injury lists
Utah · injuries
Buffalo · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed LW Ben McCartney on waivers.
Assigned Fs Yegor Borikov, Caleb Desnoyers, Tij Iginla, Gabe Smith and G Michael Hrabal to Tucson (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Fs Brandon Tanev and Joshua Roy and D Zac Jones.
Signed D Max Psenicka to a three-year contract.
Loaned D Dennis Gilbert to Rochester (AHL).
Recalled D Dennis Gilbert from Rochester (AHL). Placed G Alex Lyon and D Olen Zellweger on injured reserve. Signed D Louis Crevier to a four-year contract. Transferred F Matthew Savoie to long-term injured reserve.
Signed C Noah Östlund to an eight-year contract.
Utah · 2026 draft
See all: Utah · 2026 draft →Buffalo · 2026 draft
See all: Buffalo · 2026 draft →Saturday 10 October · the full slate
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