Utah Mammoth at Vegas Golden Knights: game preview
UtahMammoth2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 15that
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13thThree points apart last season
Utah finished last season 15th in the league on 92 points. Vegas finished 13th on 95.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 13
Across 12 completed games, Vegas lead the head-to-head 7-5-0.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 21 Apr 2026, Utah were 15th in the league and Vegas 13th. By 1 May 2026 it was 15th and 13th.
Vegas 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, 4 for Vegas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Utah, 10 for Vegas.
2025-26: 82 games for Utah, 87 for Vegas.
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.
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Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Utah crease
UTA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 30 Nov
No appearances against Vegas in the last meetings.
Vegas crease
VGK · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 30 Nov
No appearances against Utah in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.3 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 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Utah4.252.003.272.93
Vegas4.252.503.233.05Goals 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.
5 on the injury lists
Utah · injuries
Vegas · 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.
Signed C William Karlsson to a two-year contract.
Placed C Jakub Cormier, RW Matyas Hemmerling and C Jakub Uchacz on the injured non-roster list.
Placed D Jaycob Megna, D Adam Ginning, D Joe Fleming, C Jakub Demek and D Jeremy Davies on waivers.
Utah · 2026 draft
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