Utah Mammoth at Los Angeles Kings: game preview
UtahMammoth2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 15that
Los AngelesKings2026-27: 0-2-1 · 1 pts · 2025-26: 35-27-20 · 90 pts · 20thTwo points apart last season
Utah finished last season 15th in the league on 92 points. Los Angeles finished 20th on 90.
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Meeting number 7
Across 6 completed games, Los Angeles lead the head-to-head 4-1-1.
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 8 Dec 2025, Utah were 22nd in the league and Los Angeles 8th. By 28 Mar 2026 it was 18th and 22nd.
Los Angeles out-attempted Utah 198 to 179
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Utah Mammoth
Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Utah, 10 for Los Angeles.
2025-26: 82 games for Utah, 82 for Los Angeles.
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
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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.
Expected starter after their game on 21 Dec: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 22 Dec: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Utah crease
UTA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 23 Dec
No appearances against Los Angeles in the last meetings.
Los Angeles crease
LAK · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 23 Dec
No appearances against Utah in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.1 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
Los Angeles3.005.002.743.01Goals 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
Los Angeles · 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.
Placed D Otto Salin on the injured non-roster list. Loaned G Erik Portillo to Ontario (AHL).
Waived for the purpose of assignment to Abbotsford (AHL) Fs Martin Chromia, Cole Guttman, Lane Pederson and Francesco Pinelli and D Joe Hicketts. Loaned Fs Aatu Jamsen and Koehn Ziemmer, Ds Angus Booth, Kirill Kirsanov and Jared Woolley to Ontario. Placed F Jan Jenik and D Jakub Dvorak on injured reserve.
Signed F Elton Hermansson to a three-year, entry-level contract.
Utah · 2026 draft
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