Utah Mammoth at Chicago Blackhawks: game preview
UtahMammoth2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 15that
ChicagoBlackhawks2026-27: 1-3-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 29-39-14 · 72 pts · 31stTwenty points apart last season
Utah finished last season 15th in the league on 92 points. Chicago finished 31st on 72, and the 2025-26 season series went CHI 4-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 10
Across 9 completed games, Chicago lead the head-to-head 5-3-0.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 13 Oct 2025, Utah were 29th in the league and Chicago 20th. By 1 Oct it was 4th and 32nd.
Utah out-attempted Chicago 303 to 216
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Utah Mammoth
Chicago Blackhawks
Utah 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 Chicago. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Utah, 10 for Chicago.
2025-26: 82 games for Utah, 82 for Chicago.
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 sampleChicago
Small sampleDylan Guenther has 5 points in the last 5 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.
Dylan Guenther vs Chicago · game by game
See all: Dylan Guenther vs Chicago · game by game →Karel Vejmelka has started most of these meetings
Karel Vejmelka played 3 of the last 5 meetings with Chicago, with a .894 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Karel Vejmelka
See all: Karel Vejmelka →UTA · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 9 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Sebastian Cossa .947 (1 GP)
Full game logChicago crease
CHI · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 9 Jan
Two goalies used against Utah
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
Chicago2.254.252.603.35Goals 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
Chicago · 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.
Assigned D Charles Alexis Legault to Chicago (AHL).
Agreed to terms with F Oliver Moore on a five-year contract extension. Loaned Fs Jiri felcman, Martin Misiak and Marek Vanacker and D Dylan Anhorn to Rockford (AHL). Assigned F Brett Seney to Rockford.
Placed D Derrick Pouliot on waivers.
Utah · 2026 draft
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