Boston Bruins at Utah Mammoth: game preview
BostonBruins2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 45-27-10 · 100 pts · 8that
UtahMammoth2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 15thEight points apart last season
Boston finished last season 8th in the league on 100 points. Utah finished 15th on 92, and the 2025-26 season series went BOS 1-1-0.
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, Boston lead the head-to-head 2-1-1.
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 19 Oct 2025, Boston were 20th in the league and Utah 10th. By 16 Dec 2025 it was 11th and 22nd.
Utah out-attempted Boston 248 to 209
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Boston Bruins
Utah Mammoth
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 Boston, 4 for Utah. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Boston, 10 for Utah.
2025-26: 82 games for Boston, 82 for Utah.
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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Small sampleDavid Pastrnak has 5 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.
David Pastrnak vs Utah · game by game
See all: David Pastrnak vs Utah · game by game →Jeremy Swayman has been the difference
Jeremy Swayman faced 53 shots across 2 appearances against Utah and conceded 3, a .943 save percentage against a season figure of .914. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Jeremy Swayman
See all: Jeremy Swayman →BOS · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Michael DiPietro .897 (1 GP)
Full game logUtah crease
UTA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Jan
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 4 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Boston2.252.753.323.05
Utah4.252.003.272.93Goals 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.
3 on the injury lists
Boston · injuries
Utah · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Reinstated C Matthew Poitras from injured reserve.
Placed RW Michael Eyssimont on waivers.
Placed D Henri Jokiharju on waivers. Placed C Matthew Poitras on injured reserve.
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.
Boston · 2026 draft
See all: Boston · 2026 draft →Utah · 2026 draft
See all: Utah · 2026 draft →Saturday 23 January · the full slate
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