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Early look · NHL 2026-27

Calgary Flames at Utah Mammoth: game preview

Puck drop24 Feb · 8:00 PM ET
VenueDelta Center
All-time meetings6 completed
BasisLast 5 meetings + 2025-26
The thesis

Fifteen points apart last season

Calgary finished last season 29th in the league on 77 points. Utah finished 15th on 92.

Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.

Head-to-head

Meeting number 7

Across 6 completed games, Utah lead the head-to-head 4-2-0.

All-time record4-2-0Utah's record in the series
Meetings played6This is number 7
2025-26 series—
Last 53-2Utah
DateResultShotsPower playWinner
12 Apr 2026UTA 1 – CGY 4——CGY
6 Dec 2025UTA 0 – CGY 2——CGY
15 Oct 2025CGY 1 – UTA 3——UTA
1 Apr 2025CGY 1 – UTA 3——UTA
2 Jan 2025UTA 5 – CGY 3——UTA
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The table on each 2025-26 meeting night

DateCalgaryUtah
15 Oct 20251-4-0 · 2 pts31st2-2-0 · 4 pts21st
6 Dec 202511-15-4 · 26 pts30th14-13-3 · 31 pts20th
12 Apr 202633-38-9 · 75 pts29th42-32-6 · 90 pts17th

League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 15 Oct 2025, Calgary were 31st in the league and Utah 21st. By 12 Apr 2026 it was 29th and 17th.


Where the shots come from · last 5 meetings

Utah out-attempted Calgary 184 to 156

Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.

Calgary Flames

156 att · 66 on goal · 7 G · 10.6%
Crease12 att · 3 G
Slot73 att · 2 G
Wing43 att · 0 G
Point21 att · 1 G
Neutral zone7 att · 1 G

Utah Mammoth

184 att · 89 on goal · 4 G · 4.5%
Crease11 att · 0 G
Slot73 att · 2 G
Wing63 att · 1 G
Point28 att · 0 G
Neutral zone9 att · 1 G
GoalOn goalMissedBlocked

Expected goals

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.

CalgaryUtah
2.54xG for per game3.62
3.38xG against per game2.71
42.9%xG share57.2%
−4.6FinishingGoals minus expected goals+2.5
−5.9GoaltendingExpected goals against minus goals allowed+2.8

This season: 3 games for Calgary, 4 for Utah. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.

Every team’s xG →


Special teams

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

Calgary

Small sample
Power play · 2026-2740.0%
Power play · 2025-2616.2% · 31st
Power play · last 5 meetings—
Penalty kill · 2026-2790.0%
Penalty kill · 2025-2680.4% · 12th
Faceoffs · 2026-2750.3% · 90/179
Drawn · 2026-275 (1.67/gm)
Drawn · last meetings0 (0.00/gm)
Shorthanded · 2026-2710 (3.33/gm)
PP goals · last meetings0

Utah

Small sample
Power play · 2026-2761.5%
Power play · 2025-2620.0% · 18th
Power play · last 5 meetings—
Penalty kill · 2026-2792.9%
Penalty kill · 2025-2678.1% · 19th
Faceoffs · 2026-2753.0% · 124/234
Drawn · 2026-2713 (3.25/gm)
Drawn · last meetings0 (0.00/gm)
Shorthanded · 2026-2714 (3.50/gm)
PP goals · last meetings0

Skaters

Skaters to watch

Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.

PlayerGPGAPP/GP
86Joel Farabee30220.67
22Ryan Strome31010.33
16Morgan Frost31010.33
8Nick Schmaltz45271.75
11Dylan Guenther43361.50
Points leaders
PlayerGPGAPP/GP
19Zayne Parekh30110.33
44Joel Hanley10000.00
55Jake Middleton30000.00
20Andrew Peeke41120.50
Defencemen stats

Goaltending

Who has stopped this matchup

Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.

Expected startersAn estimate until the teams confirmEvery game tonight →

Expected starter after their game on 21 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.

Expected starter after their game on 21 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.

Calgary crease

CGY · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 21 Feb

Dustin Wolf.7972 GP · 0-2-0 · GSAx −5.5
Devin Cooley.8801 GP · 0-1-0 · GSAx −0.1

No appearances against Utah in the last meetings.

Utah crease

UTA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 21 Feb

Karel Vejmelka.9133 GP · 2-1-0 · GSAx +1.7
Sebastian Cossa.9471 GP · 1-0-0 · GSAx +1.4

No appearances against Calgary in the last meetings.


Totals

Scoring rates point to about 6.0 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

12 Apr 20265 · UTA 1–4 CGY
6 Dec 20252 · UTA 0–2 CGY
15 Oct 20254 · CGY 1–3 UTA
1 Apr 20254 · CGY 1–3 UTA
2 Jan 20258 · UTA 5–3 CGY

Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.

Scoring rates

Team26-27 GF26-27 GA25-26 GF25-26 GA
Calgary1.005.332.593.16
Utah4.252.003.272.93

Goals 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.

Scoring rates suggest6.0Goals in this game
Last 5 meetings4.6Goals per game
Line—No total posted yet
Books at the line—With the game-day prices

Team news

3 on the injury lists

Calgary · injuries

Jonathan HuberdeauHipIRReturn10 Oct

Utah · injuries

Maveric LamoureuxShoulderIRReturn12 Feb
Mikhail SergachevUpper BodyDay-to-dayReturn8 Oct
5 Oct · CGY

Placed D Brayden Pachal and C Connor Zary on waivers.

26 Sep · CGY

Waived F Alex Nylander.

25 Sep · CGY

Assigned Fs Andrew Basha, Will Dineen and Tyson Gross, Ds Hunter Brzustewicz and Axel Hurtig and G Arsenii Sergeev to Calgary (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Calgary Fs Dryden Hunt, Ben Jones, Rory Kerins, Sam Morton and William Stromgren and Ds Michael Benning, Andreas Englund and Jake Livingstone.

27 Sep · UTA

Placed LW Ben McCartney on waivers.

25 Sep · UTA

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.

23 Jul 2026 · UTA

Signed D Max Psenicka to a three-year contract.

Injury report
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#30Jack HextallRound 1 · YoungstownC
#36Chase HarringtonRound 2 · SpokaneLW
#42Tobias TrejbalRound 2 · YoungstownG
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#17Ethan BelchetzRound 1 · WindsorLW
#96Adam ValentiniRound 3 · MichiganC
#115Carl AxelssonRound 4 · MuskegonG
#130Theodor KnightsRound 5 · Modo Jr.D
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