Columbus Blue Jackets at Utah Mammoth: game preview
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17that
UtahMammoth2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 15thTwo clubs level on last season's points
Columbus finished last season 17th in the league on 92 points. Utah finished 15th on 92, and the 2025-26 season series went CBJ 1-0-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 6
Across 5 completed games, Columbus lead the head-to-head 2-0-2.
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 11 Jan 2026, Columbus were 28th in the league and Utah 21st. By 3 Oct it was 19th and 3rd.
Utah out-attempted Columbus 357 to 300
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Columbus Blue Jackets
Utah Mammoth
Columbus and Utah are level on 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: 2 games for Columbus, 4 for Utah. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Columbus, 10 for Utah.
2025-26: 82 games for Columbus, 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
Columbus
Small sampleUtah
Small sampleClayton Keller has 8 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.
Clayton Keller vs Columbus · game by game
See all: Clayton Keller vs Columbus · game by game →Jet Greaves has started most of these meetings
Jet Greaves played 2 of the last 5 meetings with Utah, with a .897 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Jet Greaves
See all: Jet Greaves →CBJ · 1-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 14 Feb
Karel Vejmelka
See all: Karel Vejmelka →UTA · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 14 Feb
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Sebastian Cossa .947 (1 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.2 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
Columbus3.503.503.093.09
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.
2 on the injury lists
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
Utah · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed LW Mikael Pyyhtia on waivers.
Placed D Ivan Provorov on injured reserve.
Assigned G Pheonix Copley to Cleveland (AHL).
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.
Columbus · 2026 draft
See all: Columbus · 2026 draft →Utah · 2026 draft
See all: Utah · 2026 draft →
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