New Jersey Devils at Utah Mammoth: game preview
New JerseyDevils2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 42-37-3 · 87 pts · 21stat
UtahMammoth2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 15thFive points apart last season
New Jersey finished last season 21st in the league on 87 points. Utah finished 15th on 92, and the 2025-26 season series went NJD 2-0-0.
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, New Jersey lead the head-to-head 4-0-0.
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 19 Dec 2025, New Jersey were 9th in the league and Utah 21st. By 6 Oct it was 28th and 2nd.
Utah out-attempted New Jersey 303 to 287
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
New Jersey Devils
Utah Mammoth
New Jersey 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: 3 games for New Jersey, 4 for Utah. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for New Jersey, 10 for Utah.
2025-26: 82 games for New Jersey, 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
New Jersey
Small sampleUtah
Small sampleNico Hischier has 6 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.
Nico Hischier vs Utah · game by game
See all: Nico Hischier vs Utah · game by game →Jake Allen has been the difference
Jake Allen faced 51 shots across 2 appearances against Utah and conceded 5, a .902 save percentage against a season figure of .875. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 27 Dec: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 26 Dec: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Jake Allen
See all: Jake Allen →NJD · 1-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 26 Dec
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Nico Daws .813 (1 GP)
Full game logKarel Vejmelka
See all: Karel Vejmelka →UTA · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 26 Dec
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Sebastian Cossa .947 (1 GP)
Full game logScoring 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
New Jersey2.004.332.803.10
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.
7 on the injury lists
New Jersey · injuries
Utah · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Claimed LW Jeremie Poirier off waivers.
Claimed LW Jeremie Poirier off waivers. Placed C/RW Marc McLaughlin, LD Vladislav Kolyachonok, G David Rittich, LW Riley Tufte, LD Topias Vilen, and C/RW Colin White on waivers.
Assigned Ds Mikael Diotte, Ethan Edwards, Jeremy Hanzel, Etienne Morin and Anton Silaev, Fs Josh Filmon, Lenni Hameenaho, Shane Lachance, Matyas Melovsky, Xavier Parent, Cam Squires and Ben Steeves and G Jakub Malek to Utica (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Utica Ds DJ King, Charles Leddy and Eamon Powell, Fs Tristan Ashbrook, Zachary Gallant, Gabe Klassen, Jack Malone, Justin Pearson, Ryan Schmelzer, Cristophe Tellier and Jermey Wilmer and Gs Jeremy Brodeur and Seth Eisele.
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.
New Jersey · 2026 draft
See all: New Jersey · 2026 draft →Utah · 2026 draft
See all: Utah · 2026 draft →
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