{"id":267799,"date":"2025-10-26T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/267799\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:54:10","slug":"nhl-game-preview-utah-mammoth-at-winnipeg-jets-with-line-combinations-26-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/267799\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Utah Mammoth at Winnipeg Jets with Line Combinations (26\/10\/2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WINNIPEG-JETS-vs-UTAH-HOCKEY-CLUB.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink)<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth (7-2-0) at Winnipeg Jets (6-2-0)<br \/>Venue: Canada Life Centre<br \/>Date: Tonight \u2013 Sunday, October 26<br \/>Time: 5:00 pm CST<br \/>How To Watch: TSN3<br \/>Radio: 680 CJOB<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>Utah rolls into Canada Life Centre for the first time as the Utah Mammoth, but they\u2019re also the top dog in the Central Division. They defeated the Minnesota Wild 6-2 last night and look to get another win on a back-to-back and their seventh straight win. Former Winnipeg Jets Brandon Tanev and Stanley Cup Champion defenseman Nate Schmidt make their returns to Winnipeg with the Mammoth. Utah will be without Alexander Kerfoot as he\u2019s expected to be out eight-to-ten weeks with a core muscle injury. <\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg looks to continue their winning ways as they attempt to beat the Mammoth and their seven game winning streak tonight. The Jets are also inching closer to the return of their captain, Adam Lowry, who\u2019s been out up until this point as he\u2019s recovering from hip surgery that he underwent in the offseason. Lowry shedding the non-contact jersey signals that he could be making his season debut soon, and a roster move or two could signal that he\u2019s ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Clayton Keller \u2013 Barrett Hayton \u2013 Nick Schmaltz<br \/>JJ Peterka \u2013 Logan Cooley \u2013 Dylan Guenther<br \/>Lawson Crouse \u2013 Jack McBain \u2013 Michael Carcone<br \/>Brandon Tanev \u2013 Kevin Stenlund \u2013 Liam O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p>Mikhail Sergachev \u2013 Dmitri Simashev<br \/>Nate Schmidt \u2013 John Marino<br \/>Ian Cole \u2013 Olli Maatta<\/p>\n<p>Vitek Vanacek<br \/>Karel Vejmelka<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Connor \u2013 Mark Scheifele \u2013 Gabriel Vilardi<br \/>Nino Niederreiter \u2013 Vladislav Namestnikov \u2013 Gustav Nyquist<br \/>Alex Iafallo \u2013 Jonathan Toews \u2013 Nikita Chibrikov<br \/>Cole Koepke \u2013 Morgan Barron \u2013 Tanner Pearson<\/p>\n<p>Josh Morrissey \u2013 Dylan DeMelo<br \/>Logan Stanley \u2013 Neal Pionk<br \/>Haydn Fleury \u2013 Luke Schenn<\/p>\n<p>Connor Hellebuyck<br \/>Eric Comrie<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n<p>JJ Peterka was a massive offseason addition for Utah, and he\u2019ll be looking to add to that hype with a big game against a divisional rival.<\/p>\n<p>Vitek Vanacek looks to be the difference maker tonight as he\u2019s projected to start in Winnipeg. His play could extend Utah\u2019s winning streak and keep the Mammoth in first place.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n<p>Gustav Nyquist has been a sneaky pickup by Winnipeg this offseason. He\u2019s added another layer to the Jets\u2019 scoring depth and could easily be a big contributor against Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Hellebuyck is still looking for that big performance to start the season, and Utah could be the team that he does it against.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Stanley has had a strong start to the 2025-26 season, and he\u2019s going to continue building on that momentum with a big game against Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Next game<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth \u2013 October 28 at Edmonton Oilers<br \/>Winnipeg Jets \u2013 October 28 at Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/cjack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761483250_384_e50dfbea4641d046ef8e16e2e54ca52abea6c285162ff2d320dc3eb277ca8c8d\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/cjack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conrad Jack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conrad Jack is a Manitoba based sportswriter covering the Winnipeg Jets (NHL) and the Manitoba Moose (AHL). He also covers the NHL Draft and World Junior Championship for ITR. He writes the Bargain Bin blog which covers NHL News &amp; Rumours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink) Utah Mammoth (7-2-0) at Winnipeg Jets (6-2-0)Venue: Canada Life CentreDate: Tonight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[3345,6999,1171,1121,5,78,3751,4492,4,5573,3154,40656,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-267799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-2025-26-nhl-season","9":"tag-alex-kerfoot","10":"tag-connor-hellebuyck","11":"tag-gustav-nyquist","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-jets","14":"tag-jj-peterka","15":"tag-logan-stanley","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-nhl-game-preview","18":"tag-utah-mammoth","19":"tag-vitek-vanacek","20":"tag-winnipeg","21":"tag-winnipeg-jets","22":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115440573852600424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}