{"id":384742,"date":"2026-01-01T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/384742\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:27:12","slug":"nhl-game-preview-utam-mammoth-at-new-york-islanders-with-line-combinations-1-1-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/384742\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Utam Mammoth at New York Islanders with Line Combinations 1\/1\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mammoth-vs.-Islanders.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Utam Mammoth at New York Islanders with Line Combinations 1\/1\/26\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth (18-19-3, 39 pts) at New York Islanders (22-14-4, 48 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: UBS Arena<br \/>Date: Thursday, January 1<br \/>Time: 3:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0NHLN, SN, Utah16, MAGSN<br \/>Radio:\u00a0103.9 FM LI News\/106.5 FM, KMMT<\/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>The Utah Mammoth\u00a0lost their second straight game after they lost Monday night 4-3 against the Predators. They\u2019re 2-3-0 in their last five games, averaging 2.2 goals per game while allowing 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders picked up a 3-2 win last night in a shootout over the Blackhawks. They\u2019re 3-2-0 in their last five games, averaging 2.2 goals per game while allowing two goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth  Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Keller-Schmaltz-Peterka<br \/>Crouse-Hayton-Guenther<br \/>But-McBain-Carcone<br \/>O\u2019Brien-Stenlund-Kerfoot<\/p>\n<p>Sergachev-Durzi<br \/>Schmidt-Marino<br \/>Cole-Desimone<\/p>\n<p>Vanecek<br \/>Villalta<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Utah&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Utah Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Heineman-Horvat-Barzal<br \/>Lee-Pageau-Drouin<br \/>Shabanov-Ritchie-Holmstrom<br \/>Duclair-Cizikas-Gatcomb<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer-Pulock<br \/>Pelech-DeAngelo<br \/>Warren-Mayfield<\/p>\n<p>Rittich<br \/>Hogberg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=isles+hockey&amp;_pos=1&amp;_psq=isles&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0&amp;_gl=1*1cyq10s*_gcl_au*OTM3MDgzMjI1LjE3NjU4MjU4OTI.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Isles Hockey merchandise here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Guenther scored a goal and had an assist in the Mammoth\u2019s 4-3 loss to the Predators on December 29th.<\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders<\/p>\n<p>Bo Horvat scored a goal and had the deciding goal in the shootout for the Islanders in their win over Chicago on December 30th.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n<p>G Karel Vejmelka\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/logan-cooley-leaves-loss-against-blues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Cooley<\/a> \u2013 OUT<\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders<\/p>\n<p>G Ilya Sorokin \u2013 IR<br \/>F Pierre Engvall \u2013 IR<br \/>G\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/semyon-varlamov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Semyon Varlamov<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>D\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/alexander-romanov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Romanov<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/kyle-palmieri\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Palmieri<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Next Game<\/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\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8db68b5dc1a6417474926df3f6d3c47ad5c5859e11a1a42050a5fdf654aba77b\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II Utah Mammoth (18-19-3, 39 pts) at New York Islanders (22-14-4, 48 pts) Venue: UBS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[6686,3669,1843,1519,4300,5,277,122,3385,1521,776,1522,2218,3328,159,5190,5189,4,5573,6870,6235,3154],"class_list":["post-384742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-islanders","tag-alexander-romanov","tag-bo-horvat","tag-central-division","tag-dylan-guenther","tag-ethan-bear","tag-hockey","tag-ilya-sorokin","tag-islanders","tag-juuso-valimaki","tag-karel-vejmelka","tag-kyle-palmieri","tag-logan-cooley","tag-metropolitan-division","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkislanders","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-pierre-engvall","tag-semyon-varlamov","tag-utah-mammoth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115819606656601338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384742","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=384742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}