{"id":396961,"date":"2026-01-08T05:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/396961\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T05:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:20:01","slug":"ottawa-senators-vs-utah-mammoth-picks-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/396961\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators vs Utah Mammoth Picks &#038; Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-xs leading-5 text-gray-400 mb-2\">\n                        Prediction published on 1\/7\/26, 5:10\u202fPM<br \/>\n                        \u00a0by<br \/>\n                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportytrader.com\/us\/author\/edgar-jibran-104\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edgar Jibran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                            in<br \/>\n                                <a data-trans=\"tips.published.competition %competition%\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportytrader.com\/us\/picks\/hockey\/usa\/nhl-596\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                    NHL Picks<br \/>\n                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of next Wednesday\u2019s NHL schedule activity will belong to inter-conference games, and even though the clash that will feature the clash between the Ottawa Senators and the Utah Mammoth doesn\u2019t generate any expectations from the ice hockey fans, both teams are expected to perform near their best performance.<\/p>\n<p>The referred expectation makes sense when looking at that both teams are currently out of the playoff spots in their respective conferences; however, the Utah Mammoth could take advantage of playing at home to try to take the San Jose Sharks or the Los Angeles Kings from the eighth spot in the Western Conference\u2019s standings. Despite this, the Mammoth have only been able to win one of their last five games in regulation time.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Ottawa Senators, they were unable to extend their two-game winning streak after losing their most recent divisional game against the Detroit Red Wings (5-3), a game during which they showed deep defensive troubles, especially in the first period. With this in mind, the Senators aren\u2019t expected to show a significant improvement for the second half of the regular season, so they aren\u2019t expected to qualify for the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prediction published on 1\/7\/26, 5:10\u202fPM \u00a0by Edgar Jibran in NHL Picks Most of next Wednesday\u2019s NHL schedule activity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5104],"tags":[183,5,4,72,25,5157,73,47256,3154],"class_list":{"0":"post-396961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-betting","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-ottawa","12":"tag-ottawa-senators","13":"tag-ottawasenators","14":"tag-senators","15":"tag-tips","16":"tag-utah-mammoth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115857799535286236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396961","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=396961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}