{"id":471433,"date":"2026-02-25T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471433\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:45:15","slug":"avalanche-play-the-mammoth-following-lehkonens-2-goal-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471433\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche play the Mammoth following Lehkonen\u2019s 2-goal showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Colorado Avalanche (37-9-9, in the Central Division) vs. Utah Mammoth (30-23-4, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n<p>Salt Lake City; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Avalanche -135, Mammoth +114; over\/under is 6<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche visit the Utah Mammoth after Artturi Lehkonen scored two goals in the Avalanche\u2019s 4-2 win over the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Utah has a 30-23-4 record overall and a 9-7-0 record in Central Division play. The Mammoth are ninth in league play with 221 total penalties (averaging 3.9 per game).<\/p>\n<p>Colorado is 37-9-9 overall and 8-1-4 against the Central Division. The Avalanche have given up 133 goals while scoring 211 for a +78 scoring differential.<\/p>\n<p>The matchup Wednesday is the fourth meeting between these teams this season. The Avalanche won 1-0 in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Nick Schmaltz has 23 goals and 30 assists for the Mammoth. Kailer Yamamoto has five goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan MacKinnon has 40 goals and 53 assists for the Avalanche. Brock Nelson has scored seven goals and added four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Mammoth: 7-3-0, averaging 3.8 goals, 5.7 assists, 4.9 penalties and 11.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche: 4-5-1, averaging three goals, five assists, 2.8 penalties and 6.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Mammoth: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/utah16.com\/uhc-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catch nearly all Utah Mammoth games on The Spot &#8211; Utah 16 this season!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Colorado Avalanche (37-9-9, in the Central Division) vs. Utah Mammoth (30-23-4, in the Central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,285,4,1095,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-471433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-coloradoavalanche","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-national-hockey-league","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-salt-lake-city","16":"tag-utah"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116132284125825195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471433","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=471433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}