{"id":547078,"date":"2026-04-08T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547078\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:06:12","slug":"mammoth-host-the-predators-after-schmaltzs-2-goal-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547078\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth host the Predators after Schmaltz’s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nashville Predators<\/a> (37-31-10, in the Central Division) vs. Utah Mammoth<\/a> (41-30-6, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n

Salt Lake City; Thursday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Utah Mammoth host the Nashville Predators after Nick Schmaltz<\/a> scored two goals in the Mammoth’s 6-5 overtime win against the Edmonton Oilers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Utah has a 41-30-6 record overall and an 11-10-2 record in Central Division play. The Mammoth have gone 19-9-1 when scoring a power-play goal.<\/p>\n

Nashville is 37-31-10 overall and 11-9-4 against the Central Division. The Predators are 31-6-3 in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season. The Mammoth won the previous matchup 5-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Dylan Guenther<\/a> has 37 goals and 32 assists for the Mammoth. Clayton Keller<\/a> has seven goals and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ryan O’Reilly<\/a> has 25 goals and 47 assists for the Predators. Filip Forsberg<\/a> has eight goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mammoth: 7-3-0, averaging 4.6 goals, 7.7 assists, 4.1 penalties and 12.4 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Predators: 6-3-1, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.9 assists, 4.2 penalties and 10.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mammoth: Barrett Hayton<\/a>: out (upper-body), Jack McBain<\/a>: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n

Predators: Nicolas Hague<\/a>: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators (37-31-10, in the Central Division) vs. Utah Mammoth (41-30-6, in the Central Division) Salt Lake City;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[3668,1518,1519,56683,3577,5,7040,2409,231,5281,285,4,5619,3709,2410,3671,3154],"class_list":{"0":"post-547078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-barrett-hayton","9":"tag-clayton-keller","10":"tag-dylan-guenther","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-filip-forsberg","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-jack-mcbain","15":"tag-nashville","16":"tag-nashville-predators","17":"tag-nashvillepredators","18":"tag-national-hockey-league","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nick-schmaltz","21":"tag-nicolas-hague","22":"tag-predators","23":"tag-ryan-oreilly","24":"tag-utah-mammoth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116368296130228971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547078","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=547078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}