Nashville Predators (37-31-10, in the Central Division) vs. Utah Mammoth (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 scored two goals in the Mammoth’s 6-5 overtime win against the Edmonton Oilers.<\/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 has 37 goals and 32 assists for the Mammoth. Clayton Keller has seven goals and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ryan O’Reilly has 25 goals and 47 assists for the Predators. Filip Forsberg 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: out (upper-body), Jack McBain: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Predators: Nicolas Hague: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Nashville Predators (37-31-10, in the Central Division) vs. Utah Mammoth (41-30-6, in the Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5119],"tags":[5,2409,231,5281,4,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-547488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nashville","10":"tag-nashville-predators","11":"tag-nashvillepredators","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-predators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116369522900224555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547488","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=547488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}