Carolina Hurricanes (51-22-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Utah Mammoth (42-30-6, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Salt Lake City; Saturday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Utah Mammoth head into a matchup with the Carolina Hurricanes as winners of five consecutive games.<\/p>\n
Utah is 21-14-3 in home games and 42-30-6 overall. The Mammoth have a +34 scoring differential, with 258 total goals scored and 224 conceded.<\/p>\n
Carolina is 22-12-4 on the road and 51-22-6 overall. The Hurricanes have gone 27-6-3 in games they have fewer penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season. The Hurricanes won 5-4 in the last matchup. Andrei Svechnikov led the Hurricanes with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Dylan Guenther has 38 goals and 33 assists for the Mammoth. Nick Schmaltz has seven goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Sebastian Aho has 26 goals and 53 assists for the Hurricanes. Logan Stankoven has scored seven goals and added three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mammoth: 7-3-0, averaging 4.4 goals, eight assists, 3.8 penalties and 11.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: 7-3-0, averaging 4.3 goals, 6.8 assists, 3.3 penalties and 6.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Mammoth: Barrett Hayton: out (upper-body), Jack McBain: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: Jalen Chatfield: day to day (lower body), Pyotr Kochetkov: out (hip), Jordan Martinook: day to day (undisclosed).<\/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 Carolina Hurricanes (51-22-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Utah Mammoth (42-30-6, in the Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-549537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116380446515189629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549537","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=549537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549537\/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=549537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}