{"id":553813,"date":"2026-04-16T12:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/553813\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:15:21","slug":"utah-mammoth-to-face-vegas-in-first-round-of-nhl-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/553813\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Mammoth to face Vegas in first round of NHL Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 The stage is set for the Utah Mammoth&#8217;s first-ever appearance in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, we&#8217;re just waiting for the showtimes.<\/p>\n<p>Utah learned late Wednesday that they will face the Vegas Golden Knights in the first round, which gets underway this weekend. The Golden Knights will have home-ice advantage due to being Pacific Division champions.<\/p>\n<p>Game dates and times will be announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The first round matchup was secured after Vegas defeated Seattle 4-1 on Wednesda, almost a week after the Mammoth clinched its postseason bid.<\/p>\n<p>The Mammoth won the regular season series against Vegas, going 2-1-0 against the Golden Knights, but Vegas enters the playoffs as one of the hottest teams in the league, currently riding a 7-0-1 streak to end the regular season schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Utah will close out its regular season Thursday at home against the St. Louis Blues.<\/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 The stage is set for the Utah Mammoth&#8217;s first-ever appearance in the NHL Stanley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,285,4,1095,51,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-553813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-golden-knights","9":"tag-goldenknights","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-national-hockey-league","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-salt-lake-city","14":"tag-utah","15":"tag-vegas","16":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","17":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116414337746067221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553813","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=553813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}