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Sat, April 25, 2026 at 1:28 AM UTC\"\"<\/p>\n

Mammoth fans pumped up for first home playoff game<\/p>\n

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 Sports) \u2013 Exactly two years to the day, the new Utah NHL hockey team was introduced to fans in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n

On Friday, those rabid fans were pumped up beyond belief for the Mammoth\u2019s first home playoff game.<\/p>\n

The Mammoth host the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 3 at the Delta Center, tied at one game apiece.<\/p>\n

Mammoth look to take series lead against Vegas <\/a><\/p>\n

Fans lined up more than three hours before the puck dropped outside the arena to get ready for Friday\u2019s crucial game.<\/p>\n

Click on the video to see Sports Director Dana Greene take a tour through the Mammoth tailgate party.<\/p>\n

Before the game, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced that the Winter Classic, the annual outdoor regular season game, will be played New Year\u2019s Eve at Rice-Eccles Stadium between the Mammoth and the Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC4 Utah. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, April 25, 2026 at 1:28 AM UTC Mammoth fans pumped up for first home playoff game SALT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[144,63138,295,5,62414,3153,4,63139,1095,51,5290,232,3154,5291,5289,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-559781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-hockey-club","8":"tag-colorado-avalanche","9":"tag-dana-greene","10":"tag-gary-bettman","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-home-playoff-game","13":"tag-mammoth","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rabid-fans","16":"tag-salt-lake-city","17":"tag-utah","18":"tag-utah-hc","19":"tag-utah-hockey-club","20":"tag-utah-mammoth","21":"tag-utahhc","22":"tag-utahhockeyclub","23":"tag-vegas-golden-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116469651520155840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559781","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=559781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}