{"id":449421,"date":"2026-02-02T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449421\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:28:08","slug":"nhl-game-preview-utah-mammoth-vs-vancouver-canucks-with-line-combinations-02-02-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449421\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Utah Mammoth vs. Vancouver Canucks with Line Combinations | 02\/02\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Canucks (18-31-6, 42 pts) at Utah Mammoth (28-23-4, 60 pts)<br \/>Venue: Delta Center<br \/>Date: Monday, February 2<br \/>Time: 9:30 pm ET \/ 6:30 pm PT<\/p>\n<p>TV: ESPN+ \/ Scripps Sports \/ Sportsnet<br \/>Radio:\u00a0<br \/>Vancouver Canucks \u2013 Sportsnet 650 AM<br \/>Utah Mammoth \u2013 KSL Sports Zone 1280 AM<\/p>\n<p>DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:<br \/>Vancouver Canucks +1.5 ML +215<br \/>Utah Mammoth -1.5 ML -265<br \/>O\/U 6.5<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks News and Notes:<\/p>\n<p>After an eight-game home stand and just two games left before the break, the Vancouver Canucks head to the Southwest, where they take on the Utah Mammoth tonight and the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday. Although the Canucks have been heavily on the tanking trajectory, they picked up a few points on this stretch at home, going 2-5-1. However, the Canucks remain sellers as we get closer to the NHL Trade Deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth News and Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Utah Mammoth are right in the thick of things in the Western Conference Wild Card Race, currently sitting in the second spot. In such a tight race, this is a big game for the Utah Mammoth to take advantage of a very winnable matchup against the Vancouver Canucks. After losing three of their last four games, every point counts for the Mammoth as we enter the break and get closer and closer to Playoff time.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Kane-E. Pettersson-Garland<br \/>Chytil-Kampf-Karlsson<br \/>O\u2019Connor-Raty-DeBrusk<br \/>Ohgren-Blueger-Lakkerimaki<\/p>\n<p>E. N. Pettersson-Hronek<br \/>Joseph-Myers<br \/>M. Pettersson-Willander<\/p>\n<p>Lankinen<br \/>Tolopilo<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Keller-Schmaltz-Crouse<br \/>Peterka-Hayton-Yamamoto<br \/>Carcone-McBain-Guenther<br \/>Tanev-Stenlund-But<\/p>\n<p>Sergachev-Durzi<br \/>Schmidt-Marino<br \/>Cole-DeSimone<\/p>\n<p>Vejmelka<br \/>Vanacek<\/p>\n<p>Players to Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks:<\/p>\n<p>Since all the recent injuries to the forward core in Vancouver, with names like <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/brock-boeser\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"901\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Boeser<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/marco-rossi\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"5370\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Rossi<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/nils-hoglander\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3127\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nils Hoglander<\/a> who are out, Jonathan Lekkerimaki is officially back up in the NHL. Despite coming back on Tuesday against the San Jose Sharks, Lekkerimaki was able to get on the board with his second goal of the season against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. He\u2019s looking to continue with more opportunities on the main roster. Tom Willander was also able to find the back of the net in that 3-2 loss as well, symbolizing some solid production from the new, young image of the Canucks.<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth:<\/p>\n<p>In what was a tough battle in a 3-2 loss to the Dallas Stars on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/kailer-yamamoto\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"595\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kailer Yamamoto<\/a> potted both goals, including one in the third period, to cut the lead in the clutch, but it wasn\u2019t enough. He looks to carry on his red-hot stretch since coming back from injury on January 24th against the Nashville Predators, where he\u2019s put up seven points in his last five games and five points in his last two games. JJ Peterka was also able to put up a couple of points while assisting on both of Yamamoto\u2019s goals on Saturday as well.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">LW Nils Hoglander \u2013 Day to Day<br \/>D Zeev Buium \u2013 IR<br \/>RW Brock Boeser \u2013 IR<br \/>C Marco Rossi \u2013 IR<br \/>D Guillaume Brisebois \u2013 IR<br \/>D Derek Forbort \u2013 LTIR<br \/>G Thatcher Demko \u2013 SELTIR<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">LW Alex Kerfoot \u2013 IR<br \/>C Logan Cooley \u2013 IR<br \/>G Anson Thornton \u2013 IR<br \/>D Terrell Goldsmith \u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks: Wednesday, February 4 at Vegas Golden Knights \u2013 10pm ET<br \/>Utah Mammoth: Wednesday, February 4 vs Detroit Red Wings \u2013 9pm ET<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks (18-31-6, 42 pts) at Utah Mammoth (28-23-4, 60 pts)Venue: Delta CenterDate: Monday, February 2Time: 9:30 pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[450,49,48,757,88903,24495,185113,14929,760,448,19123,19120,21642,764,82,16875,746,767,185114],"class_list":["post-449421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-brock-boeser","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dallas-stars","tag-jj-peterka","tag-jonathan-lekkerimaki","tag-kailer-yamamoto","tag-marco-rossi","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-nils-hoglander","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports","tag-tom-willander","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-wild-card-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}