Getting to know the Mammoth<\/p>\n
Clayton Keller – Nick Schmaltz – Lawson Crouse<\/p>\n
Logan Cooley – Vincent Trocheck – Dylan Guenther<\/p>\n
Anders Lee – Barrett Hayton – Kailer Yamamoto<\/p>\n
Jack McBain – Kevin Stenlund – Liam O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n
Mikhail Sergachev – MacKenzie Weegar<\/p>\n
Nate Schmidt – Andrew Peeke<\/p>\n
Dmitri Simashev – Nick DeSimone<\/p>\n
Goalies: Karel Vejmelka, Sebastian Cossa<\/p>\n
Potential scratches: John Marino (week-to-week), Daniil But, Artem Duda<\/p>\n
Injured Reserve: Michael Carcone (upper body), Maverick Lamoureux<\/p>\n
Former Penguins defenseman John Marino is considered<\/a> week-to-week with an upper-body injury.Liam O\u2019Brien could be making his season debut against the Penguins after appearing in his first game of the campaign against the Wild. He was one of three players who dropped the gloves Tuesday against the Wild.<\/p>\n The Mammoth have seen very different results from their different special teams through this early stretch of the season.<\/p>\n Utah is heading into the matchup ranked<\/a> 29th in the league with a 67.4 percent penalty kill success rate.<\/p>\n Head coach Andr\u00e9 Tourigny said<\/a> after his team gave up two power-play goals against in Tuesday\u2019s 3-1 loss his team learning more \u201cdiscipline\u201d would be key going forward.<\/p>\n The Mammoth are meanwhile overall averaging 3.62 goals per game, a number that is good for the sixth-most in the NHL and that has been inflated by the team\u2019s success on the power play.<\/p>\n Utah ranks second in the NHL with a 34.8 percent power play success rate, although the unit went 0-for-4 Tuesday against the Wild. Nick Schmaltz\u2019s five man-advantage goals in 13 games are still tied<\/a> for the second most in the NHL.<\/p>\n On the other hand, the Mammoth are tied with the Penguins and two other teams for 11th in 5v5 scoring. Utah is also looking for a rebound performance offensively after being most recently held to just one extra-attacker goal in the final two minutes of regulation in their loss to the Wild.<\/p>\n It hasn\u2019t been a particularly strong start to the season for either Mammoth goaltender. Only the Vancouver Canucks have recorded a lower<\/a> team save percentage than Utah\u2019s mark of .866. Both Karel Vejmelka and Sebastian Cossa rank bottom-11 in the league (out of 71 goaltenders) in goals saved above expected, per HockeyStats.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sportsnet\u2019s Nick Kypreos said last week the Mammoth are not \u201csold on Karel Vejmelka being the No. 1\u201d who could lead his team on a playoff run (h\/t NHL Rumor Report<\/a>), although Tourigny said<\/a> after the Tuesday loss to the Wild he felt Vejmelka was \u201cback on track.\u201d<\/p>\n Utah was tied to an interest in Connor Hellebuyck before he was traded to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for a haul including four players and two draft picks. How Vejmelka performs as this early stretch of the season continues could impact whether the Mammoth eventually take a swing at upgrading their goaltending ahead of the deadline.<\/p>\n Tommy Novak – Sidney Crosby – Rickard Rakell<\/p>\n Egor Chinakhov – Ben Kindel – Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n Andrei Kuzmenko – Hendrix Lapierre – Ville Koivunen<\/p>\n Connor Dewar – Blake Lizotte – Nick Robertson<\/p>\n Spencer Stastney \/ Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n Declan Carlile \/ Kaeden Korczak<\/p>\n Ilya Solovyov \/ Kris Letang<\/p>\n Goalies: Arturs Silovs and Sergei Murashov<\/p>\n Potential Scratches: Rutger McGroarty, Ilya Solovyov<\/p>\n IR: Ryan Graves, Elmer Soderblom<\/p>\n The Penguins could be getting a few players back from health issues after their four-day break. Sam Girard and Egor Chinakhov are back at practice after missing three and two games, respectively. Ben Kindel looks ready to slot back into the lineup for the first time since the Penguins\u2019 last game against the Mammoth.More roster updates: Rutger McGroarty was absent from Wednesday\u2019s session and could be a scratch. Avery Hayes and Chase Pietila were re-assigned to the AHL on Wednesday. Justin Brazeau has also been sent to Wilkes\/Barre on a conditioning stint after getting activated from IR, while Elmer Soderblom replaced him on the list.The Penguins were running a top power-play unit of Sidney Crosby, Erik Karlsson, Ville Koivunen, Tommy Novak and Rickard Rakell, while slotting Chinakhov and Kindel alongside Andrei Kuzmenko, Kris Letang and Evgeni Malkin on the second unit at Wednesday\u2019s practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who: Utah Mammoth (8-5-0, 16 points, 2nd place Central Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (5-6-1, 11 points, 6th place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[128082,385,99],"class_list":["post-898923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-game-preview","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-28-at-11.30.12-PM.png\"\/)
<\/a>The Mammoth rank third in the NHL with a 54.8 percent face-off rate so far this season, while the Penguins rank 30th after going 45.6 from the dot. Vincent Trocheck has won an impressive 62.8 percent of his face-offs over this early stretch.Mikhail Sergachev, who is tied with Clayton Keller for the points lead in Utah, is riding a five-game point streak (1-5\u20146) into tonight\u2019s matchup. Logan Cooley meanwhile has three goals in two games.<\/p>\n