The club faces the first of two must-win games early in the season if they want to stay afloat in the playoff race.
Coming off a tough 3-2 loss in Los Angeles Saturday, the Utah Hockey Club now stares down the barrel of a must-win game tonight against the San Jose Sharks at Delta Center.
The Sharks will once again be without no. 1 overall pick Macklin Celebrini, who aggravated a lower-body injury suffered originally in the pre-season game against Utah in the Bay Area, a 3-1 Utah victory.
Utah HC will relatively at full-strength, with forward Nick Bjugstad making his season debut for the club in Saturday's loss in Tinseltown.
It was a game where Utah clearly came out the more aggressive and desperate team, but once again found themselves in a hole they could not climb out of in the second period.
This makes the next two games against the Sharks tonight and Calgary on Wednesday, both home games at Delta Center, veritable must-wins if Utah wants to have any hope to break out of a slump that threatens to already derail their playoff chances.
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