The Utah Mammoth's 2025-26 season continues tonight with a battle that just about every NHL fan was hoping for. In a matchup that I'm personally calling the Battle of Age Ice Characters.

If you haven't guessed yet, they are taking on the Nashville Predators, which means, they are just Sid the Sloth short of the three main characters from the movie Ice Age. The Mammoth are planning on going with the same 11-7 lineup format that they used last game. That should chance when Alex Kerfoot and Barrett Hayton return to the lineup.

Puck drop is set for 6:00 pm MDT/8:00 pm EST at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. 

Mammoth Projected Lineup

Forward:

Clayton Keller — Jack McBain — Nick Schmaltz

JJ Peterka — Logan Cooley — Dylan Guenther

Lawson Crouse — Kevin Stenlund — Kailer Yamamoto

Andrew Agozzino — Brandon Tanev

Defense:

Mikhail Sergachev — John Marino

Nate Schmidt — Sean Durzi

Ian Cole — Dmitri Simashev

Olli Maatta

Goalies: 

Karel Vejmelka

Vitek Vanecek

Scratched: Michael Carcone, Nick DeSimone

Injured: Alex Kerfoot (lower body), Liam O’Brien (lower body), Barrett Hayton (lower body)

Avalanche projected lineup

Forward: 

Filip Forsberg — Brady Martin — Ryan O’Reilly

Steven Stamkos — Fedor Svechkov — Luke Evangelista

Michael Bunting — Erik Haula — Jonathan Marchessault

Cole Smith — Michael McCarron — Tyson Jost

Defense:

Adam Wilsby — Roman Josi

Brady Skjei — Nick Perbix

Spencer Stastney — Justin Barron

Goalies:

Juuse Saros

Justus Annunen

Scratched: Ozzy Wiesblatt, Nick Blankenburg, Joakim Kemell

Injured: Nicolas Hague (upper body)

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