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)
