- 1 Utah Mammoth vs San Jose Sharks: the league’s second-best power play against a 2-8 team
- 2 Utah Mammoth: 37.1% on the power play, 69.6% on the penalty kill
- 3 San Jose Sharks: one shootout win in their last six and a 30th-ranked offence
- 4 Free NHL Prediction: Utah Mammoth vs San Jose Sharks
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Utah Mammoth vs San Jose Sharks: the league’s second-best power play against a 2-8 team 
Celebrini has 21 points in 17 games, 7 goals and 14 assists. No other San Jose player has more than 13, and that gap explains most of what’s gone wrong for the Sharks this autumn.
They take that attack to the Delta Center on Saturday November 14, puck drop 9pm ET, against a Utah team that scores 3.50 goals a game, ninth in the league.
San Jose are 8-11-1 with 17 points and have won 2 of their last 10. One of those wins came on Monday, a 3-2 shootout decision over the Islanders that ended a five-game losing run. Stenberg, the No. 2 pick in the 2026 draft, scored the winner in the eighth round.
Utah sit fifth in the Central at 10-7-1 with 21 points. They’ve lost two in a row, 5-4 in overtime in Montreal and 4-2 in Ottawa on November 7.
The Mammoth’s week is busy. They’re at Vegas on Wednesday, home to St. Louis on Thursday, then get one day off before the Sharks arrive. San Jose host Pittsburgh on Wednesday and have two days of rest.
The Sharks won two of three meetings last season, 3-2 in overtime and 6-3, both in San Jose. Utah won the only game in Salt Lake City, 6-3 in October 2025. This is the first meeting of the new season.
Utah Mammoth: 37.1% on the power play, 69.6% on the penalty kill 
Utah’s special teams pull in opposite directions. The power play converts 37.1% of its chances, second in the league. The penalty kill stops 69.6%, which ranks 27th.
That shows up in the totals. The Mammoth have scored 63 and allowed 63 in 18 games, an average of seven goals a night.
Keller leads the team with 24 points, 19 of them assists. Cooley has 11 goals, the most on the roster, and Schmaltz and Sergachev both have 20 points. Trocheck, acquired from the Rangers on July 1, has 10 points, as does Hayton, who is +8. Guenther has 6 goals and 12 points.
Neither goalie has settled things. Vejmelka is 6-6-0 with a 3.29 goals-against average and an .867 save percentage over 13 games. Cossa, who came from Detroit in June, has the same goals-against average, an .871 save percentage and a 4-1-1 record.
Kailer Yamamoto is on injured reserve with an upper-body injury. Maveric Lamoureux (shoulder), John Marino (upper body) and Nate Schmidt, hurt on November 5, were also out at the last update.
The Mammoth are 4-2-0 at home and 6-5-1 away. With a back-to-back on Wednesday and Thursday, the goalie who sits on Thursday is the likelier starter on Saturday, though nothing has been announced.
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San Jose Sharks: one shootout win in their last six and a 30th-ranked offence 
Before Monday’s shootout, the Sharks had lost five straight: 5-1 to Ottawa, 2-1 to Calgary, 7-2 in Los Angeles, 4-1 in Minnesota and 4-3 in Dallas.
They score 2.44 goals per game, 30th in the league, and allow 3.56, also 30th. The power play sits at 21.9%, 14th, which is respectable but went 0 for 4 against the Islanders.
Celebrini carries the offence. W. Smith has 7 goals and 13 points, Stenberg has 6 goals and Misa 11 points. Trouba, signed on July 1, has 8 assists from the back end.
Askarov has started most nights. He was 4-8-0 with a .885 save percentage before Monday, when he stopped 30 of 32 shots. Nedeljkovic is 3-3-1 with a .895.
Alexander Wennberg returned on Monday after missing 10 games with an upper-body injury. Igor Chernyshov is week-to-week with an upper-body problem. Toffoli, Marchment, Sherwood and Nurse were all in Monday’s projected lineup; Nurse arrived from Edmonton in a July 1 trade and Kesselring came over from Buffalo in June.
San Jose are 4-6-1 on the road. They host Nashville on Sunday, so Saturday is the first half of a back-to-back.
Probable lineup Utah Mammoth: Not announced at time of publication. Up front: Keller, Cooley, Schmaltz, Guenther, Trocheck, Hayton; Sergachev on defence. In goal: Vejmelka or Cossa.
Probable lineup San Jose Sharks: Not announced at time of publication. Up front: Celebrini, W. Smith, Stenberg, Misa, Toffoli, Wennberg; Trouba, Nurse and Orlov on defence. Expected in goal: Askarov.
Free NHL Prediction: Utah Mammoth vs San Jose Sharks
Our prediction: Over 5.5 goals
I’d rather back goals than a side here. Utah’s games have averaged seven, and they’ve conceded 3.50 per game behind two goalies with save percentages of .867 and .871. Their power play at 37.1% gets to face a Sharks team that gives up 3.56 a night.
San Jose’s offence is the argument against. They’ve scored 2.44 per game, and they put up only two in regulation on Monday. But Utah’s penalty kill, 27th at 69.6%, hands chances even to weak power plays, and the Sharks’ sits mid-table.
The Mammoth to win is the more obvious pick, and I’d still lean that way. With a back-to-back just behind them and two sub-.875 goalies, though, six goals is the number to trust. No sportsbook line was posted at the time of writing.
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