NHL Game Preview: Utah Hockey Club at Calgary Flames with Line Combinations 1/2/2024

Utah Hockey Club (16-15-6, 38 pts) at Calgary Flames (18-12-7, 43 pts)

Venue: Scotiabank Saddledome
Date: Thursday, January 2
Time: 9:00 pm ET
TV: ESPN+/Utah16/ SNW
Radio: 
Utah– The KSL Sports Zone 1280 AM / 97.5 FM
Calgary – Sportsnet 96.0

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Utah +1.5 ML -108
Calgary -1.5 ML -112
O/U 5.5

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Utah Hockey Club News & Notes: 

Utah has dropped five straight games being outscored 21-12. They wrapped up December going 6-5-2 and currently sit five points out of a playoff spot as the calendar flips to January.

Calgary Flames News & Notes: 

Calgary picked up a win on Tuesday after seeing their two game losing streak snapped on Sunday. They wrapped up December going 6-3-3 and currently hold the final Wild Card spot in the Western Conference as we enter 2025.

Utah Hockey Club Projected Lines:

O’Brien Keller-Hayton-Schmaltz
McBain-Cooley-Guenther
Maccelli-Bjugstad-Crouse
Kerfoot-Stenlund-Carcone
Sergachev-Maatta
Cole-Kesselring
Valimaki-Kolyachonok

Vejmelka
Stauber

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Calgary Flames Projected Lines:

Huberdeau-Kadri-Pospisil
Coleman-Backlund-Coronato
Sharangovich-Zary-Pelletier
Lomberg-Rooney-Duehr
Bahl-Andersson
Weegar-Hanley
Bean-Pachal

Vladar
Wolf

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Players To Watch:

Utah Hockey Club 

Mikhail Sergachev this season has 27 points on eight goals and 19 assists. He’s faced the Flames ten times in his career recording seven points on a goal and six assists; in the previous matchup earlier this season he had a goal and two assists.

Calgary Flames

Yegor Sharangovich this season has ten points on six goals and four assists. He’s faced Utah/Arizona seven times in his career recording eight points on seven goals and an assist; he didn’t have a point in the previous matchup this season but last year in three games he had five goals.

Injury Report:

Utah Hockey Club 

D Robert Bortuzzo – OUT
D Maveric Lamoureux – IR
G Connor Ingram – IR  
D Sean Durzi – IR
F Clayton Keller – Out
D John Marino – IR

Calgary Flames

F Anthony Mantha – IR
F Justin Kirkland – IR

Next game:

Utah – January 4 at Dallas Stars
Calgary – January 4 vs. Nashville Predators

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