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Team diagnostic
2025-26last seasonAs of Sun, Sep 20

Utah Mammoth

5-on-5 · model-estimated

Mammoth: a outshot/run-and-gun team (0.0% 5v5 xG) with league-average goaltending.

How to read this

This is one team through the publication's three layers. The identity row separates process — the chances a club creates and allows (, ) — from luck, which is what measures. Process predicts the future; luck predicts a correction.

Everything below follows that split: regression flags mark places where results have outrun (or trailed) the underlying play, talent tiers and the player table rank the roster by a model-estimated , and roster needs compare each position group against league average. The proxies rank things usefully but share credit with linemates — read orderings as solid and exact magnitudes as approximate.

PROCESS
chance creation and possession — xG%, Corsi. The repeatable part.
RESULT
goals, wins, special-teams conversion. What the standings see.
LUCK
PDO, finishing vs expected, GSAx — the part that mean-reverts.
GOLD/RED
regression flags: gold = watch it, red = act on it
Fine print · verbatim from the model
  • WAR / Impact are model-estimated proxies, not cap-validated
  • Roster-need gaps are ordinal — ranked correctly, magnitudes relative
Identity · outshot/run-and-gun
0.0%
xGoals %
This team gets buried territorially.
52.9%
Corsi %
0.00
xGF / 60
1.003
PDO
Luck is about neutral; the record is earned.
Strengths
  • No standout edges flagged.
Weaknesses
  • Out-chanced at 5v5 (0.0% xG share).
  • Leaky penalty kill (78% kill rate).
Talent tiers · model impact
Elite00
  • None
Top13
  • Clayton Keller
  • Dylan Guenther
  • Nick Schmaltz
  • Lawson Crouse
  • Logan Cooley
  • John Marino
  • Michael Carcone
  • Nate Schmidt
  • Kailer Yamamoto
  • Barrett Hayton
  • Ian Cole
  • Nick DeSimone
  • Daniil But
Middle04
  • JJ Peterka
  • Mikhail Sergachev
  • Sean Durzi
  • Jack McBain
Depth06
  • Alexander Kerfoot
  • MacKenzie Weegar
  • Liam O'Brien
  • Dmitri Simashev
  • Brandon Tanev
  • Kevin Stenlund
Rate-first

Special teams

Power play
0.00 xGF/60 · 20.0% SH%
6.00GF/60
Penalty kill
0.8 Kill%
7.81GA/60
Source · MoneyPuck 5-on-5 + ST splits
Team GSAx +0.0

Goaltending

Above expected
GoaltenderGP
Karel Vejmelka6489.670+0.0
Vitek Vanecek2288.340+0.0
Source · GSAx = xGoals − goals, computed in-app
Roster needs · ranked
01
Depth defensehigh
team 61.0 vs league 87.3
-26
02
Bottom-6 forward depthhigh
team 58.8 vs league 81.9
-23
03
Top-pair defensemanhigh
team 74.3 vs league 91.5
-17
04
Top-6 forwardhigh
team 72.2 vs league 86.1
-14

Gaps are ordinal — needs are ranked correctly; treat the magnitude as relative, not absolute.

Top players · adjusted impact
PlayerGPTOI/GP
Clayton KellerR8214.9+70.60+4.0
Dylan GuentherR7913.2+74.50+3.7
Nick SchmaltzC8214.3+67.30+3.4
Lawson CrouseL8112.4+69.70+2.3
Logan CooleyC5413.7+74.30+2.2
JJ PeterkaR8213.7+56.60+2.1
John MarinoD8017.9+69.10+1.7
Mikhail SergachevD7817.3+47.80+1.7
Michael CarconeL7911.6+70.00+1.7
Nate SchmidtD8216.7+74.00+1.5
Schedule load · logistics

How hard is this team’s season, logistically? This grades the schedule itself — travel, rest, and clustering — separate from how good the team is.

Logistics, not talent

Schedule load

AVERAGE
Load index
58/ 100 · pctile vs league

The 14th-heaviest schedule in the league84 games, 1.3 days average rest.

Total travel
47,653
road miles flown
10
Back-to-backs
2 games, 0 days off
15
3-in-4s
3 games / 4 nights
16
4-in-6s
4 games / 6 nights
6
Longest road trip
4,816 mi
Rest-days distribution
0d10
1d53
2d13
3+d7

Nights of rest before each game · 0 days = red, 3+ = green

Rest advantage

21 games with more rest than the opponent · 22 with fewer · 40 even.

Hardest stretches
  • 6 games in 10 days with 5,201 travel miles

    Feb 12Feb 21

  • 6 games in 9 days with 2,674 travel miles

    Nov 25Dec 3

  • 6 games in 12 days with 5,127 travel miles

    Feb 26Mar 9

Source · NHL schedule · arena coordinates · rest & travel model
By the Model5-on-5 aggregates · MoneyPuck* WAR / Impact are model-estimated proxies, not cap-validated