The preseason is a time of evaluation and development, rather than stats and wins. And that was evident for both teams in the Utah Mammoth’s loss to the Los Angeles Kings Tuesday night.

Neither team iced anything close to an NHL roster, instead opting to see what their fringe players could prove. There are still cuts to be made and jobs to be won, after all.

This was a neutral-site game located in Boise, Idaho — at least the second time the NHL has tested that market (the Arizona Coyotes faced the Vegas Golden Knights there in 2022).

The league puts on a number of these games throughout the league each preseason, sometimes to evaluate the cities as future NHL markets and other times just to engage fan bases that might otherwise be too far from big-league buildings to frequently go to ga

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