The last time the Colorado Mammoth were in Edmonton, they were treated to a 17-6 Georges St. Pierre-style beatdown at the hands of the Edmonton Rush.

It was Edmonton’s largest margin of victory on a season full of them, as they have gone on to 13-0 — NLL records for both starts to a season and consecutive single-season wins — following last Sunday’s 13-10 win over the Toronto Rock

And they didn’t require any further help from the former MMA icon in their corner to do it, either.

“It was definitely our biggest test of the season and it was tough,” said Rush head coach and GM Derek Keenan, whose squad beat the Rochester Knighthawks 15-11 the night before. “We battled through some adversity against two really good teams in hard places to play in and managed to pull two out.

“This group just continues to focus on our objective of trying to get better every week.”

On Saturday, the Rush return for a rematch on Crystal Glass Field at Rexall Place, where they established a new franchise record sixth victory of the season their last time out.

This time, they will look to follow up that 14-5 trouncing of the Buffalo Bandits from two weeks ago with their third meeting of the season with the Mammoth — whom they will turn around and face for the fourth and final time next Friday.

If familiarity breeds contempt, then you can bet there will be no love lost between these two teams, as Edmonton won their first two meetings by a combined 30-16.

“Obviously we’re going in being the underdog, but we’re not going to mail it in,” said Mammoth interim coach Dan Stroup. “That’s why we play these games, right?”

Even though the Mammoth are up against the proverbial ropes with just five wins to show for a tumultuous season that saw an abrupt coaching change part way through, the Rush aren’t about to count their opponents out early.

Especially with what’s on the line.

The Rush can clinch first overall and home turf advantage throughout the playoffs with a win Saturday.

But even if they lose, they would still be anointed if the Calgary Roughnecks and Rochester Knighthawks lose Saturday.

“We’ve done a pretty good job of looking ahead to the very near future, which is the game this Saturday against Colorado,” Keenan said. “Our next item on the list is to clinch the division and first overall and we can do that this weekend on our own and certainly would rather accomplish it on our own than get help.

“We’re facing a desperate team and they can be difficult games to play.”

RECORD WATCH: Each week since the mid point of the season, it seems the Rush have been knocking down record after record, making it increasingly difficult to come up with the next benchmark to gauge their success.

On the way to 13-0 this year, the Rush have also made it 13-straight road wins dating back to last season to establish a new NLL record in that department last Sunday.

They have now tied the 13-straight wins the Knighthawks strung together between the 2007 and ’08 regular seasons, but they would have to run the table across the five games left in their ’14 schedule to surpass the NLL record 17-straight wins the Buffalo Bandits combined for across the 1992-94 regular seasons.

In fact, they won 22 straight if you count playoff victories on the way to back-to-back championships in ’92 and ’93 — despite being in their first two years of existence.

COMING IN

EDM — Took two wins in a back-to-back road swing through Rochester and Toronto last weekend, in what was their first double-header of the season.

COL — Suffered a 14-12 loss at home to the Philadelphia Wings last Saturday to fall into a three-way tie for fourth place overall.

WHO TO WATCH

Chris Corbeil, D, EDM

IL Indoor’s second star of the week combined for three goals last weekend, including a pair of short-handers, to lead the league with five. His 12 goals on the season so far is also tops among defencemen.

Geoff Snider, T, COL

Enters this week’s slate of games unmatched with 160 loose balls and 235 faceoff wins.

Notables

Saturday’s game was originally scheduled for 7 p.m., but was bumped back an hour because of the Edmonton Oil Kings playoff game at Rexall Place … Edmonton is 6-0 at home as well as in their division ... Colorado has won just two of four on the road this season and are four of five against divisional opponents. … Rush D Kyle Rubisch came into the weekend with 38 forced turnovers to lead the league … Rush G Aaron Bold’s 12 victories is a league best, as is his 8.31 goals-against average.