NEW YORK (AP) — Dylan Guenther had his first career hat trick and added an assist and the Utah Mammoth topped the New York Islanders 7-2 on Thursday. Nick Schmaltz scored twice and added an assist, Clayton Keller and Mikhail Sergachev each had a goal and two assists, while Lawson Crouse and Barrett Hayton each had two assists. Karel Vejmelka returned from a two-game absence and finished with 20 saves as the Mammoth snapped a two-game skid. Cal Ritchie and Matthew Schaefer scored for New York, and Max Shabanov had two assists. David Rittich made nine saves on 14 shots, but was replaced by Marcus Hogberg 5:41 into the third period. Guenther scored his second goal of the game when he buried a backhand feed from Crouse to give Utah a 2-1 lead midway through the second period. He also opened the scoring just 36 seconds into the middle period. The Islanders briefly tied it 1-1 early in the second period when Ritchie fired a wrist shot over the glove of Vejmelka. Schmaltz beat Rittich with less than four minutes remaining in the second period to extend Utah’s lead to two goals. Mammoth forward Alex Kerfoot took a four-minute high-sticking

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Steve Stamkos scored two goals less than two minutes apart in the third period to rally the Nashville Predators to a 4-3 victory over the Utah Mammoth on Monday night. Stamkos scored a power-play goal with 8:21 to play to tie the game at 3, then scored the winner with 6:43 left. Ryan O’Reilly assisted on both goals. Roman Josi and Luke Evangelista also scored to help Nashville secure its fourth win in five games. Juuse Saros made 28 stops for the Predators. JJ Peterka, Mikhail Sergachev, and Dylan Guenther scored for Utah, which dropped its second straight game. Vitek Vanecek made 22 saves. Peterka scored his 15th goal of the season on a power play to put Utah on the board at the 5:48 of the first. Josi leveled the score for Nashville four minutes later, snapping the puck home from long distance. Utah regained a 2-1 lead on Sergachev’s goal at the 3:41 of the second. He blasted the puck down the middle, near the blue line, and threaded the shot past multiple defenders. Evangelista answered at the 7:51 mark of the second. He collected a puck that bounced off Vanecek’s glove and