SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nick Schmaltz scored twice and assisted on another goal to lead the Utah Mammoth to a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Friday night. Schmaltz now has 43 points in 40 career games against St. Louis. Lawson Crouse and Sean Durzi also scored goals to help Utah win its third straight game. Karel Vejmelka made 26 saves. Oskar Sundqvist and Pavel Buchnevich scored for the Blues while Joel Hofer made 19 stops. St. Louis dropped its fourth straight road game. Utah struck first with 4:50 left in the first period when Schmaltz threaded a close-range puck between two defenders. St. Louis and Utah combined to score four goals in the second period. Crouse briefly gave the Mammoth a 2-0 lead at the 7:45 of the second after snapping the puck past Hofer’s glove. The Blues pulled one back only 10 seconds later. Nathan Walker funneled the puck to Sundqvist after winning a faceoff and he caught Vejmelka flat-footed with a long-distance blast. Durzi restored Utah’s two-goal advantage with 8:17 left in the second, one-timing a pass from Schmaltz. St. Louis countered again with 3:33 remaining in the period, cutting the deficit to 3-2

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Jesper Bratt had a goal and an assist to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 4-1 win over the Utah Mammoth on Saturday. Timo Meier, Nico Hischier and Dougie Hamilton scored for New Jersey. Brett Pesce finished with two assists and five blocked shots. New Jersey’s Jack Hughes assisted on two goals. It was his first two-point game since returning five games ago after being sidelined for 18 contests due to a hand injury. Michael Carcone scored in the third period for Utah (19-20-3). Barrett Hayton and Sean Durzi assisted as the Mammoth lost for the fourth time in six games. The Devils (22-17-2) won for the second time in five games. New Jersey has an 11-7-2 record at home in the Prudential Center, with nine of those victories coming early in the season. New Jersey entered the game ranked last last among the 16 teams in the Eastern Conference in goals scored. Bratt and Meier scored in the first period to give New Jersey an early lead. Pesce assisted on both goals. Meier scored his first goal since December 9th. He had missed five games for a family matter from Dec. 11-19. The Devils

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

DENVER (AP) — Scott Wedgewood made 32 saves for his second shutout of the season, and the NHL-best Colorado Avalanche beat the Utah Mammoth 1-0 on Tuesday night. Wedgewood’s 10th career shutout helped extend Colorado’s home winning streak to 13 games. The Avalanche have won six in a row overall and eight of nine heading into the holiday break. Colorado’s 61 points are the second most in the NHL after 36 games behind the 1929-30 Boston Bruins, who had 63 points at that stage. Samuel Girard scored the lone goal for the Avalanche (27-2-7), who remain unbeaten in regulation at home (15-0-2). They have not lost on home ice since Carolina’s 5-4 shootout win on Oct. 23. Vitek Vanecek stopped 25 shots for Utah, which had won two of three. The Mammoth’s No. 1 goaltender, Karel Vejmelka, was a late scratch with an upper-body injury. Utah signed Colten McIntyre to an amateur-tryout agreement to serve as Vanecek’s backup for the night. Vanecek had a strong performance against the NHL’s top-scoring team. The Avalanche averaged 4.6 goals in the five games heading into Tuesday night. Girard stole the puck from Clayton Keller in the neutral zone, skated in ahead of Keller