{"id":397056,"date":"2026-01-08T06:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397056\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:27:11","slug":"mammoth-beat-senators-3-1-hours-after-nhl-awards-utah-2027-winter-classic-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397056\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth beat Senators 3-1 hours after NHL awards Utah 2027 Winter Classic | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Lawson Crouse and John Marino scored in a 3:21 span in the first period, Karel Vejmelka made 33 saves and the Utah Mammoth beat the Ottawa Senators 3-1 on Wednesday night to cap a big day for the franchise.<\/p>\n

The Mammoth won hours after the NHL announced the team will host the 2027 Winter Classic<\/a> at the University of Utah’s football stadium.<\/p>\n

Clayton Keller assisted on the first-period goals, and Daniil But also scored. The Mammoth opened a seven-game homestand, rebounding from a 3-2 overtime loss to the New York Rangers on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Ridly Greig scored for Ottawa, and Leevi Merilainen stopped 18 shots. Greig has scored in all four games he has played against Utah.<\/p>\n

Crouse opened the scoring<\/a> from the slot at 3:59, and Marino scored<\/a> off a rebound at 7:20. Greig scored<\/a> through a crowd in front for Ottawa with 2:19 left in the opening period.<\/p>\n

But made it 3-1<\/a> at 5:41 of the third on a wild scramble in front. The goal survived a video review for goalie interference.<\/p>\n

Ottawa has lost two in a row. The Senators had won two straight before a 5-3 home loss to Detroit on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Senators: At Colorado on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Mammoth: Host St. Louis on Friday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n

The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Lawson Crouse and John Marino scored in a 3:21 span in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5,6,1352,49157,285,1355,4,13077,1354,1834,1361,24377,43,1362,1353,1356,51,5290,232,5291,5289],"class_list":{"0":"post-397056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-hockey-club","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-ice-hockey","10":"tag-ice-hockey-leagues","11":"tag-leevi-merilinen","12":"tag-national-hockey-league","13":"tag-national-hockey-league-teams","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-winter-classic","16":"tag-seasons-in-american-ice-hockey","17":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","18":"tag-seasons-in-canadian-ice-hockey","19":"tag-seasons-in-ice-hockey","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-organizations","22":"tag-top-level-sports-leagues","23":"tag-top-tier-ice-hockey-leagues","24":"tag-utah","25":"tag-utah-hc","26":"tag-utah-hockey-club","27":"tag-utahhc","28":"tag-utahhockeyclub"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115858063095453403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}