Despite going down early, the Utah Mammoth scored three unanswered goals in the second period, propelling them to a 5-2 win over the Nashville Predators on Saturday at Bridgestone Arena.<\/p>\n
The game was originally scheduled for 2:30 p.m., but the start time was moved up to 12:20 p.m. due to inclement weather in Nashville. The unofficial attendance was around 6,000.<\/p>\n
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Steven Stamkos scored less than three minutes into the game on the power play, off a one-time feed from Roman Josi to make it 1-0. It was Stamkos’ 25th goal of the season and eighth power play goal of the year.<\/p>\n
Utah turned it on in the second period, scoring three goals over a 5:10-minute stretch. Kailer Yamamoto and Mikhail Sergachev had two points each in that stretch.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Marchessault responded later in the second period, scoring his second goal in two games to cut Utah’s lead down to one.<\/p>\n
It’s the first time the Marchessault has two goals in two games or fewer since Oct. 13, when he had two goals in a 4-1 win over the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n
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A holding-the-stick penalty on Roman Josi proved costly in the Predators’ comeback effort as Barrett Hayton scored off a rebound to restore the Utah two-goal lead.<\/p>\n
In the third period, JJ Petrka was taken down by Michael Bunting on a breakaway to the empty net. By rule, that’s a goal and secured the Utah win.<\/p>\n
The Mammoth have now won five straight and have a three-point edge in the first Wild Card spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n
Juuse Saros dropped to 20-17-3 on the year, making 25 saves on 29 shots.<\/p>\n
The Predators drop to 24-23-4 on the season and have lost three of their last four. They will face the Bruins next in Boston on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite going down early, the Utah Mammoth scored three unanswered goals in the second period, propelling them to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[3668,154,2416,530,5,1500,4464,15288,12137,1255,2409,231,5281,4,25,2410,1501,1489,2911,40467,3154],"class_list":["post-426358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nashville-predators","tag-barrett-hayton","tag-boston","tag-bridgestone-arena","tag-bruins","tag-hockey","tag-juuse-saros","tag-kailer-yamamoto","tag-marchessault","tag-michael-bunting","tag-mikhail-sergachev","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashvillepredators","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-predators","tag-roman-josi","tag-steven-stamkos","tag-the-predators","tag-unanswered-goals","tag-utah-mammoth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115952525272707686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426358","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=426358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}