{"id":446825,"date":"2026-02-05T10:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446825\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:24:47","slug":"red-wings-fall-to-mammoth-in-last-game-before-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446825\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings Fall to Mammoth In Last Game Before Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a stirring victory on Monday, and with a three-week break on the horizon, the Detroit Red Wings were looking to start their Olympic break on a hot streak.<\/p>\n<p>The Utah Mammoth thought differently and made it stand up with a 4-1 victory at the Delta Center.<\/p>\n<p>The loss dropped Detroit into a third-place tie with the Montreal Canadiens in the Eastern Conference after Montreal beat Winnipeg 5-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings were coming off a 2-0 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Monday, Colorado\u2019s first shutout loss of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Any hopes for a repeat were snuffed out early when Utah\u2019s Sean Durzi scored 57 seconds into the opening period. Nick Schmaltz made it 2-0 midway through the first period with a 5-on-3 power-play goal, notable in that the Mammoth are 30th in power-play scoring this season.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Guenther effectively put the game out of reach at the 4:41 mark of the third period with his team-leading 25th goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/gamecenter\/det-vs-uta\/2026\/02\/04\/2025020898\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Larkin<\/a> scored Detroit\u2019s only goal when John Gibson was pulled for an extra attacker late in the third period.<\/p>\n<p>Clayton Keller finished the scoring, netting an empty-net goal with 2:18 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Red Wings Takeaways<\/p>\n<p>Larkin\u2019s goal gave him 50 points on the season for the fifth year in a row . . . Detroit\u2019s Erik Gustafsson and Utah\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/detroithockeynow.com\/2026\/02\/04\/former-red-wings-player-dealing-with-mammoth-disappointment-maatta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olli Maatta<\/a> were healthy scratches . . . Utah swept the season series, winning both games by 4-1 scores. Detroit outshot Utah 40-25 . . . The Red Wings are off until the season resumes on Feb. 26 at Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Key Stat<\/p>\n<p>The Mammoth are 25-5-2 when Nick Schmaltz has recorded a point this season.<\/p>\n<p>Key Moment<\/p>\n<p>Utah seized the momentum in front of their home crowd on Durzi\u2019s goal less than a minute into the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a stirring victory on Monday, and with a three-week break on the horizon, the Detroit Red Wings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,1511,93,5137,595,58,5,12641,4,3358,5138,3154],"class_list":{"0":"post-446825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-hockey-now","10":"tag-detroit-red-wings","11":"tag-detroitredwings","12":"tag-dylan-larkin","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-john-gibson","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-red-wings","18":"tag-redwings","19":"tag-utah-mammoth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116017543500839227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446825","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=446825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}