{"id":476753,"date":"2026-02-28T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/476753\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:40:12","slug":"game-recap-mammoth-5-wild-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/476753\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Recap: Mammoth 5 Wild 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooley opened the scoring with a short-handed goal at 13:23 of the first period, beating Wallstedt between the legs off a pass from McBain to give the Mammoth a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Keller scored from the slot to make it 2-0 at 4:26 of the second period after Schmaltz won a puck battle at the half-wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we&#8217;re obviously a really fast team and can make a lot of plays, but I think that&#8217;s the biggest thing for us is sticking to our identity as much as we can,\u201d Keller said. \u201cIt&#8217;s hard to do, and I think we&#8217;ve got better as the year&#8217;s gone on, and the good teams are the most consistent. Even when you don&#8217;t feel your best, you find a way. I think we&#8217;re showing steps in the right direction, and we&#8217;ve got to be more consistent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crouse went forehand-backhand in the slot off a centering pass from Keller to make it 3-0 at 7:49.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe felt that we were playing towards our identity, and we talked a lot about that the last couple days,\u201d Crouse said. \u201cIt was just a great answer from our group to go out there and play the way that we did for a full 60 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/dylan-guenther-8482699\" title=\"Dylan Guenther\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Guenther<\/a> appeared to make it 4-0 at 12:46, but Minnesota challenged the play for offside and the goal was disallowed.<\/p>\n<p>Kaprizov scored a power-play goal at 14:03 to cut it to 3-1, tapping in Boldy\u2019s pass from the opposite side at the right post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;re a great hockey team. They skate really well. They&#8217;re really skilled,\u201d Wild defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brock-faber-8482122\" title=\"Brock Faber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Faber<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cObviously, we&#8217;ve got to find a way to play them better, right? I mean, tonight we didn&#8217;t have our best, and you can talk about the back to back all you want, but we just weren&#8217;t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooley opened the scoring with a short-handed goal at 13:23 of the first period, beating Wallstedt between the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5,4,51,5290,232,5291,5289],"class_list":{"0":"post-476753","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-nhl","10":"tag-utah","11":"tag-utah-hc","12":"tag-utah-hockey-club","13":"tag-utahhc","14":"tag-utahhockeyclub"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116147363723709072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476753","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=476753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}