Karel Vejmelka made 28 saves for his second shutout of the season and the Utah Mammoth scored on their first three photographs en path to a 4-0 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday evening in Las Vegas.
Clayton Keller scored two targets, Barrett Hayton had a aim and an help and Jack McBain additionally scored for Utah (36-27-6, 78 factors), which gained its second straight sport.
It was the eighth profession shutout for Vejmelka, who acquired a little bit assist from the iron as 4 Vegas photographs caromed off the posts. It was additionally Vejmelka’s thirty first win of the season, one behind Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy (32) for the league lead.
Akira Schmid made 14 saves for Vegas (31-24-14, 76 factors), which was shut out in two consecutive video games for the primary time since March 21-22, 2022, at Minnesota and Winnipeg. Schmid changed starter Adin Hill, who was pulled after permitting three targets on three photographs.
Utah, coming in off a 6-3 victory at Dallas on Monday that snapped the Stars’ franchise record-tying 15-game level streak, scored 3 times in a 5:20 span early within the first interval en path to a 3-0 lead.
Keller began the scoring on the 2:52 mark. John Marino picked up the first help with a pleasant crossing go from the proper level to Keller reducing down the left wing. Keller then fired a wrist shot that squeezed below Hill’s proper arm.
Keller made it 2-0 a little bit over three minutes later when he roofed a rebound of a Lawson Crouse shot that bounced straight to him by the proper aspect of the crease off the top boards.
McBain scored for the second straight sport on the 8:12 mark to make it 3-0, shoveling in a crossing go from Hayton over Hill’s proper shoulder on the finish of an odd-man rush following a Vegas impartial zone turnover.
Vegas pulled Schmid for an additional attacker with 2:25 to go and, after Braeden Bowman hit the crossbar with a deflection strive, Hayton sealed the win with an empty-netter with 47.4 seconds left.
–Area Degree Media
