{coyotes} Ducks beat the Mammoth 4-1 to pad their Pacific Division lead

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Alex Killorn broke a tie off a scramble at 9:09 of the second period, Lukas Dostal stopped 29 shots and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Utah Mammoth 4-1 on Friday night to pad their Pacific Division lead.

After the puck was cleared off the goal line behind goalie Vitek Vanecek, the Ducks' Sennecke ended up with it on the left side and slipped a pass to Killorn for a shot before Vanecek was set. Killorn also had two assists.

Ryan Poehling, Cutter Gauthier and Mikael Granlund also scored to help the Ducks - playing without suspended defenseman Radko Gudas - rebound from a 3-2 overtime loss to Philadelphia on Wednesday night at home. They moved three points ahead of Edmonton in the division.

Gudas served the fourth game of a five-game suspension for kneeing Auston Matthews in a loss at Toronto on March 12. Matthews tore the medial collateral ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the season.

Poehling tied it with 6:23 left in the first, beating Vanecek with a nifty move on a short-handed break. Poehling took a pass from Killorn, sped down the left side, cut right and shot against the grain to the left.

The Ducks put it away with two empty-net goals, with Gauthier scoring his 36th goal on the first.

Dylan Guenther scored his 34th goal of the season for Utah - at 1:48 of the first of the Mammoth's second shot on goal.

Utah remained six points ahead of Los Angeles for the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

The Mammoth opened a four-game homestand. They had won two straight on the road, beating Dallas 6-3 on Monday night to snap a four-game losing streak and topping Vegas 4-0 Thursday night.

Ducks: Host Buffalo on Sunday.

Mammoth: Host Los Angeles on Sunday night.

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{coyotes} Red Wings prospect Trey Augustine headlines Mike Richter Award finalists

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Two second-round NHL Draft picks are among the finalists for the Mike Richter Award as top goalie in the NCAA this season.

Michigan State's Trey Augustine (Detroit Red Wings), UMass' Michael Hrabal (Utah Mammoth) and the undrafted Josh Kotai of Augustana are the three finalists, the Hockey Commissioners Association announced Friday.

The American-born Augustine, picked 41st overall by the Red Wings in 2023, is 23-8-1 with a 2.08 goals-against average and .929 save percentage this season, earning him the Big Ten's goalie of the year award for a second straight campaign. His Spartans team is guaranteed a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, starting next week.

The Czech-born Hrabal, selected 38th overall in 2023 by what were then the Arizona Coyotes in 2023, is 19-8-1 with a 1.98 ERA and .936 save percentage this season. He also was named Hockey East's player of the year earlier this week.

UMass needs a win against Merrimack in a Hockey East semifinal on Friday to keep its NCAA tourney hopes alive.

Kotai, 23, is 20-11-4 with a 1.99 GAA and .938 save percentage this season. Augustana was eliminated from the CCHA conference championship last week, but still could get an NCAA tournament spot with some help on the out-of-town scoreboard this weekend.

The Richter winner will be announced April 10.

Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacob Fowler won the award last year with Boston College.

Previous winners include Connor Hellebuyck, Thatcher Demko and Jeremy Swayman.

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{coyotes} Mammoth sign forward Michael Carcone to two-year contract extension

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Michael Carcone is staying in Utah.

The Mammoth have signed forward Michael Carcone to a two-year contract extension with an average annual value of $1.75 million, the team announced on Friday.

Carcone has ben a depth piece for the Mammoth all season with 14 goals and 12 assists in 66 games.

The 29-year-old Ajax, Ont. native was undrafted and signed by the Vancouver Canucks in 2016. He is having a bounce-back season after only recording seven goals over 53 games in 2024-25. Carcone spent the first four years of his career with the Arizona/Utah organization.

Prior to this contract, Carcone was re-signed by the Mammoth on July 15 to a one-year deal.

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{coyotes} General managers debate allowing 19-year-olds from CHL playing in AHL

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MANALAPAN, Fla. -- The NHL general managers have spent several hours across the past two days of their meetings discussing and debating the merits of allowing 19-year-old players from the Canadian Hockey League playing in the American Hockey League.

The League is actively working with the CHL and the NHL Players' Association to draft language for a change in the NHL-CHL agreement to allow for at least one and potentially more 19-year-olds per NHL team to play for an AHL affiliate.

The change would go into effect next season.

The current NHL-CHL agreement prohibits teenagers from the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League and the Western Hockey League who have been drafted by an NHL team from playing in the AHL.

"I think for us it's just about having a little more say in the development path of your players," San Jose Sharks GM Mike Grier said. "Everyone is different. Kids are ready at different ages, some physically mature or maybe they've done all they can do at the junior level, and they need another challenge but they're not quite ready for the NHL. For us, it's about having more of a say in that development and what we think would be good for the players."

Representatives from the CHL are expected to sit with the League and general managers Wednesday, the last of three days of meetings being held at Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa. 

NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly is working with the CHL and NHLPA on the change in the agreement between the NHL and the governing body of Canada's top three major junior hockey leagues, making sure it's ready when the new Collective Bargaining Agreement takes effect before next season.

The AHL does not have a specific rule prohibiting teenagers from playing in the league, which is why the change has to be made by the NHL and CHL in conjunction with the NHLPA.

NHL senior executive vice president of hockey operations Colin Campbell said the discussions among the GMs here have extended to how many 19-year-old CHL players per NHL team would be allowed to go to the AHL and does it get limited to only first-round picks or should any player be under consideration.

Campbell said the League has been discussing this change with the CHL for the past six months.

"I don't think anything was written in stone at the time," Campbell said. "They just want the teams to have more options to do more things with their players, not just junior or NHL. If that player had had a couple of 140-point seasons and it was time for him to move on, they wanted more options, more flexibility."

Columbus Blue Jackets GM Don Waddell said he doesn't think the change would lead to a surplus of 19 year olds leaving the CHL for the AHL largely for maturity reasons.

"I looked back at my last 10 years as a GM and I found maybe one guy that I would have brought out," Waddell said. "So, I don't think it's going to be a situation just because the rule changes if it does that there's going to be a surplus of players coming out. There's a lot of 18-year-old players turning 19 that are not ready for it. 

"The American league is a good league and it's a heavy league and all that. You've got to be careful if you're putting a young kid in an American league city. Usually if you bring a young kid to your NHL team, you have him with the family of one of the players. The American league is much different because it's younger guys, but that's pretty young to put a kid on his own without a lot of direction. You have to make sure the player is physically ready but also maturity too."

There are exceptions, of course, and Colorado Avalanche GM Chris MacFarland said he thinks they might have placed forward Calum Ritchie into the AHL when he was a 19-year-old instead of him playing his fourth season with Oshawa of the OHL in 2024-25.

Ritchie was traded to the New York Islanders on March 6, 2025. He had 80 points (28 goals, 52 assists) in 50 games for Oshawa in 2023-24, the season after the Avalanche selected him with the No. 27 pick in the 2023 NHL Draft.

"It would have been nice to at least have that as a potential discussion," MacFarland said. "I get the importance of it for the major junior teams. These are good players for their organizations, but from looking at it as a possible development tool for certain types of players, I think it would be a nice thing to have in the toolbox, whether it's a player that's physically ready or he's a player like a Calum Ritchie, very skilled, just to see what it looks like for his development. You want to do what's best for the player at every stage when you've drafted him and that's the impetus of the discussion."

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{coyotes} Mammoth beat Stars 6-3, ending Dallas' franchise-record point streak at 15 games

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DALLAS (AP) Jack McBain's tie-breaking shorthanded goal early in the third period began a four-goal outburst and led the Utah Mammoth to a 6-3 win over Dallas on Monday night, ending the Dallas Stars' point streak at a franchise-record 15 games.

Clayton Keller, Kailer Yamamoto, Michael Carcone, Lawson Crouse and defenseman Nate Schmidt also scored for the Mammoth, who hold the Western Conference's first wild-card position by five points. Vitek Vanecek, making his 16th start of the season, stopped 27 shots.

Wyatt Johnston, Sam Steel and Adam Erne scored for the Stars, who lost in regulation for the first time since Jan. 22, going 14-0-1. Dallas also had a 15-game streak in its 1998-99 Stanley Cup season (12-0-3).

McBain gained possession just outside Utah's blue line following a turnover by Dallas defenseman Miro Heiskanen. Skating in alone, McBain lifted a backhander past Casey DeSmith at 4:16 of the third period for a 3-2 lead.

DeSmith made 16 saves and saw a personal four-game win streak end.

Dallas has the second-most points in the league (94) and will play its next two games, both on the road, against the teams just ahead of them (Colorado) and just behind them (Minnesota) in the Central Division.

Yamamoto added an insurance goal almost four minutes later followed by Carcone's power-play goal and Crouse's empty-netter in the final minutes.

It was McBain's seventh goal of the season, ending a 20-game goal drought that began Jan. 15.

Schmidt ended a 15-game goal drought since he had two goals and four points on Jan. 17.

It's Keller's sixth 20-goal season, fifth consecutive.

Dallas' power play, second best in the NHL, went 0 for 3 and allowed a short-handed goal, failing to score for the first time in 13 games.

Mammoth: Visit Vegas on Thursday.

Stars: Visit Colorado on Wednesday.

 

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{coyotes} Penguins rally from two-goal deficit to top Mammoth 4-3

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Noel Acciari scored the go-ahead goal at the 8:03 mark of the third period to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins past the Utah Mammoth 4-3 on Saturday night.

Acciari won a battle for the puck with Nick Schmaltz and scored on a close-range snap shot to help the Penguins complete a rally from an early two-goal deficit.

Stuart Skinner had 26 saves for Pittsburgh. Bryan Rust, Anthony Mantha and Thomas Novak also scored goals for the Penguins.

Dylan Guenther scored two unassisted goals in a 91-second span during the first period for Utah. Guenther, who leads the Mammoth with 33 goals, became only the second NHL player since the 2018-19 season to score two unassisted goals in less than two minutes.

Ian Cole completed the scoring for Utah. Karel Vejmelka made 19 stops for the Mammoth.

Guenther threaded the puck around Skinner's skate at the 5:06 mark of the first to get Utah on the board. Then he tapped the puck over the line amid traffic, scoring on a power play at the 6:37 mark of the first to put the Mammoth up 2-0.

Pittsburgh erased the deficit late in the second period. Mantha scored the Penguins' first power-play goal with 5:12 left in the second. Novak then equalized on a wrist shot with 2:34 remaining in the period.

The Penguins took their first lead at the 1:24 mark of the third when Rust snapped the puck home for a second power-play goal.

Utah equalized on Cole's 30-foot wrist shot at the 4:17 mark of the third.

Penguins: at Colorado on Monday night.

Mammoth: at Dallas on Monday night.

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{coyotes} Connor Bedard scores in OT to lift the Blackhawks past the Mammoth, 3-2

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Connor Bedard scored off a rebound off a post at 3:57 of overtime to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 3-2 victory over the Utah Mammoth on Thursday night.

Bedard, Tyler Bertuzzi and Frank Nazar each had a goal and an assist and Spencer Knight stopped 29 shots to help the Blackhawks sweep the season series in their third meeting with Utah in 12 days.

In the 3-on-3 overtime, Alex Vlasic blasted a shot off the post, Bedard controlled the rebound and snapped it into the net. The young star then pounded on the glass in celebration.

Dylan Geunther and JJ Peterka scored for Utah, and Karel Vejmelka made 20 saves. The Mammoth hold the first wild card in the Western Conference - six points ahead of San Jose.

Bertuzzi tied it at 1 on a 4-on-3 power play 2:18 into the third period. He leads the NHL with 10 road power-play goals.

Nazar gave Chicago a 2-1 lead at 9:17 to extend his points streak to a career-best five games. Peterka tied it with 6:15 remaining.

Guenther opened the scoring with his 31st at 5:47 of the second.

Chicago: Visits Vegas on Saturday night.

Utah: Hosts Pittsburgh on Saturday night.

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