{coyotes} Dylan Guenther scores his 39th goal and the Mammoth beat the Predators 4-1 for 5th straight win

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Dylan Guenther scored his 39th goal of the season, Clayton Keller had three assists to reach 56 and the Utah Mammoth beat the Nashville Predators 4-1 on Thursday night for their fifth straight victory.

Utah (42-30-6), which has won seven of 10, can clinch the franchise's first playoff berth in its second season if the Anaheim Ducks beat the San Jose Sharks later Thursday. The Mammoth sit in the first Western Conference wild card spot with 90 points and have a six-point lead over Nashville.

Kailer Yamamoto, Nick Schmaltz and captain Lawson Crouse also scored for Utah, and Karel Vejmelka stopped 29 shots.

Erik Haula had Carolina's goal and Juuse Saros made 23 saves.

Yamamoto, who only played 12 NHL games last season, scored his 12th goal to open the scoring with 5:33 to go in the first period. He deflected in a puck off a cross-crease pass from Guenther for his second goal in the last three games.

Schmaltz scored his 31st goal - and fifth in his last five games - on a power play 5:35 into the second for a 2-0 lead. Keller slid the puck across the crease to Schmaltz at the back door.

Crouse, who had 20 points all of last season, scored his 22nd goal early in the third for a 3-0 lead.

Guenther's goal made it six straight games Utah has scored at least four times.

Haula scored on the power play for Nashville midway through the third after Vejmelka stopped the first 22 shots he faced.

Nashville defenseman Roman Josi was a late scratch after participating in warmups with an upper-body injury.

Nashville, which wrapped up its final trip of the regular season, returns home for three more games and will host the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.

Utah wraps a three-game homestand on Saturday against the Carolina Hurricanes.

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{coyotes} Stanley Cup Playoffs clinching scenarios for April 9

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Here are the Stanley Cup Playoff clinching scenarios for April 9:

EASTERN CONFERENCE

The Pittsburgh Penguins will clinch a playoff berth:

* If they defeat the New Jersey Devils in any fashion (7 p.m. ET; SN-PIT, MSGSN).

OR

* If they get one point against the Devils AND the Buffalo Sabres defeat the Columbus Blue Jackets in any fashion (7 p.m. ET; FDSNOH, MSG-B, SNP, SNO).

OR

* If the Toronto Maple Leafs defeat the New York Islanders in any fashion (6:45 p.m. ET; HULU, ESPN+, TSN4) AND the Sabres defeat the Blue Jackets in regulation.

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The Boston Bruins (idle) will clinch a playoff berth:

* If the Maple Leafs defeat the Islanders in regulation AND the Philadelphia Flyers defeat the Detroit Red Wings in regulation (7 p.m. ET; FDSNDET, NBCSP+, SNE) AND the Sabres defeat the Blue Jackets in regulation.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

The Colorado Avalanche will clinch the Presidents' Trophy:

* If they defeat the Calgary Flames in any fashion (9 p.m. ET; KUSA, KTVD, ALT, SNW).

OR

* If they get one point against the Flames AND the Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Carolina Hurricanes in any fashion (8:30 p.m. ET; FDSNSO, CHSN).

OR

* If the Blackhawks defeat the Hurricanes in regulation.

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The Edmonton Oilers (idle) will clinch a playoff berth:

* If the Anaheim Ducks defeat the San Jose Sharks in any fashion (10 p.m. ET; Victory+, NBCSCA, KCOP-13, TVAS) AND the Utah Mammoth defeat the Nashville Predators in regulation (9 p.m. ET; FDSNSO, Utah16) AND with any result in the Winnipeg Jets-St. Louis Blues game (8 p.m. ET; FDSNMW, TSN3) other than a Jets regulation win.

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The Utah Mammoth will clinch a playoff berth:

* If they defeat the Predators in regulation AND the Ducks defeat the Sharks in any fashion.

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{coyotes} Masterton Trophy nominations announced

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The Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy is awarded annually by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association to the player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to ice hockey.

A player from each team is nominated by the local chapter. The list will be narrowed to three finalists and a winner named at a future date:

Full list of Masterton nominees:

Anaheim: Ville Husso, G

Boston: Charlie McAvoy, D

Buffalo: Rasmus Dahlin, D

Calgary: Devin Cooley, G

Carolina: Taylor Hall, F

Chicago: Spencer Knight, G

Colorado: Gabriel Landeskog, F

Columbus: Boone Jenner, F

Dallas: Jamie Benn, F

Detroit: Dominik Shine, F

Edmonton: Connor Ingram, G

Florida: Brad Marchand, F

Los Angeles:  Anze Kopitar, F

Minnesota: Jesper Wallstedt, G

Montreal: Mike Matheson, D

Nashville: Ozzy Wiesblatt, F

New Jersey: Brenden Dillon, D

New York Islanders: Kyle Palmieri, F

New York Rangers: Matthew Robertson, D

Ottawa: Linus Ullmark, G

Philadelphia: Garrett Wilson, F

Pittsburgh: Anthony Mantha, F

San Jose: Laurent Brossoit, G

Seattle: Jordan Eberle, F

St. Louis: Jordan Binnington, G

Tampa Bay: Darren Raddysh, D

Toronto: Oliver Ekman-Larsson, D

Utah: Clayton Keller, F

Vancouver: Kevin Lankinen, G

Vegas: Akira Schmid, G

Washington: Alex Ovechkin, F

Winnipeg: Jonathan Toews, F

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{coyotes} Keller scores on a power play 33 seconds into OT as the Mammoth beat the Oilers 6-5

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Clayton Keller scored on a power play 33 seconds into overtime to lift the Utah Mammoth to a 6-5 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.

Alexander Kerfoot forced overtime with 7:04 left in regulation after tapping in a long feed from Sean Durzi, setting the stage for Utah to claim its first win over Edmonton.

Nick Schmaltz scored twice in the second period to rally the Mammoth from a two-goal deficit. JJ Peterka and Logan Cooley also scored, and Karel Vejmelka had 21 saves.

Curtis Lazar, Connor McDavid, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Vasily Podkolzin, and Colton Dach scored for the Oilers, who lost their second straight. Tristan Jarry made 25 stops.

Utah opened the scoring in the first when Peterka converted a feed from Ian Cole at the 1:53 mark. Edmonton then scored three straight in the period. Lazar beat two defenders and slid the puck underneath Vejmelka with a well-timed backhand shot for an equalizer 11 seconds after Peterka.

McDavid put the Oilers ahead at the 8:56 mark when scored on the power play. Nugent-Hopkins extended the lead with 5:17 left in the first.

Utah scored three times in the second period with two goals by Schmaltz and another by Cooley. Podkolzin scored at 16:06 and the teams were tied at 4 after two periods.

Dach collected the puck off a blocked shot and scored a second-chance goal to give Edmonton a 5-4 lead at the 2:10 mark of the third period.

Oilers: At San Jose on Wednesday.

Mammoth: Host Nashville on Thursday.

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{coyotes} Weegar, McBain out for Mammoth

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MacKenzie Weegar and Jack McBain missed the Mammoth's 7-4 win at the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday. Weegar, who had been playing on Utah's top defense pair with Mikhail Sergachev, was a late scratch with an upper-body injury and is day to day; he has four points (one goal, three assists) and is averaging 20:53 of ice time since being acquired in a trade with the Calgary Flames on March 7. McBain left a 6-2 win at the Seattle Kraken on Thursday after blocking a shot and is week to week with a lower-body injury. McBain, who was centering the third line, has 25 points (nine goals, 16 assists) in 75 games this season. Utah hosts Edmonton on Tuesday.

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{coyotes} A playoff salary cap is coming to the NHL. GMs get a calculator to help them navigate it

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NEW YORK (AP) — Gone are the days of NHL teams stashing players on long-term injured reserve through the end of the regular season and dressing them at the start of the playoffs.

Starting this spring, the lineup for each game must fit under the salary cap, which until now did not apply in the postseason. As part of the adjustment, the league added a playoff cap calculator to the SAP-NHL Front Office App that general managers and other executives have been using for more than a year.

"Once we were going to cap-compliant rosters for playoff games, we needed something that would enable us to do it in real time," Commissioner Gary Bettman told The Associated Press. "It was an issue that a lot of people were concerned about. I'm glad we were able to solve it conceptually, and I'm glad that SAP and Central Registry were able to create a tool that made it realistic for teams to comply with this in real time."

The rule change was part of the collective bargaining agreement reached with the players union last summer. It comes after years of complaints about the LTIR loophole, which helped numerous teams load up at the trade deadline and go on deep playoff runs and even win the Stanley Cup.

Dougie Hamilton infamously said after he and Carolina got eliminated by Tampa Bay in the second round in 2021, "We lost to a team that's $18 million over the cap."

Under the terms of the CBA, teams don't have to have their entire playoff roster under the cap ceiling, but annual salaries of the skaters and goaltenders dressed for each game cannot exceed $95.5 million.

The projector planning tool, which the AP was given a demonstration of, allows users to mix and match lineups to see if they're cap-compliant. The Edmonton Oilers, for example, will need to fix Leon Draisaitl's $14 million cap hit when the star forward is back from the injury that is sidelining him for the rest of the regular season.

"You do it and it tells you if it doesn't work, and it lets you pick and choose and substitution," Bettman said. "It's absolutely ingenious."

Initially introduced for iPads, the app has been accessible on iPhones since December. The playoff cap calculator publicly unveiled by the league on Tuesday has been available since early February, just before the roster freeze prior to the Olympic break, and NHL VP of Digital Business Development Chris Foster said usage has increased significantly across all 32 teams.

"Introducing on iPhone, the playoff cap projector — those weren't in our original timelines," Foster said, acknowledging the scenario-building was first considered a trading and free agency tool before the CBA changes came about. "We quickly shifted. It's a credit to our Central Registry group. They flagged right away this is going to be needed, and we knew it was coming before the teams really knew about it, so it was their leadership that helped drive this change in the roadmap."

Daniel Beringer, SAP's Global Head of Technology and Innovation and Global Sponsorships, said the giant task of importing contract data took a lot of time putting in digital form what used to be in paper binders, but once that was completed, it is now faster to make additions on the fly.

"I would argue if the commissioner would ask for an app for his new Apple Watch, he could get that in a week or two now," Beringer said. "It's getting easier and easier to have additional functionality."

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{coyotes} Mammoth pummel Kings 6-2 to create more separation in Western Conference wild-card race

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Alexander Kerfoot and Logan Cooley scored two goals each, Mikhail Sergachev tied a franchise single-game record with four assists, and the Utah Mammoth beat the Los Angeles Kings 6-2 on Saturday night.

Nick Schmaltz and Jack McBain also scored, Karel Vejmelka made 29 saves, as the Mammoth avoided a second losing streak of at least three games in March.

Anze Kopitar and Adrian Kempe scored for the Kings, who have won one of their last six games. Darcy Kuemper allowed five goals on 16 shots before being replaced by Anton Forsberg to start the third period. Forsberg made 11 saves in relief.

The Mammoth continued their charge toward a playoff berth when Kerfoot opened the scoring 2:31 into the game, followed by two goals from Cooley late in the first period. Cooley struck on the power play to pick up his second with less than nine seconds remaining, canceling out any momentum Los Angeles had when Kopitar got them on the board two minutes earlier.

Utah is now five points ahead of Nashville for the first wild-card berth in the Western Conference, which would put them against the Pacific Division in the postseason and away from the Central Division powerhouse trio of Colorado, Dallas and Minnesota.

The Kings started a critical seven-game homestand with a chance to move into the second wild-card spot ahead of the Predators - a team they face twice next week - but instead face planted with a dismal showing.

Special teams was particularly dire for Los Angeles, giving up two goals on the penalty kill plus an even-strength tally to Kerfoot shortly after its own power play expired midway through the second period.

Mammoth: Visit Seattle on Thursday night.

Kings: Host St. Louis on Wednesday night.

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