{coyotes} Kerfoot has a goal and 2 assists in Utah's 5-2 victory over the Blackhawks

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CHICAGO (AP) Alexander Kerfoot had a goal and two assists and Karel Vejmelka stopped 27 shots to help the Utah Hockey Club beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 on Sunday.

Defenseman Mikhail Sergachev had a goal and an assist. Nick DeSimone and Kailer Yamamoto each scored their first goals of the season and Logan Cooley also scored.

Joe Veleno and Ryan Donato scored for Chicago. Arvid Soderblom made 26 saves.

The Blackhawks have lost three straight and 10 of 11.

Utah: Utah ended a two-game losing streak after falling 8-0 in Tampa Bat on Thursday night and 2-1 in overtime Friday night at Florida.

Blackhawks: Former University of Minnesota teammates Oliver Moore and Sam Rinzel made their NHL debuts.

Sergachev and Kerfoot scored in a 31-second span late in the second period to give Utah a 3-2 lead. Sergachev tied it with 3:23 to go, and Kerfoot gave Utah the lead with 2:52 remaining.

Utah blocked 17 shots.

Utah hosts Calgary on Tuesday night to open a five-game homestand. The Blackhawks host Colorado on Wednesday night to end a five-game homestand.

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{coyotes} Marchand assists winner, Bennett scores twice and Panthers top Utah 2-1 in OT

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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) Brad Marchand capped his Florida debut by setting up Sam Bennett's winner with 41.1 seconds left in overtime, and the Panthers defeated the Utah Hockey Club 2-1 on Friday night.

Bennett had both goals for Florida, including one in the second with Mackie Samoskevich and Aleksander Barkov assisting. Utah tied it early in the third on Sean Durzi's third of the year.

The win pushed Florida back into first in the Atlantic Division at 44-25-3 with 91 points, one more than Toronto and two more than Tampa Bay. All three of those teams have 10 games remaining, and Florida faces those clubs three times - two with Toronto, one with the Lightning - down the stretch.

The Panthers paid tribute to Utah forward Kevin Stenlund during the first period, as has been the case with all returning players who left Florida after winning last year's Stanley Cup. He got a video and ovation during the first period, acknowledging the crowd with a wave.

Stenlund got his ring in early January when the Panthers visited Utah.

Utah: The team gave up 14 unanswered goals against Detroit, Tampa Bay and Florida - going scoreless for 158 minutes and 9 seconds before Durzi's four-on-four tally early in the third period.

Panthers: Marchand's new line - with Samoskevich and Bennett - was on the ice to start the game for Florida. Every time Marchand touched the puck, the crowd seemed to immediately increase its volume.

The Panthers staved off a power play that Utah was awarded with 3:23 left when Eetu Luostarinen was called for holding in a 1-1 game.

Utah is now 1-18-3 in games this season when it scores two goals or less. The win was a 2-0 shutout over Philadelphia earlier this month.

Both teams play again Sunday, with Utah at Chicago and the Panthers home against Montreal.

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{coyotes} Guentzel and Bjorkstrand score 2 goals each, Vasilevskiy makes 25 saves as Lighting rout Utah 8-0

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Jake Guentzel and Oliver Bjorkstrand scored two goals each, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 25 saves for his sixth shutout of the season, and the Tampa Bay Lightning routed the Utah Hockey Club 8-0 on Thursday night.

Brayden Point, Nikita Kucherov, Gage Goncalves and Victor Hedman also scored for Tampa Bay, which won its second in a row and has won five of its last seven games. Kucherov also had three assists.

It was the fourth time this year Tampa Bay has scored eight goals in a game.

Utah starting goalie Karel Vejmelka - who had started 15 straight games - had a rough night, giving up four goals on 11 shots before being lifted after Kucherov made it 4-0 midway through the second period. He was replaced by Jaxson Stauber, who gave up four goals on 10 shots.

Mikhail Sergachev spent seven seasons with the Lightning, winning two Stanley Cups. He returned Thursday night as a member of the Utah Hockey Club for the first time.

Utah has now given up 13 goals in its last two games, including a 5-1 loss to Detroit on Monday, not a good sign for a team currently out of the playoff picture.

Guentzel and Hedman got the Lightning off to a fast start. Guentzel opened the scoring at 1:30 of the first period with a backhander, and Hedman made it 2-0 at 4:20 on a snap shot.

Guentzel's second goal that made it 5-0 with 2:06 to play in the second period came on the power play and his 16 power-play goals this season leads the NHL. Point's goal was the 300th of his NHL career.

Utah plays at the Florida Panthers on Friday night. The Lightning play host to the New York Islanders on Saturday.

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{coyotes} Red Wings coast to 5-1 win over Utah, snap six-game road skid

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Alex Lyon made 16 saves in relief of injured starter Petr Mrazek, powering the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-1 victory over the Utah Hockey Club on Monday night.

Lyon took over at goalie after Mrazek exited just 1:38 into the game with an apparent lower body injury. Dylan Guenther collided with Mrazek in the net at the tail end of a breakaway shot attempt. Mrazek limped off the ice after the play and went straight to the locker room.

Elmer Soderblom, Marco Kasper, Austin Watson, Alex DeBrincat and Tyler Motte all scored to help Detroit snap a six-game skid away from home.

Guenther reached 100 career points, scoring his 26th goal of the season for Utah. Karel Vejmelka made nine stops in his career-high 14th straight start.

Utah took a 1-0 lead at the 3:46 of the first on Guenther's power-play goal. Soderblom equalized on a slap shot just 82 seconds later.

A fortunate bounce put the Red Wings ahead at the 1:34 mark of the second. Kasper snapped the puck toward Lawson Crouse and it careened off his leg and into the net.

Watson, DeBrincat and Motte scored in the third period for Detroit. It was DeBrincat's 33rd goal of the season.

Red Wings: Detroit defended the power play well, going 4 for 5 on the penalty kill.

Utah: Clayton Keller, who assisted on Guenther's goal, has an NHL best 21 power-play assists and 27 power-play points since Dec. 8.

Kasper's shot bouncing off Crouse's leg for a goal turned momentum squarely in Detroit's favor over the final two periods.

The Red Wings totaled only five shots on goal through the first two periods.

Detroit is at Colorado on Tuesday. Utah is at Tampa Bay on Thursday.

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{coyotes} Cooley and Kerfoot each score twice to lead Utah past Lightning 6-4

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Logan Cooley had two goals and an assist and Alexander Kerfoot also scored twice to lead the Utah Hockey Club to a 6-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday.

Josh Doan and Nick Schmaltz also had goals, and Karel Vejmelka made 22 saves for Utah.

Brayden Point had two goals for the Lightning, and Anthony Cirelli and Jake Guentzel also scored. Brandon Halverson made 19 stops in his first career NHL start.

Doan and Cooley - who has 21 goals this season and 41 over two NHL seasons - both scored to put Utah up 2-0 with 2:28 left in the first.

The Lightning made it 2-1 a minute later on Point's power-play goal.

Cirelli and Guentzel both scored second-period equalizers for Tampa Bay, but Utah countered with rapid go-ahead goals each time.

Kerfoot tipped in the puck 36 seconds after Cirelli evened it at the 5:22 of the second. Then, Cooley put Utah ahead again with 2:07 left in the second, tipping in his second goal 30 seconds after Guentzel's equalizer.

Schmaltz's backhander put Utah up 5-3 only 70 seconds into the third.

Kerfoot's short-handed empty netter with 55.9 seconds left restored a two-goal cushion after Point made it 5-4 earlier in the period.

Lightning: Tampa Bay had allowed 2.66 goals per game entering Saturday before surrendering six in Halverson's first start.

Utah: Vejmelka made his 13th straight start, surpassing a 12-game run by the Islanders' Ilya Sorokin for the most consecutive starts by a goaltender in the NHL this season.

Kerfoot and Cooley each generated crucial go-ahead goals following a pair of second-period equalizers from Tampa Bay.

Utah has registered a point in 12 of its last 14 home games (9-2-3).

Tampa Bay is at Vegas on Sunday. Utah hosts Detroit on Monday.

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{coyotes} Dylan Guenther puts Utah ahead to stay in 5-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Dylan Guenther scored on a rebound with 5:47 to play to put the Utah Hockey Club ahead to stay in a 5-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night.

Guenther's team-leading 25th goal of the season gave Utah a 3-2 lead before the team added a pair of empty-netters.

Mikhail Sergachev had two goals, including one of the empty-netters, and Logan Cooley also scored a goal. Karel Vejmelka stopped 25 shots.

JJ Peterka scored a goal for the Sabres in his return to the lineup after missing three games with a lower-body injury. His power-play goal came with 11 seconds left in the first period.

Ryan McLeod also scored a short-handed goal for Buffalo and James Reimer had 27 saves.

Buffalo: The Sabres are in last place in the Eastern Conference but had won three of their previous four before Thursday's loss.

Utah: The Utah Hockey Club earned a critical two points in its quest for a playoff spot. The team is in 11th place in the Western Conference with 73 points, four points behind eighth-place St. Louis, which beat Vancouver 4-3 in overtime on Thursday night.

Beck Malenstyn's goal 11 seconds into the second period that would have given Buffalo a 2-1 lead was disallowed after a video review for goaltender interference.

McLeod has seven points (two goals, five assists) in his last seven games, including one point in each of his last five contests. His current five-game point streak is tied for the longest of his career (Oct. 12 to 22, 2024).

On Saturday, the Sabres remain on the road at the Minnesota Wild while Utah plays host to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

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{coyotes} NHL launches a front office iPad app to modernize roster, contract and salary cap info for teams

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MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) — The NHL has launched a front office app that modernizes the league's roster, contract and salary cap information.

The league worked with SAP to develop an app for Apple iPads that streamlines Central Registry data, cap and long-term injury status and no-trade and no-move clauses and lays it all out for general managers and league executives to access at their fingertips for the first time. Announced Thursday, GMs have been trying it out since late December.

"Instead of traveling with a booklet of heavy — it looks like a magazine or a Bible, almost — having everything in one place on an iPad I think will just alleviate and make it easier and simpler to log on and check the status and sometimes your roster and how you can make transactions and stuff like that," Philadelphia Flyers GM Daniel Briere told The Associated Press this week.

The development comes eight years since the NHL put iPads in coaches' and players' hands on benches during games. The hope is it will be used just as frequently to figure out trades, free agent signings and other moves.

"The on-bench coaching app that we built together, that is a part of the game every single day and it's built in a robust way that it can be part of the game every single day," NHL chief operating officer Stephen McArdle said. "We've sort of done groundbreaking work on the coaching side. We've done groundbreaking work on the fan side with a lot of the statistical data that was powered many years ago by SAP when we re-did that (NHL.com stats) site, and now this is sort of the third leg of the stool with roster information."

Longtime hockey executive Don Waddell, in his first season as GM of the Columbus Blue Jackets, said it's convenient to have "something to refer to quickly where you're always asking those questions" about no-trade clauses and the like.

"And with any new app, it's only going to continue to get better, so we're excited about it," Waddell said. "But I think the features that they're offering right now is certainly something that we're all going to be able to utilize."

The initial release of the SAP-NHL Front Office App is made up of three sections:

— League view, which provides a high-level display of each team's current and projected offseason cap situation, alerts for daily transactions with custom filters and a player watch list and draft grid of future picks with details on how they changed hands and conditions on selections.

— Team view, which offers contract information for each player in the organization for the current season and the next eight.

— Player view, which includes biographical information, contract details and PDFs, game logs and transaction history.

McArdle said the idea was a result of the technology available combined with the needs expressed from organizations around the league. SAP VP of Global Sponsorships Dan Fleetwood pointed to the coaching app as the necessary first step to make this possible — and potentially speed up player movement around NHL.

"It's that type of a foundation that you need to really kind of grow and do something," Fleetwood said. "We hope that it does power more trades or give people the ability to manipulate their rosters better."

In the aftermath of the Washington Capitals buying and shuttering the popular CapFriendly site to make that their proprietary in-house data, places like PuckPedia and CapWages have emerged to fill the void for fans who at one point used CapGeek to look up or reimagine rosters. This app is for teams and teams only and expected to eventually be available on iPhone, but there is no plan to offer a version for the general public.

"We're currently focused on super-serving the clubs in the front office," McArdle said. "There is so much information in this version that we think it is most appropriate for the front offices and for the clubs. Down the road, who knows, but right now it's not our focus."

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{coyotes} Commissioner Gary Bettman says the NHL and NHLPA will begin CBA talks in early April

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MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) — NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday the league and the Players' Association will sit down to begin negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement the week of April 1.

Bettman and other league officials updated general managers on the situation at their annual spring meeting this week and got their thoughts on potential CBA changes that could be considered. Unlike some more contentious situations in previous decades that led to work stoppages, there is optimism about getting a resolution done in the coming months — well before the current agreement expires in September 2026.

NHLPA executive director Marty Walsh has said he is entering talks with a positive attitude. The working relationship between the league and union is at its highest point in recent history with business booming and revenues setting records year after year.

"I don't think on either side we're looking at fundamental issues," Bettman said. "I'm anticipating, based on everything I'm hearing from Marty, that we'll have good discussions. And I'm hoping we can do this quickly, quietly and painlessly."

Last month in Montreal at the 4 Nations Face-Off, an international tournament that showcased the NHL and NHLPA putting on an event together, Walsh pointed to hockey's immense growth as a reason for excitement.

"A lot of great things are happening," Walsh said. "There's a lot of good momentum here. The last thing you want to do is ruin the momentum."

Several weeks free of the 4 Nations glow and with the start of the playoffs and the chase for the Stanley Cup a month away from beginning, the sport's leading stakeholders are getting ready to get down to business.

"The Players' Association was doing their tour and meeting with all the clubs, but casually I think we both have the sense that we should be on the same page or close to it in terms of the things we're focused on," Bettman said.

Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said he had a list tens of pages long of suggestions and ideas from GMs and other team and league staff and doesn't know how negotiations will go until he, Bettman and the league speak with Walsh, assistant Ron Hainsey and the PA to go through the issues.

"There's a lot of things that people want," Daly said. "The question is what we're prepared to do, what they're prepared to do, and how we want to move forward. And until we sit down, there's really no way for me to handicap that."

While the league office has no appetite for adding more teams to the playoffs, one topic that could come up is expanding the regular season from 82 to 84 games and cutting down on exhibition play.

"Whether or not we want to change the preseason and the number of games in the regular season is something that we would have to discuss with the Players' Association," Bettman said, cautioning against speculation. "It's something that we should be discussing with the Players' Association and a shorter preseason, and it's something that we should discuss. But we need to take each other's temperature and decide if it's the right thing."

One situation out of their control, but very important to a cross-border league with 25 franchises in the U.S. and seven in Canada, is the ongoing trade and tariff war between the countries that threatens to upend economic climates in North America and around the world.

"If the Canadian economy is impacted to the extent that the dollar declines, the Canadian dollar, vis a vis the U.S. dollar, we do everything in U.S. dollars, so that'll have an impact potentially on our Canadian clubs and (hockey-related revenue)," Bettman said. "But we're hoping this is a moment in time and we get through this. I'm not weighing in politically."

The league and union have already agreed on and revealed salary cap figures for each of the next three seasons, with the ceiling going up by record amounts every year. That was early in U.S. President Donald Trump's return to the White House but before tariffs became a significant concern.

"If we have to make an adjustment, we will," Bettman said. "Our hope and our expectation is we're still on track."

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{coyotes} 4 Nations Face-Off success has NHL rethinking 2026 All-Star plans at the New York Islanders’ arena

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MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) — The smashing success of the 4 Nations Face-Off replacing All-Star festivities with a compelling, competitive international tournament has the NHL rethinking what to do next February before players go to the Milan Olympics.

The league announced 13 months ago that the New York Islanders would host All-Star Weekend in early February 2026, and Commissioner Gary Bettman envisioned it as the ideal jumping off point for the Olympians to board planes for Italy. What that looks like, or when, is now up in the air.

"We're reevaluating how we want to do things because I think we've raised the bar about as high as you can for an all-star game in any sport," Bettman said Wednesday at his news conference wrapping up the general managers' annual spring meeting. "And so we want to make sure whatever we do is up to the standards that we've created."

Putting aside unforeseen circumstances like the pandemic, postponing or canceling a marquee event is not something the league is known to do. Asked about a different format or even shifting the event at UBS Arena to 2027, Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly multiple times said, "Everything's on the table."

Daly added that a decision must be made "relatively soon" — at least before the playoffs begin April 19. An Islanders spokesperson deferred comment to the league office.

NHL players are participating in the Olympic men's hockey tournament for the first time since 2014, and there was not an All-Star Weekend then or in 2010 or '06. The last time the league did both was 2002.

No rule changes

NHL GMs spent a lot of time looking at video reviews, specifically coach's challenges for goaltender interference, but Bettman confirmed that no rule changes are being considered for next season.

"Three days of discussion about the game, no rule changes, which gives you a pretty good indication that the managers are certainly comfortable, if not more than pleased, with the current state of the game," Bettman said.

After trying out 10-minute 3-on-3 overtime at the 4 Nations, there's no consideration to asking the players about going to that full time.

"I'm not a fan of the extended overtime because of ice conditions and the wear and tear on the players who would be playing the additional five minutes, and I worry about that in injuries," Bettman said.

Daly confirmed the 2025-26 season will begin Oct. 7.

Playoff format

Bettman for quite some time has shut down the idea of expanding the Stanley Cup playoffs beyond the 16-team tournament that has existed for decades, even as the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball tweaked their formats. That has not changed.

"I like exactly what we have, and if you look at the races that we're having for the regular season, playoffs have started already," Bettman said. "We're in our play-in tournament, and I think it's terrific."

LA draft

The draft at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on June 27 and 28 will be the first to be decentralized, with team front offices at home or any location they choose but not in person to make picks. Teams voted 26-6 in favor of abandoning the centralized format to go to a model similar to what the NFL and NBA use, though GMs may be getting some cold feet about the decision.

"This is what the clubs said they wanted," Bettman said. "If there's a desire to go back because the clubs miss each other, miss being on the floor together, we'll put it back to a vote again. We can be flexible."

Changing landscape

Some big changes are coming to hockey's development pipeline, with the NCAA making a landmark change to its eligibility rules that allows Canadian junior players to compete at U.S. colleges, as long as they are not paid more than actual and necessary expenses as part of that participation.

Bettman said the league and union are expected to discuss what might come of that shift and how it affects the draft, entry-level contracts and other things, though he refused to address hypothetical possibilities.

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{coyotes} Hyman has 2 goals and assist, Pickard stops 29 shots as Oilers beat Utah 7-1

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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) Zach Hyman had two goals and an assist and Calvin Pickard stopped 29 shots as the Edmonton Oilers beat the Utah Hockey Club 7-1 on Tuesday night.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Connor McDavid and Mattias Ekholm each had a goal and two assists, and Vasily Podkolzin and Viktor Arvidsson also scored for the Oilers, who pulled two points behind first-place Vegas in the Pacific Division.

Sean Durzi scored for Utah. Karel Vejmelka gave up three goals on 14 shots in the first period, and Jaxson Stauber had 24 saves over the final 40 minutes.

Utah: Utah fell to 6-3-2 in their last 11 games to fall four points back of the second wild card in the Western Conference.

Oilers: Despite their high-scoring night, Leon Draisaitl was kept off the scoresheet, ending his points streak at a career-high 18 games. Draisaitl was the fourth player in Oilers franchise history player with a point streak of at least 18 games, and ended up tied for the fourth longest streak in NHL history by a player born outside of North America.

Edmonton went up by three goals with just 4 seconds left in the first period as Ekholm made a long pass out of the zone that was tipped over to McDavid by Evan Bouchard. The Oilers' captain made a pretty highlight-reel deke before sifting home his 26th past Vejmelka. McDavid extended his points streak to 12 games and became the first player in NHL history to have recorded three-point games against 32 different franchises.

In sweeping the three-game seasonal series with Utah, the Oilers have now won 10 of their last 12 home games against Western Conference opponents. Their seven remaining home games - in addition to the seven road tilts they have left - are all against West teams.

Utah hosts Buffalo on Thursday, and Oilers host Winnipeg.

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{coyotes} NHL general managers zero in on goaltender interference and other coach’s challenges

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MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) — Video review, particularly coach's challenges for goaltender interference, took center stage Monday at the NHL general managers' annual spring meeting.

GMs were shown roughly 70 clips of goals challenged this season for interference, offside or a missed stoppage, such as the puck hitting the protective netting, a hand pass or a high stick. The aim was to explain what the league standards are for goalie interference and to educate all 32 organizations on how the process works.

That is because goalie interference challenges are at their highest point in the six seasons the current system has been in place: 105 through 1,048 games, with 60 of the calls successfully overturned — also the largest percentage since 2019-20.

With a month left to go in the regular season before the playoffs begin and races for the final few spots expected to go down to the wire, all aspects of video review are under the microscope.

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