The game on the ice was a back-and-forth, tight battle between two Central Division teams. After the Mammoth jumped out to a 2-0 lead with goals from Logan Cooley and Kevin Rooney in the first period, the Stars pushed back with three unanswered goals.<\/p>\n
Dallas scored two goals in 58 seconds to take a 3-2 lead in the middle frame. Six minutes later, Jack McBain tied the game, 3-3, with his second of the season. However, with a 5-on-3 advantage in the final two minutes of the second period, Dallas scored its second power play goal of the night and took a 4-3 lead. Both teams battled in the third, and Utah pushed until the final seconds looking for the equalizer. However, the Mammoth came up short and fell 4-3.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we played, 5-on-5, a good game,\u201d Tourigny said. \u201cGive credit to Dallas, they\u2019re a really good team. They\u2019re another Stanley Cup contender, but their power play was really clutch. Obviously, 5-on-3 made a difference. But I think 5-on-5 we worked really hard. I didn\u2019t like some of our turnovers, but the rest, I think we played well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Utah will travel to St. Louis, Keller\u2019s hometown, and face the Blues Saturday night to wrap a back-to-back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe emotions are still going to be running,\u201d Crouse shared. \u201cIt\u2019s (Keller\u2019s) hometown and we can use that energy and lift our group up. It\u2019s a very sad time for everyone but we just got to do what we can here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additional Notes from Tonight<\/p>\n
Logan Cooley (1g) has now extended his current point streak (11\/24-11\/28: 5g, 2a in 3 GP) and road point streak (11\/9-11\/28: 2g, 2a in 4 GP). He has also scored Utah’s three fastest game-opening goals in 2025-26, with tallies at 0:56 at MIN (10\/25) and 2:21 at NSH (10\/11) (per Mammoth PR).
\nWith his 33rd career NHL goal, Kevin Rooney became the fifth Utah player to score in his team debut and first to accomplish the feat since Utah’s inaugural game. Rooney has scored five goals in eight AHL games this season, including two in his most recent contest on Wednesday (per Mammoth PR).<\/p>\n
Upcoming Schedule<\/p>\n
Nov. 29: UTA at STL
\nDec. 1: UTA at SJS
\nDec. 3: UTA at ANA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The game on the ice was a back-and-forth, tight battle between two Central Division teams. After the Mammoth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-316182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}