{"id":318690,"date":"2025-11-30T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318690\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:04:17","slug":"holloways-lone-goal-lifts-blues-past-mammoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318690\/","title":{"rendered":"Holloway’s lone goal lifts Blues past Mammoth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karel Vejmelka<\/a> made 18 saves for the Mammoth (12-11-3), who were coming off a 4-3 loss to the Dallas Stars on Friday that began a season-long six-game road trip.<\/p>\n

“We didn\u2019t get the result we wanted,\u201d Utah coach Andre Tourigny said. \u201cI think we had a slow start, but we got a little better afterward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had too many mistakes. We shot ourselves in the foot with turnovers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to the game, the Blues held a moment of silence for Utah captain Clayton Keller<\/a>\u2019s father, Bryan, who passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Keller, who was born in nearby Chesterfield, Missouri, but was raised in Swansea, Illinois, was overcome with emotion.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst off, the coaching staff, the management has been unbelievable,\u201d Keller said. \u201cIt\u2019s beyond words.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me and my family, a big thanks to the Blues for everything they did tonight. They didn\u2019t have to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday, Dallas named Keller the first star of the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely has been a tough couple of days,\u201d Keller said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t have done it without my family and my teammates. They had my back always.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s lots of memories at this rink. I remember growing up and coming to games here, sitting on my dad\u2019s lap and my grandpa\u2019s lap. I admired those players and wanting to be out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holloway broke the ice to put the Blues ahead 1-0 at 18:10 of the second period. He took Philip Broberg<\/a>\u2019s drop pass in the left circle and beat Vejmelka high to the right corner.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s such a good skater,\u201d Holloway said of Broberg. \u201cHe\u2019s putting the League on notice with how good he can skate. He\u2019s a one-man breakout out there. [Robert Thomas<\/a>] whipped it far side, and I thought I was going to go forecheck again and I saw (No.) 6 buzzing up the ice, so I just tried to go for the drop pass and he made a great play. I just shot it on net and was lucky enough for it to go in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karel Vejmelka made 18 saves for the Mammoth (12-11-3), who were coming off a 4-3 loss to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-318690","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\/318690","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=318690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}