Wyatt Johnston and Thomas Harley scored, and Jamie Benn had two assists for the Stars (32-14-9), who have won four in a row. Casey DeSmith made 12 saves.<\/p>\n
Kailer Yamamoto scored twice for the second straight game, and JJ Peterka had two assists for the Mammoth (28-23-4), who have lost two straight and three of their past four games. Karel Vejmelka made 28 saves.<\/p>\n
Harley opened the scoring while on the power play at 2:11 of the first period. Mavrik Bourque sent a wrist shot on net that hit off the left post and Harley put the rebound in past Vejmelka’s right pad from the slot.<\/p>\n
Johnston extended the lead to 2-0 with a power-play goal at 7:42 when he set up in front and redirected Mikko Rantanen’s one-timer from the blue line.<\/p>\n
Yamamoto cut the deficit to 2-1 at 10:23. Peterka rushed into the offensive zone down the left boards and fed a pass to Yamamoto, who sent a low wrist shot past DeSmith’s right skate from slot. Dallas challenged for goaltender interference, but the goal was upheld after video review. Peterka’s assist was his 100th in the NHL.<\/p>\n
Duchene pushed the lead to 3-1 at 16:37 with a snap shot from the high slot that caught a piece of Vejmelka’s glove.<\/p>\n
Yamamoto brought Utah to within 3-2 at 6:41 of the third period when his shot from the right circle fluttered past DeSmith on the glove side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wyatt Johnston and Thomas Harley scored, and Jamie Benn had two assists for the Stars (32-14-9), who have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-451067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451067","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=451067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}