{"id":459797,"date":"2026-02-05T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459797\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:38:09","slug":"keller-schmaltz-propel-mammoth-to-win-against-red-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459797\/","title":{"rendered":"Keller, Schmaltz propel Mammoth to win against Red Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/dylan-larkin-8477946\" title=\"Dylan Larkin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Larkin<\/a> scored, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/john-gibson-8476434\" title=\"John Gibson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Gibson<\/a> made 21 saves for the Red Wings (33-19-6), who have lost four of five (1-3-1).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a disappointing start,\u201d Detroit coach Todd McLellan said. \u201cI thought we created enough opportunities to get ourselves back in the game. We couldn&#8217;t beat a real hot goaltender, and that was probably the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durzi gave Utah a 1-0 lead 57 seconds into the first period, picking up a loose puck on the end boards and beating Gibson blocker side.<\/p>\n<p>Schmaltz scored on a 5-on-3 power play to extend it to 2-0 at 8:11, beating Gibson glove side with a wrist shot.<\/p>\n<p>Guenther pushed it to 3-0 at 4:40 of the third period, slotting the puck between the legs of Gibson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played well from the start. PK was really good, [Vejmelka] obviously really good, but just the team effort,\u201d Guenther said. \u201cI think it&#8217;s big. Everybody knows that [the standings are] really tight\u2026 it&#8217;s going to be close, and every point matters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Larkin scored, and John Gibson made 21 saves for the Red Wings (33-19-6), who have lost four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-459797","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\/459797","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=459797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}