{"id":257916,"date":"2025-11-03T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257916\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:42:08","slug":"lightning-4-2-mammoth-nov-2-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257916\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning 4-2 Mammoth (Nov 2, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY — \u2014 Jake Guentzel<\/a> snapped a tie in the third period, and the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> beat the Utah Mammoth 4-2 on Sunday for their fifth consecutive win.<\/p>\n

Yanni Gourde<\/a>, Anthony Cirelli<\/a>, and Brandon Hagel<\/a> also scored for Tampa Bay, and Jonas Johansson<\/a> stopped 25 shots. It was Cirelli’s team-high seventh goal this season.<\/p>\n

Lawson Crouse<\/a> and Kailer Yamamoto<\/a> scored for Utah, which dropped a home game for the first time this season after opening with four straight wins in Salt Lake City. Ian Cole<\/a> had two assists, and Karel Vejmelka<\/a> made 22 saves.<\/p>\n

Utah had scored at least three goals in eight straight games.<\/p>\n

The Mammoth jumped in front 5:55 into the first when Crouse snapped the puck home on a breakaway. <\/p>\n

Tampa Bay responded with 4:43 left in the period. Gourde finished off a series of precision passes with an easy tap-in after drawing Vejmelka out of position.<\/p>\n

Cirelli made it 2-1 at 2:47 of the second, beating Vejmelka from just outside the face-off circle.<\/p>\n

After Yamamoto scored his first goal of the season 2:21 into the third, Tampa Bay countered with Guentzel\u2019s unassisted goal with 7:54 remaining. Guentzel attacked from the backside and snapped the puck in from close range.<\/p>\n

Hagel’s empty-netter with 16 seconds left capped the scoring. <\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Lightning: At Colorado on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Mammoth: At Buffalo on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY — \u2014 Jake Guentzel snapped a tie in the third period, and the Tampa Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-257916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}