{"id":605028,"date":"2026-04-15T05:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605028\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T05:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:35:10","slug":"winnipeg-jets-trampled-by-playoffs-bound-mammoth-in-final-road-game-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605028\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets trampled by playoffs-bound Mammoth in final road game of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A Jets player shoots the puck on his forehand toward Utah's goalie.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776231309_365_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Jets winger Kyle Connor beats Mammoth goaltender Karel Vejmelka for his 39th goal of the season during the second period of Tuesday night&#8217;s game in Salt Lake City. (Melissa Majchrzak\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>Nick Schmaltz scored twice as the Utah Mammoth beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-3 on Tuesday night and secured the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Schmaltz scored his first goal for the Mammoth 4:54 into the second period on the power-play, assisted by Mikhail Sergachev and Dylan Guenther. He added a power-play goal 7:16 into the third, assisted by Logan Cooley and Clayton Keller.<\/p>\n<p>JJ Peterka, Alexander Kerfoot and Cooley also scored for the Mammoth. Karel Vejmelka made 21 saves in the win for the Mammoth.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Scheifele and Kyle Connor had a goal and an assist and Isak Rosen also scored for the Jets. Gabriel Vilardi added two assists, and Eric Comrie had 31 saves for the Jets, who lost a third straight.<\/p>\n<p>The Mammoth will face the winner of the Pacific Division in the first round of the playoffs, either the Vegas Golden Knights, Edmonton Oilers or Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Four Jets teammates surround Winnipeg's goaltender, who isn't wearing his helmet.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776231310_298_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Winnipeg goalie Eric Comrie makes a stop after losing his helmet in the first period of Tuesday night&#8217;s game against the Utah Mammoth in Salt Lake City. (Melissa Majchrzak\/The Associated Press)Up next<\/p>\n<p>Mammoth: Host the St. Louis Blues on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Jets: Host the San Jose Sharks on Thursday evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-605028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605028","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=605028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}