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Utah tops Winnipeg 3-2, continues remarkable 8-2-0 start in just second season

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Utah tops Winnipeg 3-2, continues remarkable 8-2-0 start in just second season
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Utah tops Winnipeg 3-2, continues remarkable 8-2-0 start in just second season

2025-10-27 13:31 Last Updated At:13:40

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Dylan Guenther broke a tie with 5:36 left and the Utah Mammoth won their seventh straight game, beating the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 on Sunday night.

Coming off a 6-2 victory in Minnesota on Saturday night, the Mammoth improved to 8-2-0.

Logan Cooley and JJ Peterka set up the winning hoal, with Peterka stealing the puck from defenseman Haydn Fleury.

Michael Carcone and Mikhail Sergachev also scored for Utah. Vitek Vanecek made 28 saves.

Mark Scheifele and Dylan DeMelo scored for Winnipeg, and Connor Hellebuyck stopped 29 shots.

Winnipeg tied it at 2 on the power play in the second period. With John Marino off for interference, Scheifele took a pass from Josh Morrissey and whipped a shot past Vanecek.

The Mammoth scored twice in a 1:04 span in the second to take a 2-1 lead. Sergachev snapped a shot past Hellebuyck with 9:57 left, and Carcone finished a 2-on-1 with Kailer Yamamoto with 8:53 to go.

DEVILS 4, AVALANCHE 3, OT

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Jack Hughes scored at 1:53 of overtime and Jake Allen made 21 saves and New Jersey slipped past Colorado for its eighth straight win.

Hughes scored his second goal of the game and team-best eighth of the season to send New Jersey on its longest winning streak since it earned 13 straight victories early in the 2022-23 season.

Defenseman Simon Nemec had three assists for the Devils, who have won eight straight since a season-opening loss at Carolina. Allen improved to 5-0-0. He has been starting since Jacob Markstrom was injured late in a win Columbus on Oct. 13.

Connor Brown put New Jersey ahead at 12:51 of the second, but Colorado’s Brock Nelson tied the game at 13:55 of the third with his second goal of the season.

LIGHTNING 2, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 1, OT

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nikita Kucherov scored 33 seconds into overtime and Tampa Bay beat Vegas.

Brandon Hagel also scored for the Lightning, winners of two straight after starting the season 1-4-2. Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 18 saves to get his first win of the season in his sixth start.

William Karlsson scored for Vegas, which dropped both games on a Florida swing. Rookie goalie Carl Lindbom stopped 26 shots in his first NHL start.

Kucherov finished off a 2-on-1 rush with Hagel on the opening shift of overtime after Hagel intercepted the puck in the defensive zone to set up the odd-man chance.

SHARKS 6, WILD 5, OT

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Macklin Celebrini scored an unassisted goal at 3:47 of overtime to give San Jose a victory over Minnesota.

Celebrini, who also had two assists, gathered a loose puck in the San Jose zone after Yaroslav Askarov made a save on Brock Faber, raced in alone and beat Jesper Wallstedt.

William Eklund scored twice and Michael Misa, Ryan Reaves and Tyler Toffoli also connected for the Sharks. Askarov made 28 saves.

Joel Eriksson Ek scored with 2:18 left in regulation to cap a three-goal third period for Minnesota. Kirill Kaprizov had his third assist of the game on the goal, giving him 400 career points.

Toffoli gave the Sharks a 5-3 lead with a power-play goal 7:52 into the third period, but Zeev Buium scored 36 seconds later when his shot deflected off San Jose’s Ty Dellandrea to get the Wild within one.

FLAMES 5, RANGERS 1

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Blake Coleman scored twice and Calgary beat New York to snap an eight-game skid.

Nazem Kadri, Kevin Bahl and Yegor Sharangovich also scored for the Flames, who scored more than three goals for the first time this season and got their second win in 10 games (2-7-1). Mikael Backlund had two assists and Dustin Wolf made 29 saves.

Noah Laba scoredl for New York and Igor Shesterkin stopped 25 shots.

In a showdown between the NHL’s two lowest scoring teams — Calgary, last at 1.67 goals per game coming in — needed just 1:42 to open the scoring with Kadri ripping his second of the season into the top corner.

KINGS 3, BLACKHAWKS 1

CHICAGO (AP) — Alex Laferriere and Kevin Fiala scored in a 1:25 span early in the second period, Anton Forsberg stopped 22 shots and Los Angeles beat Chicago.

Coming off a 5-4 shootout loss Saturday night in Nashville, the Kings ended a string of four extra-time games to improve to 4-3-3. They have a game left on a five-game trip that opened with overtime victories in St. Louis and Dallas.

Laferriere tied it at 1 at 3:29 of the second with a wrist shot on a 2-on-1 break, and Fiala scored at 4:54 on a wraparound off a breakaway. Joel Armia added a short-handed, empty-netter with 1:08 left in the game.

STARS 3, PREDATORS 2

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Mikko Rantanen scored the tiebreaking goal midway through the third period, and Dallas rallied to beat Nashville.

Oskar Bäck and Wyatt Johnston also scored and Jason Robertson had two assists for Dallas, which won its second straight after losing four in a row (0-3-1). Casey DeSmith had 23 saves.

Jonathan Marchessault and Spencer Stastney scored for Nashville, which had won two in a row. Justus Annunen finished with 24 saves.

With a Stars power play winding down, Robertson passed it to Mavrik Bourque on the left side, and Bourque passed it across the front of the goal to Rantanen for the tap in with 9:16 remaining.

CANUCKS 4, OILERS 3, OT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Kiefer Sherwood scored his second goal of the game 1:42 into overtime and Vancouver beat Edmonton.

Brock Boeser had a goal and two assists, and Elias Pettersson also scored and Connor Garland had two assists for the Canucks, who snapped a three-game losing streak. Thatcher Demko stopped 26 shots.

Leon Draisaitl scored twice and Jack Roslovic had a goal and an assist for Edmonton. Calvin Pickard finished with 23 saves.

In the extra period, Sherwood deflected Boeser’s pass past Pickard for his sixth of the season to give the Canucks the win.

Utah Mammoth goaltender Vitek Vanecek (41) makes a save against Winnipeg Jets' Gabriel Vilardi (13) during the first period of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Utah Mammoth goaltender Vitek Vanecek (41) makes a save against Winnipeg Jets' Gabriel Vilardi (13) during the first period of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

AL HENAKIYAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Ricky Brabec deliberately gave up his motorbike lead over Luciano Benavides in the Dakar Rally while Nasser Al-Attiyah was happy to cruise through another day closer to his sixth car title on Thursday.

Al-Attiyah started 346-kilometer stage 11 between Bisha north to Al Henakiyah with a 12-minute overall lead and let it drop to less than nine minutes over new second-placed driver Nani Roma in a Ford.

Al-Attiyah was content to let Dacia teammate Sébastien Loeb catch up and pass him to have a teammate nearby for any help and to minimize errors on the mazy, dirt track. Al-Attiyah was 17th, nearly 13 minutes behind stage winner Mattias Ekström, and said he needed to execute the same plan on Friday's last effective racing stage before the end on Saturday.

“If we lose two, three, four minutes no problem,” Al-Attiyah said. “We just need to finish this Dakar in first place.”

Honda cooked up a strategy in the Saudi desert for Adrien van Beveren to open the way and let Brabec catch up after the 190-kilometer pit stop and pick up time bonuses.

Brabec boosted his overall lead from 56 seconds to nearly four minutes just 25 kilometers from the finish. He was also within a minute of the stage lead but he slowed down so KTM rival Benavides was the new overall leader, but only by 23 seconds.

Brabec got his his wish to start Friday's stage 12 six minutes behind Benavides, so he can eye him. They head west to the rally starting point of Yanbu on the Red Sea coast on 311 kilometers of gravel, some river beds with a finish in the dunes.

“A little bit of strategy today and hopefully it pays off tomorrow,” Brabec said. "I feel like its going to be a good day. We’re going back into the rocks so it will be a little bit better for us.”

Brabec is counting on his experience of winning the Dakar in 2020 and 2024 to trump Benavides, who has a best placing of fourth last year.

“I've been in this situation before,” Brabec said. “For the whole two weeks I've been just trying to stay relax, stay comfortable and just be confident, so two days more. I'm gonna do the same thing tomorrow that I've been doing every day; ride dirt bikes and have fun.”

Van Beveren helped Brabec with navigation while fighting with another teammate, Skyler Howes, the entire day for the stage win.

Howes prevailed by 21 seconds for his first career major stage in his eighth Dakar. He was third in 2023 and sixth last year. He's running fifth, 34 minutes off the pace.

Benavides was fourth in the stage and believed the race will be decided on the final 105-kilometer sprint on Saturday.

“I played no strategy like Ricky. I don't care,” Benavides said. “I'm doing what I can to control what I can control.”

Ekström won his third car stage of this Dakar, a special so fast that 12 other drivers were within 10 minutes.

Ford achieved another 1-2-3 stage. Romain Dumas, a three-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours, was a career-best second just over a minute back and Carlos Sainz was third.

Only Toyota's Henk Lategan beat Ekström to a checkpoint but Lategan's podium hopes were wrecked after 140 kilometers when a bearing broke on his rear left wheel. Lategan was second last year and second overall overnight but he plunged out of the top 15, at least.

Loeb moved up to third overall, 10 minutes behind Roma and three minutes ahead of Ekström.

AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing

Rider Daniel Sanders competes during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Rider Daniel Sanders competes during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Driver Nasser Al-Attiyah and co-driver Fabian Lurquin compete during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Driver Nasser Al-Attiyah and co-driver Fabian Lurquin compete during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Rider Skyler Howes competes during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Rider Skyler Howes competes during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Driver Henk Lategan, left, and co-driver Brett Cummings repair their car during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Driver Henk Lategan, left, and co-driver Brett Cummings repair their car during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Driver Nani Roma and co-driver Alex Haro compete during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Driver Nani Roma and co-driver Alex Haro compete during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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