SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Kirill Kaprizov scored his NHL-leading 14th goal of the season and added an assist, Jesper Wallstedt stopped 26 of the 27 shots he faced, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Utah Mammoth 3-1 on Tuesday night.
Joel Eriksson Ek and Maxim Shabanov also had goals while Quinn Hughes had two assists for the Wild, who have won three straight and went 3-1-1 on a five-game road trip.
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Utah Mammoth center Barrett Hayton (27) shoots the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
Minnesota Wild center Tyler Pitlick (19) slides to block the shot of Utah Mammoth defenseman Andrew Peeke (20) during the third period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
Utah Mammoth center Barrett Hayton (27) and Minnesota Wild center Yakov Trenin (13) battle for the loose puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
Minnesota Wild left wing Kirill Kaprizov (97) looks to pass during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Utah Mammoth, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
Minnesota Wild goaltender Jesper Wallstedt (30) makes the behind the back save on a shot from Utah Mammoth center Barrett Hayton (27) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
Utah's Logan Cooley scored with 1:21 to play to spoil Wallstedt's shutout bid.
Kaprizov scored on the power-play just 48 seconds into the second period to give the Wild a 2-0 lead. He has multiple points in three consecutive games and has scored a goal in eight of his last nine games.
Kaprizov is also tied with Alexander Ovechkin for the fifth-most goals scored in October in NHL history.
Eriksson Ek also scored on the power play with less than five minutes to play in the first period and has eight points (3 goals, 5 assists) in his last seven games.
Karel Vejmelka made 27 stops for the Mammoth, who have lost three of their last five games.
Wild: Return home to face the New York Islanders on Thursday night.
Mammoth: Open a six-game road trip at Pittsburgh on Thursday night.
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Utah Mammoth center Barrett Hayton (27) shoots the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
Minnesota Wild center Tyler Pitlick (19) slides to block the shot of Utah Mammoth defenseman Andrew Peeke (20) during the third period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
Utah Mammoth center Barrett Hayton (27) and Minnesota Wild center Yakov Trenin (13) battle for the loose puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
Minnesota Wild left wing Kirill Kaprizov (97) looks to pass during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Utah Mammoth, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
Minnesota Wild goaltender Jesper Wallstedt (30) makes the behind the back save on a shot from Utah Mammoth center Barrett Hayton (27) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is condemning the impeachment effort against him as “a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment.”
Hegseth made the comments at the beginning of a morning press conference Tuesday at the Pentagon. It was his first news conference from the Pentagon in six months and comes just a day after Rep. Thomas Massie launched an effort to impeach him over his handling of the unpopular war against Iran and other actions. Hegseth said Massie’s concerns are not impeachable, calling them “policy disagreements, not high crimes, not misdemeanors, not treason, not bribery, not the kinds of offenses the founders intended when they wrote the impeachment clause.” He continued: “The proper remedy for a policy disagreement, it’s legislation, it’s debate, it’s the next presidential election.”
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to give his first news conference from the Pentagon in six months on Tuesday, just a day after a Republican lawmaker launched an effort to impeach him over his handling of the unpopular war against Iran and other actions.
The briefing will be Hegseth's first since May even as the U.S. military has kept up intermittent operations against Iran as well as fatal strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in Latin America.
Hegseth, who has said the news conference would focus on the impeachment threat, is gearing up for a fight, having launched a social media blitz and saying he is ready to defend his and President Donald Trump's actions from “politically motivated people.”
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who lost his primary to a Trump-backed opponent, filed the impeachment resolution in the House on Monday. It sets the stage for a dramatic vote on whether to remove a prominent Trump administration figure following sweeping losses for Republicans in last week's midterm elections that many at least partly blamed on the Iran conflict and its economic impact.
The resolution largely focuses on the war in Iran but also includes references to Hegseth’s role in military actions in Yemen against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and Venezuela. Massie said Hegseth’s actions amount to “high crimes and misdemeanors” and his leadership at the Pentagon “warrants impeachment.”
A vote in the House could come by midweek, putting pressure on Republicans — many of whom blamed their election wipeout on the Iran war — but next steps are highly uncertain.
Trump has backed Hegseth, pointing to the raid to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January as well as military operations against Iran that he asserts have “obliterated” its navy and air force.
Iran, however, has been able to keep striking U.S. military bases in the Middle East and has disrupted shipping in the Strait of Hormuz during the course of the more than 8-month-old conflict, driving up global oil prices. Trump told reporters Monday that the Iran war “militarily is effectively over" and repeated his often-made claim that Iran “would love to make a deal.”
Hegseth also has been defending his stewardship of the U.S. military.
“There’s a lot of politically motivated people who may have substantial policy disagreements, but their disagreements are with success,” he told reporters Monday after a speech at the Naval War College in Rhode Island. He added that “if we want to litigate” the military actions that the Trump administration has taken, “I’m happy to do it all day long.”
He also released a video on social media last week that argued impeachment would be “all about the politics of personal destruction” and that “won’t work with me. You can rest assured of that.”
Afterward, scores of Pentagon political appointees posted images of Hegseth emblazoned with the words, “Stand. Fight. Defend the Republic.”
Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s top spokesman, released a statement saying that “despite threats of sham witch hunts from Democrats,” Hegseth is “100% committed to leading the Department until the end of President Trump’s term in office.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
FILE - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at an event for Anduril Industries, Inc., at Sparrows Point Shipyard, Oct. 6, 2026, in Sparrows Point, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
FILE - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth waits to welcome Britain's Defense Secretary Wes Streeting to the Pentagon during an arrival ceremony, Thursday, Oct 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
