Nick Schmaltz scores NHL-best 5th goal and Mammoth beat Devils 5-3
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Nick Schmaltz scored his NHL-best fifth goal of the season, and the Utah Mammoth relied on their proficient power play to beat the New Jersey Devils 5-3 on Tuesday night.
Clayton Keller, MacKenzie Weegar, Lawson Crouse and Vincent Trocheck also scored for the Mammoth, and Mikhail Sergachev had three assists to surpass 300 for his career before leaving the game when he took a puck to the back of the helmet late in the second period.
Utah went 2 for 4 on the power play and has scored on 8 of 13 opportunities this season with the man advantage, including Keller’s goal in the first period and Schmaltz’s go-ahead tally midway through the second that made it 3-2.
Luke Evangelista scored twice for New Jersey and Jesper Boqvist had the other goal.
The Mammoth beat the Devils for the first time, having gone 0-4 in the franchise’s previous two seasons.
Karel Vejmelka stopped 30 shots for Utah, and New Jersey’s Jake Allen made 26 saves.
Sergachev reached 300 assists with his second of the game, on Weegar’s goal early in the second period. The 28-year-old Russian defenseman reached the milestone in his 634th NHL game.
He also assisted on Schmaltz’s goal for his seventh career four-assist game and fourth in his last 32 contests.
Schmaltz had two assists, the second on Trocheck’s goal that made it 5-3 with 3:08 remaining.
New Jersey defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler left with an injury early in the third period.
Up next
Mammoth: At Boston on Thursday.
Devils: Host Vancouver on Saturday.
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