Logan Cooley scored a career-high four goals and also had an assist to lead the Utah Mammoth to a 5-1 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday night in Salt Lake City.
It was the first four-goal game in Mammoth history and the first four-goal game in the NHL this season.
Dylan Guenther had a goal and an assist, Nate Schmidt added two assists and Karel Vejmelka made 33 saves for Utah, which won its second straight game.
Ivan Barbashev scored a goal and Carl Lindbom stopped 19 of 22 shots for Vegas, which had a six-game point streak snapped. It was just the second regulation road defeat of the season (5-2-4) for the Golden Knights.
Utah took a 1-0 lead at the 14:54 mark of the first period when Guenther took a drop pass from Cooley in the right circle on a rush and then ripped a shot into the top left corner of the net.
The Mammoth made it 2-0 just 67 seconds later when Guenther went down the right wing and slid a pass to Cooley, who redirected the puck into the left corner of the net.
Vegas, which outshot the Mammoth 16-4 in the second period, cut the lead to 2-1 when Barbashev picked up a loose puck in front of the crease and backhanded a shot under Vejmelka’s left pad at 5:24.
Cooley extended Utah’s lead to 3-1 early in the third period with a breakaway goal after a scrum in front of the Vegas net, tapping in a rebound of his own shot inside the right post.
Vegas pulled Lindbom for an extra attacker with 4:44 remaining. Cooley then completed his second hat trick of the season with an empty-netter 25 seconds later to seal the win.
Cooley added a second empty-netter with 2:17 left, a short-handed 6-on-4 score from along the boards by the Vegas blue line after Kevin Stanlund picked up a holding-the-stick penalty.
