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Utah Hockey Club builds 4-0 and cruises to win over Jets

Connor Ingram made 23 saves and tough defence carried the Utah Hockey Club in a 5-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday night.

Utah allowed just one shot on goal over the first 10 minutes of the game and kept Winnipeg off the scoreboard until almost midway through the third period.

Utah’s Olli Maatta scored the game’s first goal — and his first for the team, which he joined in October after a trade with Detroit — with four minutes to go in the second period.

Logan Cooley, Barrett Hayton, Matias Maccelli and Clayton Keller also scored to help Utah win its second consecutive home game. Hayton, Josh Doan and Nick Schmaltz each had two assists.

Connor Hellebuyck stopped 23 shots for Winnipeg. Nino Niederreiter and Dylan DeMelo scored in the third period as the Jets avoided their second shutout loss of the season.

A hockey goalie makes a stop as the puck hangs in the air above his blocker
Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck blocks a shot by Utah’s Jack McBain during the third period. (Melissa Majchrzak/The Associated Press)

Keller headed to the dressing room a minute into the second after a shot from teammate Michael Kesselring deflected high and struck him in the face. Keller returned, with swelling and a cut above his eye, with 4:40 left in the period.

He helped set up Maatta’s drive 40 seconds later. Cooley extended the lead on a breakaway with 17.9 seconds remaining in the second.

Hayton and Maccelli each scored early in the third to make it 4-0 before Niederreiter and DeMelo scored 3:16 apart to cut the deficit in half with 8:12 left.

Keller capped the scoring with an empty-netter with 2:05 remaining.

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