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Ducks take down Mammoth to pad Pacific Division lead

March 21, 2026

SALT LAKE CITY — Alex Killorn broke a tie off a scramble at 9:09 of the second period, Lukas Dostal stopped 29 shots and the Ducks beat the Utah Mammoth, 4-1, on Friday night to pad their Pacific Division lead.

After the puck was cleared off the goal line behind goalie Vitek Vanecek, the Ducks’ Beckett Sennecke ended up with it on the left side and slipped a pass to Killorn for a shot before Vanecek was set. Killorn also had two assists.

Ryan Poehling had a goal and an assist, and Cutter Gauthier and Mikael Granlund also scored to help the Ducks (38-27-4, 80 points) – again playing without suspended defenseman Radko Gudas – rebound from a 3-2 overtime loss to Philadelphia on Wednesday night at home. They moved three points ahead of second-place Edmonton in the division (with a game in hand) and took two of three against Utah to win the season series.

Poehling tied it with 6:23 left in the first period, beating Vanecek with a nifty move on a short-handed break. Poehling took a pass from Killorn, sped down the left side, cut right and shot against the grain to the left.

Utah outshot the Ducks 14-5 in the first period, with the Ducks not having their first shot on goal until 11:53.

The Ducks put it away with two empty-net goals. Cutter Gauthier scored his 36th of the season with 1:36 remaining, then Poehling set Granlund up for a wrist shot into the vacated net with 55 seconds left.

With the secondary assist on the Gauthier’s goal, John Carlson recorded his first point as a Duck since being acquired on March 6 in a trade with the Washington Capitals.

Dylan Guenther scored his 34th goal of the season for Utah – at 1:48 of the first of the Mammoth’s second shot on goal. Sean Durzi set up the goal with a cross-ice pass, and Guenther scored on a slap shot from down on one knee.

Utah remained six points ahead of the idle Kings for the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

Vanecek made 20 saves for the Mammoth (36-28-6, 78 points), who were playing the opener of a four-game homestand. They had won two straight on the road, beating Dallas, 6-3, on Monday night to snap a four-game losing streak and topping Vegas, 4-0, on Thursday night.

Gudas served the fourth game of his five-game suspension for kneeing Auston Matthews in a loss at Toronto on March 12. Matthews tore the medial collateral ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the season.

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