Six-goal second period carries Utah Mammoth past Maple Leafs 5-4

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Six goals in twenty minutes. Nine in the game. Four of the six belonged to Utah. The second period at Delta Center turned a measured 1-0 hockey game into a 5-2 sprint, and Toronto spent the third clawing it back.

Daniil But had opened the scoring at 15, Jack McBain with the assist, and that was the entire first period. Then the gates opened: Vincent Trocheck at 21 off Logan Cooley, Mikhail Sergachev at 25 off Barrett Hayton, 3-0. Auston Matthews answered inside a minute at 26, John Tavares setting him up. Dylan Guenther pushed it back to three at 35, Kailer Yamamoto assisting, before Jack Roslovic replied at 37 — again via Matthews. MacKenzie Weegar closed the frame at 40, Clayton Keller feeding him: 5-2 after forty minutes.

Toronto would not fold. Tavares scored at 48 — with goaltender Anthony Stolarz drawing the second assist — and Gavin McKenna made it 5-4 at 52, Darren Raddysh helping. Utah killed the rest, including a late Dylan Guenther minor at 59. It was Utah's only scoreless period, and the one that tested them most. The special-teams ledger read oddly: Toronto 2-for-5 on the power play, Utah 0-for-4, and the 0-for-4 side won.

Sergachev did a bit of everything: a goal, an assist, two shots and a plus-3 from the blue line. Guenther matched the two points and added six penalty minutes across three minors. Matthews and Tavares each finished with a goal and an assist, Matthews leading Toronto with four shots. In net, Anthony Stolarz stopped 23 shots, Karel Vejmelka 22 for Utah.

Toronto scored the last two goals of the night. Utah scored the fifth, and the fifth was the one that counted.