Clayton Keller scored three goals and helped on another, lifting the visiting Utah Mammoth to a 7-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks in NHL action Saturday night at Rogers Arena.
Kailer Yamamoto, Dylan Guenther, Lawson Crouse and Liam O’Brien also scored for the winners (40-30-6), with Karel Vejmelka earning the victory in net, stopping 18 shots.
Linus Karlsson had a pair of goals for the Canucks (22-26-8), with Jake DeBrusk and Marco Rossi adding singles. Nikita Tolopilo took the loss in goal, making 17 saves on 23 shots.
Karlsson opened the scoring for the Canucks 2:28 into the first period. He grabbed a loose puck along the right boards, moved into the middle and backhanded his 14th goal of the year past Vejmelka.
Utah pulled even at 13:34, when Cooley snared the puck after a Vancouver turnover and fired a shot toward the net, which was tipped in by Yamamoto, who has 11 goals on the year.
With 90 seconds left in the period, Keller gave the Mammoth a 2-1 lead. After another Vancouver turnover, he took a drop pass from Lawson Crause and fired a shot past Tolopilo, off the right post and in for his 23rd marker of the year.
Shots after one period favoured the Canucks, 11-8.
Karlsson lifted the Canucks back into a 2-2 tie 2:05 into the second period, tipping in a Victor Mancini point shot.
Keller scored his second of the night, deflecting home a Guenther blast at 7:04 of the period. The goal was initially waved off for a high stick, but granted following a replay.
After missing a pair of shorthanded breakaways, the Mammoth then made it 4-2 when Guenther took a nice feed from John Marino and slotted home his 38th of the year at 11:55.
Shots after 40 minutes were even at 18-18.
Just 20 seconds into the third period, DeBrusk made it 4-3 with a nifty deflection off a Filip Hronek point shot on the power play. DeBrusk has 19 goals on the year, 16 with the man advantage.
Crouse answered at 1:32 to restore the two-goal lead, taking a pass from Keller after a poor clearing attempt from Tolopilo and firing home his 21st of the year.
Rossi made it 5-4 with a power-play marker at 4:40, lofting a shot past Vejmelka from just inside the blue-line. Brock Boeser earned an assist on the play and is now eighth overall in career points for the Canucks with 478, tied with the legendary Pavel Bure.
O’Brien made it 6-4 at 11:45, deftly deking out Tolopilo and slipping home his third of the year.
Keller sealed things with his hat-trick goal at 19:07, scoring into an empty net.
The Canucks, who have six games remaining on the schedule and will finish last overall in the league standings, host the Vegas Golden Knights Tuesday (7 p.m.).
From East Vancouver to 1000 games played in the NHL.
Congratulations Evander Kane on becoming just the third player ever from Vancouver to reach this monumental milestone. pic.twitter.com/uylyc0dwB8
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) April 4, 2026
NOTES: Before the game, Vancouver’s Evander Kane was honoured with a special ceremony, receiving the traditional silver stick after playing his 1,000th NHL game… The Mammoth are now 6-0 against Canucks since moving to Utah from Arizona… The Canucks recalled goalie Jiri Patera under “emergency conditions” from Abbotsford of the American Hockey League to back up Tolopilo after Kevin Lankinen was made a late scratch…