SALT LAKE CITY-- Karel Vejmelka made a career-high 49 saves for the Utah Hockey Club in a 4-1 win against the Carolina Hurricanes at Delta Center on Wednesday. Nick Bjugstad scored twice, and Michael Kesselring had two assists for Utah (7-6-3), which had ...

Utah HC defenseman Ian Cole played for the Hurricanes in the 2021-22 season. In 75 games, he scored two goals and 19 points. He also added 83 penalty minutes — the second-highest number of his career. The team lost in game seven of the Conference Semi-Final to the New York Rangers that year.

Sebastian Aho is one game-winning goal shy of breaking Ron Francis' franchise record (57). Sean Walker is three points shy of 100 career points. This is Carolina's first game ever against the Utah Hockey Club because they are technically a new franchise.

Karel Vejmelka skated back onto the ice, pumping his arms and whooping to a Delta Center crowd eager to give him a raucous standing ovation. The usually soft-spoken and reserved Utah Hockey Club goaltender was announced as the first star of the game and let his emotion break through after making a career-high 49 saves in Wednesday’s 4-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes.

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The Carolina Hurricanes (11-3) square off against the Utah Hockey Club (6-6-3) during Wednesday’s NHL slate, starting at 9:00 PM ET at Delta Center and broadcast on ESPN+. The Hurricanes sit in second place in the Eastern Conference with 22 points and the Utah Hockey Club are 10th in the Western Conference with 15 points.

Karel Vejmelka made a career-high 49 saves and the Utah Hockey Club scored three goals within a 2:19 span in the third period for a 4-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday in Salt Lake City.

Not one, not two but three goals (and a disallowed goal) in less than three minutes lifted the Utah Hockey Club to a 4-1 win over the heavily favored Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday night. Here’s how they did it.

Nick Bjugstad scored his second goal of the game to cap the Utah Hockey Club's three-goal flurry in a 2 1/2-minute span of the third period in a 4-1 victory ove