Mammoth 5, Penguins 4: Four Multi-Point Nights, Then Cossa's Pad

October 19, 2026 - Salt Lake City - It was 5-2 Utah 1:36 into the third. Then Egor Chinakhov went five-hole, Declan Carlile buried a rebound, and Sebastian Cossa still had to throw a left pad at Ben Kindel in the last seconds. Delta Center kept 5-4. Cossa told NHL.com he was asking if the game was over yet.

The Utah Mammoth beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-4. Utah is 7-3-0, four of five. Pittsburgh is 3-6-1, four losses in a row, seven of eight (1-6-1), 0-4-0 on the trip that just ended. Shots were 29-19 Utah. Attendance was 14,111, per ESPN.

Kevin Stenlund, Nate Schmidt, Kailer Yamamoto, Sebastian Cossa, Daniil But, Declan Carlile, Andrei Kuzmenko, Sergei Murashov, and Ilya Solovyov are not seeded on AthX player pages, so those names stay unlinked.

Clayton Keller, Nick Schmaltz, Stenlund, and Schmidt each had a goal and an assist. Yamamoto scored. Cossa stopped 15 of 19 for the first home start of his NHL career, he told NHL.com. Erik Karlsson and Rickard Rakell each had a goal and an assist. Bryan Rust had two assists. Chinakhov and Carlile scored. Arturs Silovs stopped 24 of 29.

1-0 Pittsburgh in 71 seconds, then Utah's fourth line

Karlsson opened it at 1:11 on the power play. Point shot, off MacKenzie Weegar's left skate, past Cossa. Rust and Tommy Novak the assists.

Keller tied it at 6:00. Lawson Crouse no-looked from the left corner. Keller backhanded it over Silovs' glove. The AP recap said Crouse went around Karlsson's leg. Keller's third goal in three games.

Stenlund made it 2-1 at 10:10, a rebound flip off Mikhail Sergachev. Jack McBain the other helper. Andre Tourigny told NHL.com Stenlund, But, and McBain were rock-solid, physical, simple, effective.

Rakell tied it 2-2 at 7:01 of the second on the power play. Rust to the left of the net. Rakell tucked it past Cossa's left skate. Karlsson the other assist.

Schmidt from the blue line, Yamamoto, then Schmaltz to 5-2

Schmidt blasted one from the blue line at 11:44 through a screen. Stenlund and But the assists. 3-2. Schmidt told NHL.com he liked the directness, especially after goals, the way the group took momentum back.

Yamamoto tapped Schmidt's pass at 14:40. Barrett Hayton the other helper. 4-2.

Rust left at 14:59 of the second with a lower-body injury. Dan Muse had no update. Samuel Girard did not play after an injury Saturday in Vegas. Chinakhov returned after two games out with a lower-body injury. Solovyov made his season debut after a recall: one block, one hit, 15:52. John Marino is day to day, upper body, the NHL recap said.

Schmaltz made it 5-2 at 1:36 of the third on the power play. Silovs stopped the first shot. Schmaltz tucked the rebound around the right skate. Keller and Logan Cooley the assists. The NHL notes said Schmaltz reached 150 points with the franchise (60 goals, 90 assists in 174 games). Keller has 191.

Five-hole, a rebound, then the pad

Chinakhov cut it to 5-3 at 2:55. Kuzmenko's pass in stride. Chinakhov past the defense, five-hole. Spencer Stastney the other assist on the landing.

Carlile made it 5-4 at 14:55 from the left circle off Rakell's point shot. Kaedan Korczak the other helper.

Cossa's sprawling pad on Kindel closed it. He said MacKenzie Weegar and Schmidt were right there. Muse told NHL.com Pittsburgh has to stay together and make the defensive side a priority. Sidney Crosby said they had leads, fought back, and did not put a complete game together on the trip. Crosby finished with one shot, two PIM, and 0.10 AthX Engine fantasy points in 18:31.

Pittsburgh hosts Florida on Thursday. Utah visits Seattle that night.

AthX Engine on a 5-4 that still paid the winner 19.00

AthX Engine (our projection and scoring system) scored Karlsson at 9.10 (goal, assist, a shot, three blocks, the power-play bonus). Rakell is 8.80. Schmaltz is 8.20. Stenlund is 7.70. Schmidt is 7.10. Keller is 6.60. Yamamoto is 6.20. Carlile is 5.70. Sergachev is 5.40. Rust is 5.00 in 9:32. Cossa's win, 15 saves, and four goals against land at 4.20. Silovs is 3.60.

Utah's team line is 19.00. Pittsburgh's 4-5 is 3.80.

Fantasy points measure the box. Price is what traders will pay for four Mammoth multi-point nights that almost got spent in the last five minutes, and for a Penguins trip that finished 0-4-0 with Crosby at 0.10. They are not the same number.

Track Keller, Schmaltz, Karlsson, and both clubs on the marketplace.

*Sources: AP recap (ESPN), ESPN box score, NHL.com recap, NHL.com scoreboard, ESPN NHL scoreboard. AthX Engine fantasy points scored from NHL gamecenter box 2026020140. Information only; not financial advice.*