COLUMBUS (ABC4 Sports) – Dylan Guenther has proven to have a penchant for the dramatic.
For the second straight game, Utah’s leading scorer found the back of the net in the final minute of overtime to give UHC a 3-2 win over Columbus Thursday night.
Guenther scored the game-winner with no time left on the clock Tuesday against Philadelphia. In this one, he scored his 19th goal of the season by rebounding his own shot with 33 seconds to play off an assist from goalie Connor Ingram.
“I saw they were offside,” Guenther said. “So once I saw [Ingram] get it, I kind of figured he was going to shoot it and I didn’t even really see it. I just started skating and I got it on my stick. I got a little bit lucky that it came back to me. But we’ll take it.”
Lawson Crouse and Olli Määttä also scored for Utah (23-22-9), while Ingram made 20 saves in goal.
“We found a way to push across the finish line,” Utah head coach Andrè Tourigny said. “But I think we controled our emotions much better, and we were able to come back with playing with a lot of passion and pace. I really like the way we played.”
Justin Danforth and Ivan Provorov scored, and Elvis Merzlikins made 30 saves for the Blue Jackets (26-21-8), who have lost three straight.
Danforth gave Columbus a 1-0 lead at 5:51 of the first period. The puck was rimmed around the boards to the right wall and caromed to the front of the net, where Danforth put it in.
Crouse tied it 1-1 at 2:06 of the second period, six seconds after a Utah power play expired. He was in the slot to one-time a pass from Josh Doan.
Määttä, who will play for Team Finland at the 4 Nations Face-Off from Feb. 12-20, made it 2-1 at 12:33. His centering pass intended for Nick Bjugstad in front went off the stick of Werenski.
Provorov tied it 2-2 at 19:21 with a short-handed goal, scoring with a wrist shot from above the right circle off a pass from Werenski. It was Provorov’s first short-handed goal in the NHL and extended his goal streak to a career-high three games.
“I don’t think that we played our best today and we found a way to win,” Guenther said. “But when you’re in those situations more often, you get more comfortable.”
Utah will next play at Carolina Saturday at 11:00 a.m. mountain time.
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