SALT LAKE CITY - Martin Necas scored to extend his point streak to 11 games, but 49 saves from Karel Vejmelka and three third-period goals lifted the Utah Hockey Club to a 4-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes at the Delta Center on Wednesday.

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.

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 won for the fourth time at home this season (4-2-1).

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.

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.

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