A bad eight minutes results in a stunning defeat for the Utah Hockey Club

SALT LAKE CITY – It was a bad eight minutes.

Ottawa scored four goals in 8:09 of the first period en route to a 4-0 victory over the Utah Hockey Club on Tuesday at the Delta Center. It was Utah's first home loss of the season.

As for the rest of the game… well, it was largely controlled by the home team.

Utah had 10 more shots on goal – more than Ottawa in that crucial opening period – and created consistent scoring opportunities throughout the evening. It won more faceoffs and also had more power plays.

By most metrics, Utah appeared to be the better team. Except for that annoying scoreboard.

A promising opening period took a turn when Utah's Jack McBain and Ottawa's Noah Gregor were both called for roughing, resulting in two minutes of four-on-four hockey.

At the end of those two minutes it was: Ottawa 2, Utah 0.

Drake Batherson and Claude Giroux both took advantage of the open space by beating Connor Ingram.

Later in the half, Robert Burtuzzo was called for a holding penalty, and it took just seconds for Ottawa to capitalize on the power play with Ridly Greig scoring an unassisted goal.

The senators weren't done yet.

In the final seconds before halftime, Brady Tkachuk rebounded a missed shot and fired it past Ingram for Ottawa's fourth goal of the period.

Ingram was replaced in net by Karel Vajmelka at the start of the second period, but he did not concede a goal.

The problem was that Ottawa's Anton Forsberg also stopped all 31 of Utah's shots on goal.

This story will be updated.