Associated Press

Utah Hockey Club (5-4-2, in the Central Division) vs. Vegas Golden Knights (7-3-1, in the Pacific Division)

Paradise, Nevada; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT

BOTTOM LINE: The Vegas Golden Knights host the Utah Hockey Club after Pavel Dorofeyev’s two-goal game against the Los Angeles Kings in the Golden Knights’ 6-3 loss.

Vegas has a 7-3-1 record overall and a 7-0-0 record on its home ice. The Golden Knights are 7-2-1 when scoring three or more goals.

Utah is 5-4-2 overall and 2-2-1 on the road. The Utah Hockey Club have gone 3-1-0 in games they have fewer penalties than their opponent.

The teams meet Saturday for the first time this season.

INJURIES: Golden Knights: None listed.

Utah Hockey Club: None listed.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

SYRACUSE — Over one hundred million onions are packaged annually at Onions 52 in Syracuse. None of the onions there are being tied to the deadly E. coli outbreak at McDonald’s.

The CDC is now saying the outbreak came from fresh slivered onions, reportedly served on the quarter pounder burger, sickening 90 people in 13 states, including seven people in Utah.

On Thursday, the general manager for Onions 52 showed KSL TV their facility and how they avoid such outbreaks.

“We do swab verification on our cleaning to make sure that our cleaning process was actually done correctly,” said Cody Heiner, General Manager at Onions 52.

Another way they avoid outbreaks is onions there are shipped whole.

“We sell them as a whole dry bulb onion, we’re not doing any cutting, washing, or anything like that, so it takes a lot of the risk out,” Heiner said.

If there were issues, each onion batch is tagged, identifying where it was grown.

Local farmers supplying onions to Onions 52, like McFarland Family farms in Weber County, said their safety process starts before onions are ever planted.

“When we order that seed, we make sure that seed is cleared by all the food safety people, when we order the fertilizer, we make sure it’s the certified fertilizer,” said Kenny McFarland of McFarland Family Farms.

Each onion field also goes through rigorous testing.

“We’ll actually take a plant leaf and take it into a lab and run a test to make sure there’s no pathogens and there’s no E. coli of any kind,” McFarland said.

Every batch that passes is sorted, packaged, and shipped to big buyers nationwide. Each onion intact, they have shipments leaving their facility 52 weeks a year.

“There’s a lot of trust there, with the grower, and they’ve all been vetted and through the whole process. We’re not afraid to put our name on our onions that come from our local growers,” Heiner said.

The Utah Jazz look for their first win of the season during their fifth outing on the year, set to take on Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs back at home on Halloween night.

Starting off with a 0-4 record, the Jazz sit as the lone team in the NBA without a win to their name yet, as the Detroit Pistons secured their first of the year on Wednesday night. It may be tough without a few key players like Taylor Hendricks and Lauri Markkanen potentially out of the lineup, but it’s hard to count Utah out when they’re on home turf.

Entering Thursday’s matchup, the Jazz will be favored to win this game via the sportsbooks for the first time this season.

As for the Spurs, they’ve gotten off to a rocky beginning for their season through four games, logging a 1-3 record to place right alongside the Jazz at the bottom of the Western Conference standings. However, with a long season ahead, and a talent like Wembanyama holding down both ends of the floor, it’s hard to count this team out in any matchup.

With that, here’s everything you need to know ahead of the Jazz’s fifth regular season game of the year.

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