{"id":645489,"date":"2026-05-02T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645489\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:26:09","slug":"mammoth-lose-west-1st-round-to-golden-knights-inability-to-hold-leads-among-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645489\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth lose West 1st Round to Golden Knights, inability to hold leads among factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3. Inexperience showed<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest storylines heading into the series was the inexperience of the Mammoth versus the playoff pedigree of the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n<p>After Game 6, Mammoth head coach Andre Tourigny said, &#8220;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/clayton-keller-8479343\" title=\"Clayton Keller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clayton Keller<\/a>) and (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nick-schmaltz-8477951\" title=\"Nick Schmaltz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Schmaltz<\/a>), when the series started, they were kind of, &#8216;That&#8217;s not the same, it&#8217;s just not the same hockey. It&#8217;s just different.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eight players made their playoff debuts in the series for the Mammoth and for others like Keller and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/lawson-crouse-8478474\" title=\"Lawson Crouse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawson Crouse<\/a>, their only playoff experience prior to this season came with the Arizona Coyotes in 2020 with no fans in Edmonton due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Utah responded well to the challenge early on, but their inexperience most likely played a factor in their inability to close out games and ultimately led to their elimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3. Inexperience showed One of the biggest storylines heading into the series was the inexperience of the Mammoth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-645489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}