{"id":633528,"date":"2026-04-28T06:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633528\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:12:40","slug":"shea-theodores-overtime-goal-lifts-golden-knights-to-win-over-mammoth-series-tied-at-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633528\/","title":{"rendered":"Shea Theodore’s overtime goal lifts Golden Knights to win over Mammoth; series tied at 2-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Shea Theodore<\/a> scored on a snap shot from the high slot with 51.5 seconds left in overtime as the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> beat the Utah Mammoth<\/a> 5-4 on Monday night after squandering a three-goal lead, tying the first-round playoff series at two games apiece.<\/p>\n

Game 5 of the best-of-seven series is Wednesday night in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The Golden Knights appeared to have won the game earlier in OT when Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> tapped in a loose puck with 9:41 left, but the apparent score was waved off when it was determined Vegas was offsides.<\/p>\n

Vegas\u2019 Brett Howden<\/a> scored his second goal of the game on a tip-in with 9:35 remaining in the third period, and the goal forced overtime after Utah had stormed back with four straight goals. <\/p>\n

The Golden Knights raced out to a 3-0 lead with two goals in the first and one early in the second by Dorofeyev, Howden, and Cole Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Utah countered with four straight scores, capped by Clayton Keller<\/a>\u2019s wrist shot off a deflection for a 4-3 lead at the 5:10 mark of the third period.<\/p>\n

Utah\u2019s Karel Vejmelka<\/a> had 31 stops. Carter Hart<\/a> had 27 saves for Vegas.<\/p>\n

Facing a three-goal deficit, Utah\u2019s Nick Schmaltz<\/a> and Ian Cole<\/a> scored 29 seconds apart in the second period to set the Mammoth\u2019s comeback in motion. Schmaltz got Utah on the board at the 8:04 mark, and Cole followed with a 50-foot slapshot at 8:33 of the second.<\/p>\n

Michael Carcone<\/a> tied it on another slapshot at 1:44 of the third.<\/p>\n

Dorofeyev flicked home a wrist shot to put the Golden Knights in front just 72 seconds into the first. Howden then threaded another wrist shot past Vejmelka\u2019s skate for a short-handed goal with 1:22 left in the period.<\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s tip-in at 3:27 of the second gave the Golden Knights their third goal.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL playoffs: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

John Coon, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Shea Theodore scored on a snap shot from the high slot with 51.5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-633528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}