SALT LAKE CITY \u2013 The script of the first round was, indeed, the same as the last.<\/p>\n
The Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> are moving on to the second round after defeating the Utah Mammoth 5-1 in Game 6 at Delta Center on Friday.<\/p>\n Next up will be the Anaheim Ducks in the second round for the first playoff matchup ever between the Interstate-15 rivals. Anaheim just upset the two-time Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers in six games.<\/p>\n Game 1 will be at T-Mobile Arena. The day of the opener has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n Mitch Marner scored twice for his first goals of the playoffs, and Brett Howden scored his fourth goal in three games.<\/p>\n The Knights trailed the series 2-1 after losing 4-2 in Game 3 in Utah. But just like last year\u2019s first-round series against the Minnesota Wild, the Knights responded with back-to-back overtime wins and a convincing Game 6 victory to send them to the second round.<\/p>\n Goaltender Carter Hart finished with 21 saves. He carried a shutout for nearly 48 minutes until Utah winger Kailer Yamamoto squeaked a shot by Hart from the right circle.<\/p>\n Colton Sissons answered 1:58 later on a rebound for his second goal of the series and restored the two-goal lead.<\/p>\n Coach John Tortorella was asked prior to morning skate if the Knights needed to get off to a fast start.<\/p>\n \u201cI certainly don\u2019t want a slow start,\u201d Tortorella said, in a light-hearted manner.<\/p>\n The messaging was if the Knights play the way they\u2019re capable of, they want to get to it quickly.<\/p>\n They did with a 10-6 edge in shots through the first period. They were rewarded with the game\u2019s first goal.<\/p>\n Who else, courtesy of the hottest goal scorer in the series?<\/p>\n Howden \u2013 responsible for the game-winning goal<\/a> in Game 5 \u2013 opened the scoring by scoring on a weak-side rebound with 4:58 left in the first for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n Utah made its push in the second period, but Hart \u2013 who stopped all seven shots he faced in the second period \u2013 stood tall.<\/p>\n Marner\u2019s goal with 45 seconds left in the middle frame didn\u2019t ice the game, but it might as well have been the dagger.<\/p>\n The Knights had a shift of nearly two minutes where they cycled the puck, worked it down low and hemmed Utah\u2019s defense in.<\/p>\n The puck eventually landed on Marner\u2019s stick, who skated toward the right circle and fired a slap shot that hit the far corner for his first playoff goal as a member of the Knights.<\/p>\n That was all the Knights needed.<\/p>\n Experience, in the end, played a factor in this series. The young Mammoth had their chance with two third-period leads and a chance to put a stranglehold on the series.<\/p>\n Three overtimes in a 48-hour span took the life out of the Mammoth. It showed in that second goal, and it showed as Game 6 wore on.<\/p>\n The Knights are moving on to the second round. What are they going to do next?<\/p>\n They\u2019re going to Disneyland.<\/p>\n Contact Danny Webster at dwebster@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow @DannyWebster21<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2013 The script of the first round was, indeed, the same as the last. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-296157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}