SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Mitch Marner had two goals and an assist, Carter Hart made 21 saves and Vegas Golden Knights beat the Utah Mammoth 5-1 on Friday night in Game 6 to wrap up the first-round series.<\/p>\n
Vegas will face Anaheim in the second round. The Ducks advanced Thursday night with a 5-2 home victory over Edmonton in Game 6.<\/p>\n
Vegas has surged since John Tortorella took over as coach from the fired Bruce Cassidy, closing the regular season 7-0-1 after the change.<\/p>\n
Marner had two goals and five assists in the series.<\/p>\n
Brett Howden opened the scoring with his fourth goal of the series. Colton Sissons added a third-period goal for Vegas soon after Utah\u2019s Kailer Yamamoto cut it to 2-1. Cole Smith had an empty-netter.<\/p>\n
Howden scored with 4:58 left in the first period. Marner\u2019s shot went to the right of the goal and rebounded out front for Howden to put home.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday night in Game 5, Howden scored in double-overtime in Vegas 5-4 victory. Vegas also won 5-4 in overtime in Game 4.<\/p>\n
Marner made it 2-0 with 45 seconds left in the second after Vegas had the puck in Utah\u2019s end for more than two minutes. He blasted a slap shot from the top of the right circle off Ian Cole\u2019s knee and in.<\/p>\n
Karel Vejmelka made 21 saves for Utah. The Mammoth led in the third period in each of the first five games.<\/p>\n
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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 Mitch Marner had two goals and an assist, Carter Hart made 21 saves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,104338,125655],"class_list":["post-296173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-utah-hockey-club-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-68","tag-vegas-golden-knights-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-54"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296173","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=296173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}