{"id":296760,"date":"2026-05-02T15:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296760\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:49:22","slug":"golden-knights-defeat-mammoth-5-1-advance-to-2nd-round-to-play-anaheim-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296760\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights defeat Mammoth 5-1, advance to 2nd round to play Anaheim Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sat, May 2, 2026 at 5:05 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5795bc4e795fa0c1968f9d30ee3f129a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Golden Knights defeat Mammoth 5-1, advance to 2nd round to play Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n<p>LAS VEGAS (KLAS) \u2014 The Vegas Golden Knights advance to the second round in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, defeating the Utah Mammoth, 5-1, in Game 6.<\/p>\n<p>Dominant throughout the game on Friday night, the Golden Knights took over in the third period, led by Mitch Marner\u2019s two goals, and won the best-of-seven series 4-2.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;em&gt;Utah Mammoth goaltender Karel Vejmelka (70) and right wing Kailer Yamamoto (56) blocks the puck against Vegas Golden Knights right wing Mark Stone (61) during the second period of Game 6 in the first round of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series, Friday, May 1, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo\/Melissa Majchrzak)&lt;\/em&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a2f9dc70b0376fb9f3548c67051a672c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth goaltender Karel Vejmelka (70) and right wing Kailer Yamamoto (56) blocks the puck against Vegas Golden Knights right wing Mark Stone (61) during the second period of Game 6 in the first round of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series, Friday, May 1, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo\/Melissa Majchrzak)<\/p>\n<p>VGK will play the Anaheim Ducks, who knocked off the Western Conference Champion, the Edmonton Oilers, in six games.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.8newsnow.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KLAS.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KLAS. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, May 2, 2026 at 5:05 AM UTC Golden Knights defeat Mammoth 5-1, advance to 2nd round to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,2070,29848,8985,8614,125851],"class_list":["post-296760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-mitch-marner","tag-utah-mammoth","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-western-conference-champion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296760","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=296760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}