{"id":153190,"date":"2025-09-13T05:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153190\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T05:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:29:06","slug":"avs-use-third-period-comeback-to-defeat-utah-5-3-in-rookie-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153190\/","title":{"rendered":"Avs Use Third-Period Comeback to Defeat Utah 5-3 in Rookie Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asan Sarkenov&#8217;s two first-period goals along with a third-period comeback helped the Avalanche defeat the Utah Mammoth 5-3 in the opening game of the Rookie Showcase at South Suburban Sports Complex on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[It was an] oustanding effort all the way through the game,&#8221; Colorado Eagles Head Coach Mark Letestu, who is serving as the Avs&#8217; Head Coach for this tournament, said after the game.<\/p>\n<p>At 12:45 of the first period, Sarkenov opened the scoring with a net-front shot set up by a low-to-high feed from Vincent Desjardins.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkenov doubled Colorado\u2019s lead at 15:54 of the first period with a one-timer from the high slot set up by Evan Friesen\u2019s feed off the rush.<\/p>\n<p>At 17:32 of the first period, Sam Lipkin put the Mammoth on the board from the low slot.<\/p>\n<p>Miko Matikka tied the game for Utah at 9:47 of the third period with a wrist shot from the high slot.<\/p>\n<p>The Mammoth took a 3-2 lead at 16:45 of the third period when Michal Kunc scored via a left-circle shot.<\/p>\n<p>Just 33 seconds later, Sean Behrens, who missed the entire 2024-25 season due to injury, tied the game at 17:18 of the third period with a wrist shot from the slot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been almost a year,&#8221; Behrens said. &#8220;So just to be playing again is unreal. And to be able to get one (goal) is even better.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asan Sarkenov&#8217;s two first-period goals along with a third-period comeback helped the Avalanche defeat the Utah Mammoth 5-3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-153190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}