{"id":611222,"date":"2026-04-28T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/611222\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:43:11","slug":"3-things-to-watch-golden-knights-at-mammoth-game-4-of-western-conference-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/611222\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Things to Watch: Golden Knights at Mammoth, Game 4 of Western Conference 1st Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

3. “Veggie”<\/p>\n

Utah goalie Karel Vejmelka<\/a>\u00a0is excelling in his first NHL playoff series. He’s 2-1 with a 2.36 goals-against average and .916 save percentage after making 30 saves in a 4-2 win in Game 3.<\/p>\n

“It’s huge, I think,” Crouse said. “There has been a lot of talk about the (penalty kill), but (Vejmelka) has been our best (penalty killer). He’s the backbone of our PK when he’s making those saves. And yeah, all season long, especially of late, he’s been giving us a chance to win, and it energizes our group, especially when he comes up with a massive save for us. It gives you life. You can really build off that.”<\/p>\n

Vegas goalie Carter Hart<\/a> is 1-2 with a 3.10 GAA and .892 save percentage after allowing four goals on 12 shots in Game 3.<\/p>\n

Golden Knights projected lineup<\/p>\n

Ivan Barbashev — Jack Eichel — Pavel Dorofeyev<\/p>\n

Reilly Smith — Mitch Marner — Mark Stone<\/p>\n

Brett Howden — Tomas Hertl — Keegan Kolesar<\/p>\n

Cole Smith — Nic Dowd — Colton Sissons<\/p>\n

Brayden McNabb — Shea Theodore<\/p>\n

Noah Hanifin — Rasmus Andersson<\/p>\n

Jeremy Lauzon — Kaedan Korczak<\/p>\n

Carter Hart<\/p>\n

Adin Hill<\/p>\n

Scratched: Braeden Bowman, Trevor Connelly, Ben Hutton, Brandon Saad, Akira Schmid<\/p>\n

Injured: William Karlsson (lower body), Jonas Rondbjerg (lower body)<\/p>\n

Mammoth projected lineup<\/p>\n

Clayton Keller — Nick Schmaltz — Lawson Crouse<\/p>\n

Kailer Yamamoto — Logan Cooley — Dylan Guenther<\/p>\n

JJ Peterka — Alexander Kerfoot — Michael Carcone<\/p>\n

Liam O’Brien — Kevin Stenlund — Brandon Tanev<\/p>\n

Mikhail Sergachev — MacKenzie Weegar<\/p>\n

Nate Schmidt — John Marino<\/p>\n

Ian Cole — Sean Durzi<\/p>\n

Karel Vejmelka<\/p>\n

Vitek Vanecek<\/p>\n

Scratched: Daniil But, Kevin Rooney, Nick DeSimone, Dmitri Simashev, Matt Villalta<\/p>\n

Injured: Barrett Hayton (upper body)<\/p>\n

Status report<\/p>\n

Forwards Bowman and Connelly were recalled from Henderson of the American Hockey League on Sunday. They practiced with the Golden Knights but are not expected to play Game 4. … The Mammoth held an optional morning skate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3. “Veggie” Utah goalie Karel Vejmelka\u00a0is excelling in his first NHL playoff series. He’s 2-1 with a 2.36…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-611222","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\/611222","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=611222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}