{"id":21444,"date":"2025-05-09T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/21444\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:17:10","slug":"mavericks-put-knight-monsters-on-brink-of-elimination-in-mountain-division-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/21444\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Put Knight Monsters On Brink Of Elimination In Mountain Division Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/knightmonstershockey.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tahoe Knight Monsters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tahoe Knight Monsters <\/a>trailed 2-0 in the Mountain Division Finals against the <a href=\"https:\/\/kcmavericks.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Mavericks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Mavericks <\/a>heading into Thursday night. But Game 3 would be played at Tahoe Blue Event Center, and the Knight Monsters were hoping to use that advantage to get back in the series.<\/p>\n<p>It was not to be, however. The Mavericks came away with a 3-1 victory, taking a commanding 3-0 lead in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Bear Hughes scored the game\u2019s first goal on a 5-on-3 advantage where he roofed the puck past Mavericks netminder Jack LaFontaine early in the opening frame for a 1-0 Tahoe lead.<\/p>\n<p>The lead didn\u2019t last long. KC tied the game 1-1 late in the frame with a power-play goal of their own. Zack Trott buried a rebound at 19:53 of the frame, with David Cotton and Cam Morrison assisting<\/p>\n<p>In the second, Kansas City took over, outshooting Tahoe 13-7 and scoring twice. Damien Giroux slammed home another rebound at 12:25, assisted by Jackson Berezowski and Cotton, to give the Mavericks their first lead at 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Four minutes later, Casey Carreau extended the lead to 3-1 with a high-slot shot past Tahoe goalie Jesper Vikman. Jake McLaughlin and Luke Loheit each earned an assist.<\/p>\n<p>The Knight Monsters controlled the pace of play for most of the third period, but LaFontaine locked things down from there with a 12-save performance in the frame.<\/p>\n<p>Vikman finished the contest with 26 saves on 29 shots seen, but it wasn\u2019t enough as the final buzzer sounded on a 3-1 loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Knight Monsters will look to keep their season alive on Friday night for Game 4 of the series at the Tahoe Blue Event Center. Puck drop is set for 7 Pm PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tahoe Knight Monsters trailed 2-0 in the Mountain Division Finals against the Kansas City Mavericks heading into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,7461,7463,7459,166,6,7460,7462,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-21444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-david-cotton","13":"tag-jack-lafontaine","14":"tag-kansas-city-mavericks","15":"tag-mavericks","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-tahoe-blue-event-center","18":"tag-tahoe-knight-monsters","19":"tag-the-mavericks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114478779486094545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}