{"id":557720,"date":"2026-04-22T05:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557720\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:42:13","slug":"golden-knights-drop-game-2-to-mammoth-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557720\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights Drop Game 2 to Mammoth, 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegas Golden Knights fell to the Utah Mammoth, 3-2, in Game 2 of their First-Round series on Tuesday night at T-Mobile Arena, evening up the series, 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT WENT DOWN<br \/>The Golden Knights struck first with 8:18 remaining in the first period on the man advantage as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/mark-stone-8475913\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Stone<\/a>\u2019s centering pass deflected off a Mammoth defenseman into the net, giving Vegas an early 1-0 advantage. MacKenzie Weegar knotted up the score for Utah with just over three minutes left in the frame. The Mammoth grabbed their first lead of the game with 5:04 left in the second period when Dylan Guenther scored on a slapshot from the blue line. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/ivan-barbashev-8477964\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Barbashev<\/a> fired back just over a minute later, going upstairs on a backhander as he was streaking to the net to draw Vegas even once again, 2-2, heading into the final frame. Logan Cooley put Utah up, 3-2, with six minutes left in the contest, shoveling in a rebound in front of the net to give the Mammoth a series-tying win in Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>SERIES AT A GLANCE<br \/>All times PST<br \/>Game 1: Sunday, April 19 at 7 p.m. | T-Mobile Arena |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4i3rZ_OnXXs&amp;t=1s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HIGHLIGHTS<\/a><br \/>Game 2: Tuesday, April 21 at 6:30 p.m. | T-Mobile Arena | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UDtR4whKJNQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HIGHLIGHTS<\/a><br \/>Game 3: Friday, April 24 at 6:30 p.m. | Delta Center<br \/>Game 4: Monday, April 27 \u2013 6:30 p.m. | Delta Center<br \/>Game 5: Wednesday, April 29 \u2013 Time TBD |\u00a0T-Mobile Arena |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/info\/playoff-hub\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BUY TICKETS<\/a><br \/>Game 6 (if necessary): Friday, May 1 \u2013 Time TBD | Delta Center<br \/>Game 7 (if necessary): Sunday, May 3 \u2013 Time TBD |\u00a0T-Mobile Arena |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/info\/playoff-hub\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BUY TICKETS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ATTENDANCE:\u00a017,871<\/p>\n<p>LOOKING AHEAD<br \/>Vegas will head to Utah for Game 3 of the opening round as they face off with the Mammoth at 6:30 p.m. PT on Friday at Delta Center. Catch the action on The Spot-Vegas 34 in Las Vegas, TBS\/HBO MAX nationally, or listen on FOX Sports Las Vegas 94.7\/1340 and Deportes Vegas 1460.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights fell to the Utah Mammoth, 3-2, in Game 2 of their First-Round series on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,4,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-557720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-golden-knights","9":"tag-goldenknights","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-vegas","13":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","14":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116446766390620000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}