{"id":561818,"date":"2026-04-28T17:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/561818\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:03:17","slug":"shea-theodores-overtime-goal-lifts-golden-knights-to-5-4-win-over-mammoth-series-tied-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/561818\/","title":{"rendered":"Shea Theodore\u2019s overtime goal lifts Golden Knights to 5-4 win over Mammoth; series tied 2-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Shea Theodore scored on a snap shot from the high slot with 51.5 seconds left in overtime and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Utah Mammoth 5-4 after squandering a three-goal lead, tying their first-round playoff series at two games apiece.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just didn\u2019t quit,\u201d Theodore said.<\/p>\n

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Game 5 in the best-of-seven series is in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The Golden Knights<\/a> appeared to have won the game earlier in OT when Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> tapped in a loose puck with 9:41 left, but the apparent score was waved off when it was determined Vegas was offside.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good we never stopped,\u201d Theodore said. \u201cIt sucks that one got called back, but it was good to get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vegas\u2019 Brett Howden<\/a> scored his second goal of the game on a tip-in with 9:35 remaining in the third period, and that forced overtime after Utah had stormed back with four straight goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI liked the way we responded in the third after they scored,\u201d Howden said. \u201cWe stuck with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Golden Knights raced out to a 3-0 lead with two goals in the first and one early in the second by Dorofeyev, Howden and Cole Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Utah countered with four straight scores, capped by Clayton Keller<\/a>\u2019s wrist shot off a deflection for a 4-3 lead at the 5:10 mark of the third period.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of the way our guys responded to adversity,\u201d Utah coach Andre Tourigny said. \u201cIt was a hard-fought game. We know how good they can be and I think we responded well in the second half of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Utah\u2019s Karel Vejmelka<\/a> stopped 31 shots. Carter Hart<\/a> made 29 saves for Vegas.<\/p>\n

Facing a three-goal deficit, Utah\u2019s Nick Schmaltz<\/a> and Ian Cole<\/a> scored 29 seconds apart in the second period to set the Mammoth\u2019s comeback in motion. Schmaltz got Utah on the board at the 8:04 mark, and Cole followed with a 50-foot slap shot at 8:33 of the second.<\/p>\n

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Michael Carcone<\/a> tied it on another slap shot at 1:44 of the third.<\/p>\n

Dorofeyev flicked home a wrist shot to put the Golden Knights in front just 72 seconds into the first. Howden then threaded another wrist shot past Vejmelka\u2019s skate for a short-handed goal with 1:22 left in the period.<\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s tip-in at 3:27 of the second gave the Golden Knights their third goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started really well, lost ourselves for a bit,\u201d Vegas coach John Tortorella said. \u201cMomentum swung to their side, but we hung in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Utah fell behind early after struggling to create scoring chances during the first period. The Mammoth tallied three shots on goal over the first 20 minutes. Only one came outside of a power play.<\/p>\n

Vegas allowed 30 shots on goal over the final two regulation periods and overtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Shea Theodore scored on a snap shot from the high slot with 51.5 seconds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[1741,88,1518,17763,12832,149,5,9110,1521,4296,5619,2880,21724,9,3154,39],"class_list":["post-561818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-brett-howden","tag-carter-hart","tag-clayton-keller","tag-cole-smith","tag-game-winning-goal","tag-golden-knights","tag-hockey","tag-ian-cole","tag-karel-vejmelka","tag-michael-carcone","tag-nick-schmaltz","tag-pavel-dorofeyev","tag-rob-gray-imagn","tag-shea-theodore","tag-utah-mammoth","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116483417951237066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561818","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=561818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}