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The Utah Mammoth erased a three-goal deficit in Game 4 of their first-round series against the Vegas Golden Knights at the Delta Center on Monday — but it wasn’t enough to secure a victory.
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Despite scoring four unanswered goals to take a 4-3 lead in the third period, the Knights tied things up with 10 minutes left before Shea Theodore called game in overtime , sealing the 5-4 final.
It was a huge missed opportunity for the Mammoth, who had a chance to take a commanding 3-1 lead and potentially advance to the second round as soon as Wednesday night.
Instead, Vegas has home-ice advantage back ahead of Game 5 at T-Mobile Arena.
“Obviously, they had a great start,” Utah head coach Andre Tourigny said afterwards, per NHL.com’s Matt Komma. “I liked the way we responded after their third goal. … Right away after that’s where we started rolling and got back in the game a little bit. So, I’m proud of the way our guys responded to adversity. That 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.”
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The Mammoth certainly got better as the contest went on, managing just three shots in the first period. They ended up steering 31 toward Knights goaltender Carter Hart , and scoring on four of them. Although Vegas managed 36 shots of their own, Utah netminder Karel Vejmelka probably would like a few of the goals back.
Despite the disappointing result, the Mammoth are still very much in this series, and have treated the home fans in Salt Lake City to two exciting hockey games in these Stanley Cup Playoffs.
“I loved our fight. We’re still playing confident,” said captain Clayton Keller , who scored his team’s fourth goal. “We got down in the game but kept going. Everyone was contributing, and we got some momentum there from the fans as well. All in all, we fought well until the end. We’ll learn from this game and still be really confident, for sure.”
The Mammoth have already won one game on the strip in this series, and they’ll hope to rewrite history when puck drops on Game 5 just past 10:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday night.
