Golden Knights and Mammoth play to 4-all tie through regulation in Game 4
Golden Knights and Mammoth play to 4-all tie through regulation in Game 4
JOHN COON Tue, April 28, 2026 at 4:46 AM UTC
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1 / 0Knights Mammoth HockeyVegas Golden Knights goaltender Carter Hart protects the net during the first period of Game 4 of a first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series against the Utah Mammoth, Monday, April 27, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate) ()
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —
Vegas' Brett Howden scored on a tip-in with 9:35 remaining in the third period as the Golden Knights and the Utah Mammoth played to a 4-4 tie through regulation Monday night in Game 4 of their first-round playoff series.
Utah leads in the series 2-1.
The Golden Knights raced out to a 3-0 lead with two goals in the first and one early in the second by Pavel Dorofeyev, Brett Howden, and Cole Smith.
Utah countered with four straight scores, capped by Clayton Keller’s wrist shot off a deflection for a 4-3 lead at the 5:10 mark of the third period.
Utah's Karel Vejmelka had 24 stops in the first three periods. Carter Hart had 18 saves for Vegas in regulation.
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Facing a three-goal deficit, Utah's Nick Schmaltz and Ian Cole scored 29 seconds apart in the second period to set the Mammoth's comeback in motion. Schmaltz got Utah on the board at the 8:04 mark, and Cole followed with a 50-foot slapshot at 8:33 of the second.
Michael Carcone tied it on another slapshot at 1:44 of the third.
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’s skate for a short-handed goal with 1:22 left in the period.
Smith’s tip-in at 3:27 of the second gave the Golden Knights their third goal.
Game 5 of the best-of-seven series is Wednesday night in Las Vegas.
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