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VGK Goes Deep into the Knight to Win

There was a sense of Deja Vu as the Vegas Golden Knights and Utah Mammoth played for over three hours. For the second consecutive game the Knights had to dig deep and come from behind and force overtime and eventually win two overtime thrillers.

Game 4 looked destined to head to double overtime before Vegas put it to bed with a Shea Theodore goal in the final minute of the extra period for a 5-4 win. Two nights later Game 5 did reach a second overtime, and it ended nearly the same way with the exact same score. This time it was Brett Howden show closed the show with the game winning shorthanded goal for another exciting Golden Knights victory.

For the second time in a 48-hour span, Utah has no one else to blame but themselves. Once again Utah gave up the final two goals of the contest. In Game 4 they erased a 3-0 deficit to score four unanswered goals to take a 4-3 lead only to give it away and eventually lose in OT.

The same thing happened on Wednesday night. Clinging to the same one goal lead, Utah could not stop Vegas with an extra skater in the final minute of regulation. Pavel Dorofeyev's third goal of the night found the back of the net with :52 remaining to force overtime. This happened after the Mammoth rallied back themselves with two goals within 1:24 span earlier in the period to take 4-3 lead.

After neither team could score in the first overtime, it was Howden who lit the lamp at the 5:28 mark of the second OT period and sent the Vegas home crowd happy with a late-night win to take a 3-2 series lead. It was Howden's second shorthanded goal in this series.

The action now shifts back to Salt Lake City for Game 6 on Friday night with the Mammoth in survival mode. No one is sure what the outcome will be as each game has been unpredictably wild. The safe bet is to get rest early in the day as they could be playing well into the night once again.