Shea Theodore Wins It in OT and Vegas Just Won't Go Away
The Vegas Golden Knights were dead in the water. Down three goals early. Utah screaming. The series looking like it was slipping away. Then Shea Theodore snapped a shot from the high slot with 51.5 seconds left in overtime and suddenly Vegas was alive again, stealing Game 4 with a 5-4 victory over the Utah Mammoth on Monday night and knotting this first-round series at 2-2.
Vegas Built a Wall, Then Lost It
The Knights came out like they were on a mission. Pavel Dorofeyev lit the lamp just 72 seconds into the first period, and then Brett Howden followed with a short-handed wrist shot with 1:22 left in the opening frame. Cole Smith added a tip-in early in the second, and just like that, Vegas had a 3-0 stranglehold on the game.
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👉 Claim Your Free $10 at KalshiBut Utah wasn't ready to go home quietly. The Mammoth stormed back with four straight goals, and the momentum flip was brutal to watch if you were wearing silver and black. Nick Schmaltz got Utah on the board at 8:04 of the second, then Ian Cole answered back with a 50-foot slapshot just 29 seconds later. Michael Carcone tied it on another slap shot early in the third, and then Clayton Keller's wrist shot off a deflection gave Utah a 4-3 lead at 5:10 of the third period.
The Wild Ride to Overtime
Brett Howden stepped up when Vegas needed him most, tapping in a rebound with 9:35 left in the third to force overtime at 4-4. But here's where it gets messy: earlier in OT, Dorofeyev appeared to have won it with a tap-in at 9:41, but the goal was waved off after officials determined Vegas was offsides. That would have crushed most teams. Not these Knights.
Theodore's snap shot from the high slot in the closing moments of overtime sealed it. Vegas lives to fight another day. Karel Vejmelka made 31 saves for Utah. Carter Hart stopped 27 for the Golden Knights.
Game 5 is Wednesday night in Las Vegas, and this series is going to go the distance.
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