Knights battle their way to 4-2 win in Game 1 vs. Mammoth
Three unanswered goals and a lot of hits helped Vegas hold serve in the opening game of the best-of-7 opening-round Stanley Cup playoff series.
Utah's Sean Durzi (50) takes a hit from Vegas Golden Knights F Keegan Kolesar (55) in Game 1 of the opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs Sunday night at T-Mobile Arena. LAS VEGAS — Hey, nobody said this was going to be easy. Certainly, nobody in the Vegas Golden Knights’ locker room thought so.
In fact, the Knights braced themselves for a stout challenge from the Utah Mammoth Sunday night as their first-round series opened at a frenzied T-Mobile Arena. And after trailing 2-1 in the second period, Vegas scored three unanswered goals to take Game 1, 4-2, in what was a rough-and-tumble affair and a likely harbinger of what lies ahead in this series. Game 2 will be 6:30 p.
m. Tuesday at T-Mobile. “It’s the playoffs.
It’s more physical,” Knights coach John Tortorella said after his team registered 52 hits against Utah. “I thought it showed up tonight. ” The postseason may be new to the Mammoth, which is operating for the second year in Salt Lake City after residing in Arizona for 28 years and last made the playoffs in 2020.