Golden Knights win over Mammoth twice in one overtime
This was quite the way for a game to end.
Golden Knights win over Mammoth twice in one overtime originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Vegas Golden Knights thought they had won already.
Head coach John Tortorella had already left the bench area by the time Pavel Dorofeyev's overtime goal was overturned Monday night against the Utah Mammoth . It was called back for offside on Jack Eichel, so they had to do it again. Shea Theodore provided the actual final note of the song, depositing the game-winner for real later in the first OT period and sending Vegas home happy, even after it took a little while.
“Obviously, it sucks having that (first) one called back, but we kept our foot on the gas," Theodore told reporters after the game, via Sportsnet . "Scoring an OT winner is pretty special. ” MORE: A scene that sums up Sidney Crosby and the Penguins It was a wild Game 4, with Vegas opening up a 3-0 lead, giving it all back, then pulling out the 5-4 overtime victory.
After the game, Golden Knights star Mitch Marner summed up the oddity of the finish. “I think that’s maybe a first for me, just everyone jumping on the ice and then obviously the offside call,” Marner told reporters, via Sportsnet. “The building got pretty rocking there, and there was the sigh of relief for their fanbase and for them.