{"id":6294,"date":"2025-03-22T22:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T02:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2025-03-25T09:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:31:42","slug":"mayhem-drop-high-scoring-thriller-to-ice-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/news\/2025\/mayhem-drop-high-scoring-thriller-to-ice-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayhem Drop High Scoring Thriller to Ice Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

(MACON, Ga.)<\/strong> \u2013 The Mayhem tied the game on two separate occasions in the third, and scored with the extra attacker to cut the lead to one, but they could not overcome Dawson McKinney\u2019s third period hat trick as the Ice Bears clinched a playoff spot with their 5-4 win in Macon.<\/p>\n

The Mayhem fell behind early, as Jimmy Soper beat Bailey Brkin to give the Ice Bears a 1-0 lead.\u00a0 The Mayhem had two power plays in the first that they couldn\u2019t capitalize upon, and trailed by one heading into the break.<\/p>\n

In the second period, the Ice Bears scored 10 seconds into a power play of their own as Jimmy Soper batted a puck into the net to get his second of the game, and extend the Knoxville lead.\u00a0 At 16:01 of the second period, Lucas Helland was assessed a five-minute major and a game misconduct for boarding Mayhem forward Conor Witherspoon.\u00a0 Dan Winslow, playing in his 100th SPHL game, scored on the ensuing power play to cut the lead to one before the end of the second.<\/p>\n

The Mayhem struck quickly in the third, as Matteo Ybarra wired one by Hunter Virostek to even the game.\u00a0 Just a few seconds later, Dawson McKinney scored on a deflection to regain the lead for Knoxville.\u00a0 The Mayhem were able to answer again, as Zach Nazzarett scored on a broken play.<\/p>\n

Dawson McKinney continued to be a force for the Ice Bears, as just eight seconds after the equalizer from Nazzarett, McKinney scored on a one-timer off of an offensive zone draw to regain the lead.\u00a0 He completed his hat trick eventually to get the lead back to two goals for Knoxville.\u00a0 Dan Winslow would score his second of the game to cut the lead in half with the goalie pulled for Macon, but couldn\u2019t tie the game, as the Mayhem fall 5-4.<\/p>\n

The Mayhem are on the road next weekend in Roanoke before returning home for the final weekend of the regular season on April 4 and 5 against the Huntsville Havoc.\u00a0 Guarantee your seat by purchasing tickets at maconmayhem.com<\/p>\n

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(MACON, Ga.) \u2013 The Mayhem tied the game on two separate occasions in the third, and scored with the extra attacker to cut the lead to one, but they could not overcome Dawson McKinney\u2019s third period hat trick as the Ice Bears clinched a playoff spot with their 5-4 win in Macon. The Mayhem fell…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[257,268,62,241,297],"class_list":["post-6294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-recap","tag-bailey-brkin","tag-conor-witherspoon","tag-dan-winslow","tag-matteo-ybarra","tag-zach-nazzarett"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.orbicular.media\/mayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}