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Montréal Canadiens at Tampa Bay Lightning

1st Round, Game 2 · Apr 21, 2026 · Benchmark International Arena

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 2 27
Tampa Bay Lightning 3 34

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
08:40 TBL Brandon Hagel (3) Jake Guentzel (4), Erik Cernak (1) 0 - 1
16:11 MTL Lane Hutson (1) PP Nick Suzuki (3), Cole Caufield (3) 1 - 1
2nd Period
18:36 MTL Josh Anderson (2) Phillip Danault (1), Jake Evans (1) 2 - 1
3rd Period
12:33 TBL Nikita Kucherov (1) Anthony Cirelli (1), Brandon Hagel (1) 2 - 2
Overtime
12:48 TBL J.J. Moser (1) Anthony Cirelli (2) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:11 MTL Arber Xhekaj Roughing 2
10:11 MTL Arber Xhekaj Roughing 2
10:11 TBL Yanni Gourde Roughing 2
14:20 TBL Nikita Kucherov Interference 2
14:20 MTL Josh Anderson Roughing 2
14:20 TBL Brandon Hagel Roughing 2
14:20 MTL Alexandre Carrier Roughing 2
14:20 TBL Corey Perry Roughing 2
14:20 TBL Corey Perry Roughing 2
14:20 MTL Jake Evans Roughing 2
14:20 TBL Jake Guentzel Roughing 2
14:20 MTL Kirby Dach Roughing 2
14:20 TBL Darren Raddysh Roughing 2
14:20 MTL Mike Matheson High sticking 2
17:49 TBL Nick Paul Cross checking 2
20:00 TBL Yanni Gourde Roughing 2
2nd Period
00:00 MTL Arber Xhekaj Unsportsmanlike conduct 2
05:14 MTL Juraj Slafkovský Fighting 5
05:14 TBL Brandon Hagel Fighting 5
08:20 MTL Kaiden Guhle Hooking 2
19:19 TBL Ryan McDonagh Roughing 2
3rd Period
06:30 MTL Ivan Demidov Tripping 2
17:45 TBL Scott Sabourin Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 58 41 27 2 3.0 38.5
Tampa Bay Lightning 78 53 34 3 2.5 61.5

How the game went

505101520Start2nd3rdOTTampa Bay Lightning aheadMontréal Canadiens ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Tampa Bay Lightning had taken more, and below it and blue while Montréal Canadiens had.

Expected goals

Montréal Canadiens: 3.0 expected, 2 scored · Tampa Bay Lightning: 2.5 expected, 3 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTMTL goal, 16:11 of 1st, a 4% chanceMTL goal, 18:36 of 2nd, a 28% chanceTBL goal, 8:40 of 1st, a 2% chanceTBL goal, 12:33 of 3rd, a 3% chanceTBL goal, 12:48 of overtime, a 4% chanceMTL 3.0TBL 2.5

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted.

Where the attempts came from

Montréal Canadiens
Tampa Bay Lightning

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Juraj Slafkovský14:3347.644.30-2
Phillip Danault · Josh Anderson · Jake Evans10:2238.549.21-0
Alexandre Texier · Alex Newhook · Ivan Demidov10:0233.338.80-0
Kirby Dach · Zachary Bolduc · Oliver Kapanen7:1636.475.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · Alexandre Carrier15:2437.525.20-0
Kaiden Guhle · Lane Hutson15:1537.533.80-1
Jayden Struble · Arber Xhekaj8:1768.884.20-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
17 Josh Anderson R 1 0 1 1 2 4 5 17:21 0.70 11-21 0.74-0.84
48 Lane Hutson D 1 0 1 -1 0 6 0 32:00 0.41 17-29 1.07-1.05
13 Cole Caufield R 0 1 1 -2 0 1 3 24:50 0.21 11-16 0.35-0.42
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 1 1 -2 0 2 2 25:08 0.33 12-12 0.34-0.33
24 Phillip Danault C 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 18:38 0.05 17-20 0.89-0.76
71 Jake Evans C 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 16:39 0.16 14-21 0.81-0.78
8 Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 28:47 0.16 11-23 0.34-0.46
15 Alex Newhook C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 18:57 6-22 0.20-0.66
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 0 -2 5 2 2 25:33 0.42 13-14 0.42-0.41
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 -2 2 3 3 26:24 0.09 17-30 0.82-0.98
45 Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 3 27:18 12-25 0.35-0.58
47 Jayden Struble D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:05 14-15 0.78-0.49
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 0 6 0 4 09:05 0.04 11-7 0.36-0.11
76 Zachary Bolduc R 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 12:02 0.19 8-11 0.34-0.09
77 Kirby Dach C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 3 10:53 6-12 0.26-0.13
85 Alexandre Texier L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 16:37 0.09 10-21 0.35-0.59
91 Oliver Kapanen C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:04 0.12 5-10 0.27-0.07
93 Ivan Demidov R 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 20:39 5-11 0.20-0.36
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
75 Jakub Dobes L 34 31 3 72:48 2.29 -0.71

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake Guentzel · Anthony Cirelli · Brandon Hagel7:2145.540.51-0
Nikita Kucherov · Brayden Point · Gage Goncalves5:5364.346.50-0
Yanni Gourde · Gage Goncalves · Dominic James5:3987.597.00-0
Nikita Kucherov · Anthony Cirelli · Brandon Hagel5:2277.875.22-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Darren Raddysh · J.J. Moser18:0672.273.72-0
Emil Lilleberg · Declan Carlile14:2646.233.70-1
Ryan McDonagh · Erik Cernak12:2252.931.31-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
38 Brandon Hagel L 1 1 2 3 7 1 1 23:52 0.02 13-11 0.38-0.50
71 Anthony Cirelli C 0 2 2 3 0 0 3 22:43 0.09 13-9 0.31-0.25
86 Nikita Kucherov R 1 0 1 2 2 5 1 23:22 0.27 26-9 0.72-0.28
90 J.J. Moser D 1 0 1 2 0 2 1 29:14 0.05 39-15 1.11-0.47
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 1 1 1 2 4 1 25:10 0.31 22-9 0.53-0.32
81 Erik Cernak D 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 21:26 0.00 14-11 0.21-0.44
17 Dominic James C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:25 0.24 16-8 0.67-0.39
20 Nick Paul L 0 0 0 -1 2 3 1 13:32 0.17 16-16 0.42-0.82
21 Brayden Point C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 21:34 0.31 21-9 0.49-0.33
27 Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 21:06 0.07 13-11 0.39-0.68
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 12:54 0.07 9-13 0.15-0.63
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 0 0 -1 4 2 1 18:41 0.15 19-14 0.57-0.83
43 Darren Raddysh D 0 0 0 2 2 4 1 27:28 0.26 26-11 0.99-0.50
46 Scott Sabourin R 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 08:20 5-6 0.06-0.33
72 Declan Carlile D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 17:38 0.08 15-15 0.37-0.72
78 Emil Lilleberg D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 23:31 0.05 21-17 0.57-0.75
90 Corey Perry R 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 10:49 0.20 11-8 0.40-0.46
93 Gage Goncalves C 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 19:58 0.15 21-8 0.77-0.21
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy W 27 25 2 72:14 2.72 +0.72