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Tampa Bay Lightning at Montréal Canadiens

1st Round, Game 3 · Apr 24, 2026 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Tampa Bay Lightning 2 17
Montréal Canadiens 3 29

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:53 MTL Alexandre Texier (1) Zachary Bolduc (1), Kirby Dach (1) 0 - 1
07:42 TBL Brayden Point (1) PP Jake Guentzel (5), Nikita Kucherov (3) 1 - 1
2nd Period
04:47 TBL Brandon Hagel (4) Unassisted 2 - 1
12:43 MTL Kirby Dach (1) Arber Xhekaj (1) 2 - 2
Overtime
02:09 MTL Lane Hutson (2) Alexandre Texier (1), Zachary Bolduc (2) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:06 MTL Jakub Dobes Tripping 2
08:12 MTL Kirby Dach Tripping 2
12:23 TBL Nikita Kucherov Tripping 2
19:11 MTL Mike Matheson Hooking 2
2nd Period
04:47 MTL Jakub Dobes Unsportsmanlike conduct 2
04:47 TBL Erik Cernak Unsportsmanlike conduct 2
09:59 MTL Ivan Demidov High sticking 2
14:05 TBL Brandon Hagel Holding the stick 2
16:14 TBL Emil Lilleberg Hooking 2
19:29 TBL Darren Raddysh High sticking 2
3rd Period
08:50 MTL Josh Anderson High sticking 2
16:02 TBL Emil Lilleberg Roughing 2
16:02 TBL Zemgus Girgensons Roughing 2
16:02 MTL Phillip Danault Roughing 2
16:02 MTL Arber Xhekaj Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Tampa Bay Lightning 49 30 17 2 2.5 43.2
Montréal Canadiens 53 38 29 3 2.7 56.8

How the game went

12108642024Start2nd3rdOTMontréal Canadiens aheadTampa Bay Lightning 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 Montréal Canadiens had taken more, and below it and blue while Tampa Bay Lightning had.

Expected goals

Tampa Bay Lightning: 2.5 expected, 2 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 2.7 expected, 3 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTTBL goal, 7:42 of 1st, a 16% chanceTBL goal, 4:47 of 2nd, a 3% chanceMTL goal, 4:53 of 1st, a 14% chanceMTL goal, 12:43 of 2nd, a 4% chanceMTL goal, 2:09 of overtime, a 3% chanceMTL 2.7TBL 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

Tampa Bay Lightning
Montréal Canadiens

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.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nikita Kucherov · Anthony Cirelli · Brandon Hagel7:3468.879.31-0
Yanni Gourde · Zemgus Girgensons · Jake Guentzel6:3760.070.30-0
Brayden Point · Gage Goncalves · Dominic James4:4635.726.20-1
Anthony Cirelli · Brandon Hagel · Gage Goncalves2:1033.330.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Darren Raddysh · J.J. Moser12:3145.555.60-0
Ryan McDonagh · Erik Cernak11:4641.216.61-0
Emil Lilleberg · Declan Carlile6:4540.052.90-2

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
21 Brayden Point C 1 0 1 -2 0 1 1 18:22 0.16 10-14 0.43-0.97
38 Brandon Hagel L 1 0 1 1 2 2 1 24:58 0.11 16-7 0.43-0.15
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 24:17 0.18 8-7 0.64-0.61
86 Nikita Kucherov R 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 20:35 0.24 14-10 0.32-0.42
17 Dominic James C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 12:20 0.25 7-20 0.22-1.09
20 Nick Paul L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 07:58 0.16 2-8 0.02-0.28
27 Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:12 8-13 0.33-0.98
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 13:18 0.25 6-8 0.41-0.27
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 16:08 7-9 0.51-0.26
43 Darren Raddysh D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 3 26:17 0.07 13-17 0.67-0.69
49 Scott Sabourin R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 03:44 0.02 2-4 0.02-0.06
71 Anthony Cirelli C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 17:52 0.19 13-9 0.32-0.26
72 Declan Carlile D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 7 11:20 0.04 7-13 0.32-0.37
78 Emil Lilleberg D 0 0 0 -2 4 1 1 14:27 0.04 9-12 0.47-0.44
81 Erik Cernak D 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 17:54 0.09 9-13 0.15-0.75
90 Corey Perry R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 09:32 0.16 3-9 0.05-0.47
90 J.J. Moser D 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 25:27 0.43 16-18 0.60-0.70
93 Gage Goncalves C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 16:04 0.15 10-19 0.52-1.11
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy L 29 26 3 62:09 2.49 -0.51

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Juraj Slafkovský9:1750.079.90-0
Phillip Danault · Josh Anderson · Jake Evans8:1462.591.30-0
Alex Newhook · Oliver Kapanen · Ivan Demidov7:5350.019.20-0
Alexandre Texier · Kirby Dach · Zachary Bolduc6:4371.472.43-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kaiden Guhle · Lane Hutson13:1738.550.71-1
Mike Matheson · Alexandre Carrier12:4864.390.90-0
Jayden Struble · Arber Xhekaj8:0683.393.42-0

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
77 Kirby Dach C 1 1 2 3 2 2 1 11:32 0.39 11-4 0.93-0.32
85 Alexandre Texier L 1 1 2 3 0 1 1 11:29 0.14 13-6 0.95-0.43
76 Zachary Bolduc R 0 2 2 3 0 3 1 12:19 0.42 14-8 0.93-0.43
48 Lane Hutson D 1 0 1 0 0 2 3 26:40 0.08 14-20 0.76-0.78
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 1 1 2 2 2 8 10:40 0.07 16-3 0.68-0.05
8 Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 24:36 0.08 12-11 0.54-0.50
13 Cole Caufield R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 17:37 0.16 7-8 0.24-0.09
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 21:11 0.07 12-11 0.44-0.35
15 Alex Newhook C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 17:51 0.08 9-9 0.23-0.54
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 14:51 0.38 13-7 0.66-0.04
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 18:08 0.07 8-7 0.24-0.06
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 21:44 10-20 0.70-1.10
24 Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 -1 2 3 0 15:18 0.20 13-7 0.66-0.07
38 Jayden Struble D 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 09:58 0.01 19-5 0.71-0.11
45 Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 23:25 0.04 12-7 0.49-0.08
71 Jake Evans C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 16:18 0.05 11-10 0.46-0.10
91 Oliver Kapanen C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:35 7-8 0.12-0.69
93 Ivan Demidov R 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 17:32 0.49 9-9 0.15-0.69
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
75 Jakub Dobes W 17 15 2 61:34 2.32 +0.32