Tampa Bay Lightning

East 1st Round · Game 7 · Best of 7

Past match

Montreal Canadiens won.

Tampa Bay Lightning lost to the Montreal Canadiens

48-24-10, 106 PTS 2 – 1

50-26-6, 106 PTS

Final · Sun, May 3

Series: MTL wins 4-3

Game Details

Benchmark International Arena (Tampa) · 19,092 fans · TNT, truTV, The Spot - MTN, HBO Max View tournament bracket →

Recap

Canadiens outlast Lightning 2-1 in Game 7 to win thrilling 1st-round series

Alex Newhook broke a tie with 8:53 left and the Montreal Canadiens outlasted the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 on Game 7 on Sunday night to end the thrilling first-round series.

Recap via ESPN

Benchmark International Arena · Tampa

Line Score

	1	2	3	T
MTL	1	0	1	2
TB	0	1	0	1

Game Leaders

Montreal Canadiens

Nick Suzuki · 1Goals
Kaiden Guhle · 2Assists
Kaiden Guhle · 2Points

Tampa Bay Lightning

Dominic James · 1Goals
CD Charle-Edouard D'Astous · 1Assists
Dominic James · 1Points

2026-27 Atlantic Division Standings

Team	W	L	OTL	Pts
Boston	2	1	0	4
Florida	1	0	2	4
Montreal	1	0	1	3
Ottawa	1	0	0	2
Buffalo	1	1	0	2
Tampa Bay	1	1	0	2
Toronto	1	2	0	2
Detroit	0	2	0	0

Scoring

3rd 11:07

Alex Newhook Goal (1) Batted, assists: Lane Hutson (4), Kaiden Guhle (4)2–1

2nd 13:27

PPG Dominic James Goal (2) Tip-In, assists: Charle-Edouard D'Astous (1), Gage Goncalves (2)1–1

1st 18:39

Nick Suzuki Goal (1) Tip-In, assists: Kaiden Guhle (3), Josh Anderson (1)1–0

Team Stats

Montreal CanadiensTampa Bay Lightning

Shots & Puck

9 Shots on Goal 29

13 Blocked Shots 15

43 Hits 30

53.3 Faceoff % 46.7

4 Takeaways 4

12 Giveaways 12

Special Teams

0/2 Power Play 1/3

0 Short-Handed Goals 0

6 Penalty Minutes 4

Box Score

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV
J. Anderson	0	1	1	0	15:33	3	0	0	0:00	0:41	14:52	22	0	0	1	0.0	0
Z. Bolduc	0	0	0	0	8:51	2	1	0	0:02	0:00	8:49	12	1	0	0	0.0	0
C. Caufield	0	0	1	1	14:29	5	0	0	3:00	0:00	11:29	15	3	0	0	0.0	1
K. Dach	0	0	0	0	11:02	4	1	0	0:45	0:00	10:17	14	0	2	0	100.0	0
P. Danault	0	0	0	0	17:56	3	0	0	0:00	0:40	17:16	22	0	16	9	64.0	0
I. Demidov	0	0	0	0	17:50	1	1	0	3:39	0:00	14:11	21	0	0	0	0.0	0
J. Evans	0	0	0	0	16:46	4	0	0	0:00	2:11	14:35	19	0	8	6	57.1	0
B. Gallagher	0	0	0	0	6:48	0	0	0	0:00	0:00	6:48	8	0	0	0	0.0	0
A. Newhook	1	0	1	1	16:09	1	1	0	0:00	0:43	15:26	18	0	0	5	0.0	1
J. Slafkovsky	0	0	1	1	21:25	1	0	1	3:41	0:00	17:44	21	2	0	0	0.0	0
N. Suzuki	1	0	2	3	22:48	3	3	0	3:50	1:28	17:30	26	1	6	7	46.2	1
A. Texier	0	0	0	1	11:15	1	0	1	0:00	0:00	11:15	17	0	0	0	0.0	0

Defense

Player	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV	PN
A. Carrier	0	0	1	22:39	0	2	1	0	0:00	2:33	20:06	29	1	3	0
N. Dobson	0	0	0	18:37	0	4	2	1	0:19	0:00	18:18	25	3	3	0
K. Guhle	2	2	1	20:56	2	3	2	0	0:00	1:31	19:25	27	1	0	1
L. Hutson	1	2	0	23:27	0	1	0	1	3:41	0:43	19:03	28	1	2	0
M. Matheson	0	0	0	25:22	4	1	1	0	0:13	0:54	24:15	28	1	0	2
J. Struble	0	0	0	5:06	0	4	0	0	0:00	0:00	5:06	6	0	0	0

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
J. Dobes	28	29	1	.966	60:00	26	2	0	0

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV	PN
O. Bjorkstrand	0	0	-1	3	12:12	0	0	1	0	0:06	0:00	12:06	23	2	0	1	0.0	0	0
A. Cirelli	0	0	-1	0	17:50	0	2	1	0	0:00	1:28	16:22	24	0	9	8	52.9	2	0
Z. Girgensons	0	0	0	0	14:00	0	7	3	0	0:00	2:25	11:35	17	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
G. Goncalves	0	1	-1	3	14:33	0	1	1	0	0:54	0:00	13:39	24	1	0	1	0.0	0	0
Y. Gourde	0	0	0	0	16:01	0	2	1	0	0:00	2:22	13:39	18	1	2	0	100.0	1	0
J. Guentzel	0	0	0	4	16:22	0	1	0	0	1:57	0:33	13:52	20	1	1	4	20.0	1	0
B. Hagel	0	0	-1	3	21:53	0	2	1	1	1:57	0:51	19:05	23	0	0	0	0.0	1	0
D. James	1	0	-1	4	13:27	0	2	0	1	0:54	0:00	12:33	23	0	2	2	50.0	1	0
N. Kucherov	0	0	-1	3	20:16	0	0	1	0	1:57	0:00	18:19	24	0	0	0	0.0	1	0
N. Paul	0	0	0	2	12:38	0	4	1	0	0:55	0:00	11:43	20	3	10	12	45.5	0	0
C. Perry	0	0	0	0	8:58	0	1	0	0	0:54	0:00	8:04	13	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
B. Point	0	0	0	2	15:06	2	1	0	0	1:57	0:00	13:09	22	1	4	4	50.0	0	1

Defense

Player	A	+/-	S	TOI	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV
E. Cernak	0	-1	0	17:18	0	1	1	0:00	2:30	14:48	26	1	0
C. D'Astous	1	-1	1	17:41	2	0	0	0:54	0:00	16:47	22	0	0
E. Lilleberg	0	0	1	15:42	2	1	0	0:00	1:16	14:26	21	0	0
R. McDonagh	0	0	1	16:17	1	1	1	0:00	2:29	13:48	22	0	1
J.J. Moser	0	-1	0	22:12	1	1	0	0:00	1:22	20:50	26	1	0
D. Raddysh	0	-1	2	26:07	1	1	0	1:57	0:04	24:06	25	1	4

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
A. Vasilevskiy	7	9	2	.778	57:30	7	0	0	0

Injury Report

Tampa Bay Lightning

Emil Lilleberg DOut
Yanni Gourde CInjured Reserve
Dominic James CInjured Reserve

Montreal Canadiens

Kaiden Guhle DInjured Reserve
Oliver Kapanen CDay-To-Day
Alexandre Carrier DDay-To-Day
Bryce Pickford DInjured Reserve
Lucas Condotta LWInjured Reserve

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