Game

Lightning at Canadiens

Canadiens 3, Lightning 2 in overtime · first star Lane Hutson (1 G, 0 A).

2025-26 Stanley Cup Playoffs · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Tampa Bay Lightning 2 at Montreal Canadiens 3

Lightning TBL

2 FINAL/OT 3

Canadiens MTL

Playoffs Friday, April 24, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Centre Bell, Montreal · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Lightning	1	1	0	0	2	17
Canadiens	1	1	0	1	3	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Lightning attack left, Canadiens attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 4 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: TBL 17, MTL 29.

TBL in red MTL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Lightning 17 shots on goal (2 goals, 13 missed, 20 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 29 shots on goal (3 goals, 9 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT
1st	6	1	17	7	1	16
2nd	7	1	15	13	1	18
3rd	4	0	18	8	0	15
OT	0	0	0	1	1	3
Total	17	2	50	29	3	52

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	TBL SOG	TBL G	MTL SOG	MTL G
Even strength	11	1	22	3
Power play	6	1	5	0
Short-handed	0	0	2	0

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 51.0% of the shot attempts, and 55.4% of the 74 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Canadiens and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Lightning hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Lightning at Canadiens
Period	MTL CF%	MTL FF%
1st	48.5	52.0
2nd	54.5	54.2
3rd	45.5	61.1
OT	100.0	100.0
Game	51.0	55.9

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

04:53 Alexandre Texier (1) Zachary Bolduc (1), Kirby Dach (1) · snap 0–1
07:42 Brayden Point (1) PP Jake Guentzel (5), Nikita Kucherov (3) · snap 1–1

2nd period

04:47 Brandon Hagel (4) Unassisted · snap 2–1
12:43 Kirby Dach (1) Arber Xhekaj (1) · snap 2–2

Overtime

02:09 Lane Hutson (2) Alexandre Texier (1), Zachary Bolduc (2) · slap 2–3

Three stars

Lane Hutson MTL · D #48 · 1 G, 0 A
Kirby Dach MTL · C #77 · 1 G, 1 A
Brandon Hagel TBL · L #38 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	06:06	MTL	Jakub Dobes	tripping	2	Yanni Gourde
1st	08:12	MTL	Kirby Dach	tripping	2	Dominic James
1st	12:23	TBL	Nikita Kucherov	tripping	2	Alexandre Carrier
1st	19:11	MTL	Mike Matheson	hooking	2	Brandon Hagel
2nd	04:47	MTL	Jakub Dobes	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Nikita Kucherov
2nd	04:47	TBL	Erik Cernak	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Jakub Dobes
2nd	09:59	MTL	Ivan Demidov	high sticking	2	Ryan McDonagh
2nd	14:05	TBL	Brandon Hagel	holding the stick	2	Cole Caufield
2nd	16:14	TBL	Emil Lilleberg	hooking	2	Alex Newhook
2nd	19:29	TBL	Darren Raddysh	high sticking	2	Jake Evans
3rd	08:50	MTL	Josh Anderson	high sticking	2	Declan Carlile
3rd	16:02	TBL	Emil Lilleberg	roughing	2	Arber Xhekaj
3rd	16:02	TBL	Zemgus Girgensons	roughing	2	Phillip Danault
3rd	16:02	MTL	Phillip Danault	roughing	2	Zemgus Girgensons
3rd	16:02	MTL	Arber Xhekaj	roughing	2	Emil Lilleberg

Boxscore

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brayden Point #21	C	1	0	1	-2	1	1	0	0	66.7	18:22
Brandon Hagel #38	L	1	0	1	+1	2	1	0	2	0.0	24:58
Jake Guentzel #59	C	0	1	1	-1	0	1	0	0	20.0	24:17
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	2	0.0	20:35
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	60.9	17:52
Dominic James #17	C	0	0	0	-2	2	2	1	0	0.0	12:20
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	0	0.0	16:04
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	44.4	16:08
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	2	0.0	13:18
Nick Paul #20	L	0	0	0	-1	1	3	1	0	100.0	07:58
Corey Perry #10	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	09:32
Scott Sabourin #46	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	03:44
Darren Raddysh #43	D	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	2	0.0	26:17
Declan Carlile #67	D	0	0	0	-2	0	7	2	0	0.0	11:20
Emil Lilleberg #78	D	0	0	0	-2	1	1	1	4	0.0	14:27
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	3	2	0.0	17:54
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	0	0	0	4	2	3	0	0.0	25:27
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	20:12

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	L	29	26	3	.897	19/22	5/5	62:09

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Kirby Dach #77	C	1	1	2	+3	2	1	0	2	42.9	11:32
Alexandre Texier #85	L	1	1	2	+3	1	1	0	0	0.0	11:29
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	2	2	+3	3	1	2	0	0.0	12:19
Lane Hutson #48	D	1	0	1	0	2	3	4	0	0.0	26:40
Arber Xhekaj #72	D	0	1	1	+2	2	8	0	2	0.0	10:40
Alex Newhook #15	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	55.6	17:51
Jake Evans #71	C	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	66.7	16:18
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	35.7	21:11
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	08:35
Phillip Danault #24	C	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	2	20.0	15:18
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0.0	18:08
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	17:37
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	2	0.0	17:32
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	0	1	4	1	2	0.0	14:51
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0.0	23:25
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	+2	1	2	0	0	0.0	09:58
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	0.0	21:44
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	2	0.0	24:36

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	17	15	2	.882	10/11	5/6	61:34

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.