Game

Lightning at Canadiens

Lightning 3, Canadiens 2 · first star Brandon Hagel (2 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 3 at Montreal Canadiens 2

Lightning TBL

3 FINAL 2

Canadiens MTL

Playoffs Sunday, April 26, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Centre Bell, Montreal · TV ESPN · SN · CBC

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Lightning	0	1	2	3	20
Canadiens	0	2	0	2	18

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 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: TBL 20, MTL 18.

TBL in red MTL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Lightning 20 shots on goal (3 goals, 22 missed, 13 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 18 shots on goal (2 goals, 14 missed, 16 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	0	19	9	0	22
2nd	10	1	22	5	2	11
3rd	4	2	14	4	0	15
Total	20	3	55	18	2	48

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	13	2	9	1
Power play	7	1	9	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Lightning took 53.4% of the shot attempts, and 58.5% of the 53 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	53.7	50.0
2nd	33.3	34.6
3rd	51.7	45.0
Game	46.6	43.2

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

10:06 Zachary Bolduc (1) Kaiden Guhle (1), Alexandre Texier (2) · deflected 0–1
13:29 Cole Caufield (1) PP Nick Suzuki (4), Lane Hutson (2) · snap 0–2
19:06 Jake Guentzel (1) J.J. Moser (1), Darren Raddysh (1) · snap 1–2

3rd period

01:40 Brandon Hagel (5) PP Nikita Kucherov (4), Jake Guentzel (6) · snap 2–2
15:07 Brandon Hagel (6) Nikita Kucherov (5), J.J. Moser (2) · deflected 3–2

Three stars

Brandon Hagel TBL · L #38 · 2 G, 0 A
Jake Guentzel TBL · C #59 · 1 G, 1 A
Kaiden Guhle MTL · D #21 · 0 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	02:04	MTL	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
1st	07:22	TBL	Max Crozier	high sticking	2	Phillip Danault
1st	09:10	TBL	Yanni Gourde	cross checking	2	Mike Matheson
2nd	00:41	MTL	Josh Anderson	boarding	2	Ryan McDonagh
2nd	10:24	MTL	Alex Newhook	hooking	2	Ryan McDonagh
2nd	12:24	TBL	Jake Guentzel	slashing	2	Jakub Dobes
2nd	13:48	TBL	Zemgus Girgensons	roughing	2	Kirby Dach
2nd	13:48	TBL	Nick Paul	roughing	2	Arber Xhekaj
2nd	13:48	MTL	Kirby Dach	roughing	2	Zemgus Girgensons
2nd	13:48	MTL	Arber Xhekaj	roughing	2	Nick Paul
2nd	13:58	TBL	Darren Raddysh	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
2nd	18:05	MTL	Mike Matheson	slashing	2	Brayden Point
2nd	18:33	TBL	Brandon Hagel	slashing	2	Jake Evans
3rd	00:51	MTL	Oliver Kapanen	high sticking	2	Dominic James
3rd	10:44	MTL	Mike Matheson	high sticking	2	Jake Guentzel
3rd	11:33	MTL	Jake Evans	cross checking	2	Nikita Kucherov
3rd	17:27	TBL	Nikita Kucherov	slashing	2	Mike Matheson

Boxscore

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brandon Hagel #38	L	2	0	2	+1	3	2	1	2	0.0	25:34
Jake Guentzel #59	C	1	1	2	+1	2	1	0	2	20.0	22:40
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	0	2	2	+1	3	0	0	2	0.0	22:57
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	2	2	+1	1	0	2	0	0.0	19:33
Darren Raddysh #43	D	0	1	1	+1	3	2	1	2	0.0	25:18
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	0	0	0	+1	0	2	3	0	41.4	18:58
Brayden Point #21	C	0	0	0	+1	3	0	0	0	37.5	19:57
Dominic James #17	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	16.7	11:25
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	0.0	10:44
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	0.0	12:46
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	33.3	08:46
Nick Paul #20	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	66.7	07:33
Corey Perry #10	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	08:50
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	0.0	08:18
Emil Lilleberg #78	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	13:43
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	19:37
Max Crozier #24	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	2	0.0	11:54
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0.0	20:22

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	W	18	16	2	.889	8/9	8/9	60:00

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Cole Caufield #13	R	1	0	1	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	19:03
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	1	0	1	+1	2	3	0	0	0.0	11:53
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	1	1	-1	3	4	4	0	70.0	22:23
Alexandre Texier #85	L	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	12:44
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	1	1	0	1	11	2	0	0.0	22:48
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	1	1	-1	1	1	3	0	0.0	26:15
Alex Newhook #15	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	2	66.7	15:47
Jake Evans #71	C	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	2	62.5	15:49
Kirby Dach #77	C	0	0	0	+1	1	2	0	2	66.7	09:51
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0	07:32
Phillip Danault #24	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	61.5	15:02
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	18:46
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:29
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	0.0	13:18
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	0.0	21:24
Arber Xhekaj #72	D	0	0	0	+1	0	6	0	2	0.0	08:18
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	09:24
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	0	0	-1	2	3	2	4	0.0	23:08

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	L	20	17	3	.850	11/13	6/7	58:17

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.