Game

Canadiens at Lightning

Canadiens 2, Lightning 1 · first star Jakub Dobes (0 GA, .966 SV%).

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

Montreal Canadiens 2 at Tampa Bay Lightning 1

Canadiens MTL

2 FINAL 1

Lightning TBL

Playoffs Sunday, May 3, 2026 · 6:00 PM ET · Benchmark International Arena, Tampa · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Canadiens	1	0	1	2	9
Lightning	0	1	0	1	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Canadiens attack left, Lightning attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so a mark in a team's own end would be an attempt logged from there (none in this game). Boxscore shots on goal: MTL 9, TBL 29.

MTL in red TBL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Canadiens 9 shots on goal (2 goals, 14 missed, 17 blocked) attacking left; Lightning 29 shots on goal (1 goal, 12 missed, 15 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT
1st	4	1	18	9	0	16
2nd	0	0	5	12	1	20
3rd	5	1	17	8	0	20
Total	9	2	40	29	1	56

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MTL SOG	MTL G	TBL SOG	TBL G
Even strength	9	2	26	0
Power play	0	0	3	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Lightning took 58.3% of the shot attempts, and 56.6% of the 83 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 Lightning and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Canadiens hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Canadiens at Lightning
Period	TBL CF%	TBL FF%
1st	47.1	50.0
2nd	80.0	84.2
3rd	54.0	61.9
Game	58.3	64.1

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

Scoring summary

1st period

18:39 Nick Suzuki (1) Kaiden Guhle (3), Josh Anderson (1) · tip-in 1–0

2nd period

13:27 Dominic James (2) PP Charle-Edouard D'Astous (1), Gage Goncalves (2) · tip-in 1–1

3rd period

11:07 Alex Newhook (1) Lane Hutson (4), Kaiden Guhle (4) · bat 2–1

Three stars

Jakub Dobes MTL · G #75 · 0 GA, .966 SV%
Alex Newhook MTL · C #15 · 1 G, 0 A
Dominic James TBL · C #17 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	03:14	MTL	Mike Matheson	tripping	2	Anthony Cirelli
2nd	05:04	TBL	Brayden Point	holding	2	Alex Newhook
2nd	12:33	MTL	Kaiden Guhle	holding	2	Jake Guentzel
2nd	15:22	TBL	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
3rd	19:53	MTL	Mike Matheson	delaying game	2	—

Boxscore

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	2	2	+2	1	3	2	2	0.0	20:56
Alex Newhook #15	C	1	0	1	+1	1	1	1	0	0.0	16:09
Nick Suzuki #14	C	1	0	1	+2	3	3	3	0	46.2	22:48
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	1	1	+1	0	3	0	0	0.0	15:33
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	1	1	+2	0	1	0	0	0.0	23:27
Jake Evans #71	C	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	57.1	16:46
Kirby Dach #77	C	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	100.0	11:02
Phillip Danault #24	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	64.0	17:56
Alexandre Texier #85	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	11:15
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	21:25
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	06:48
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	0	0	+1	1	5	0	0	0.0	14:29
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	17:50
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	08:51
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0.0	22:39
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0.0	05:06
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	0.0	25:22
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0.0	18:37

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	29	28	1	.966	26/26	2/3	60:00

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Dominic James #17	C	1	0	1	-1	4	2	0	0	50.0	13:27
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	1	1	-1	3	1	1	0	0.0	14:33
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51	D	0	1	1	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	17:41
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	52.9	17:50
Brayden Point #21	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	50.0	15:06
Jake Guentzel #59	C	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	20.0	16:22
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	100.0	16:01
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	0	0	7	3	0	0.0	14:00
Brandon Hagel #38	L	0	0	0	-1	3	2	1	0	0.0	21:53
Nick Paul #20	L	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	0	45.5	12:38
Corey Perry #10	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	08:58
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	0	0	0	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	20:16
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	0	0	0	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	12:12
Darren Raddysh #43	D	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	0.0	26:07
Emil Lilleberg #78	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	15:42
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	17:18
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	22:12
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	16:17

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	L	9	7	2	.778	7/9	0/0	57:30

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.