{"id":686983,"date":"2026-05-22T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686983\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:55:08","slug":"canadiens-score-4-in-1st-period-defeat-hurricanes-in-game-1-of-east-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686983\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens score 4 in 1st period, defeat Hurricanes in Game 1 of East Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caufield tied it 1-1 just 27 seconds later, scoring with a wrist shot at the right hash marks off a\u00a0backhand feed from Slafkovsky below the goal line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of pressure and stuff (from Carolina), but I think we executed pretty well and used that to our advantage tonight,\u201d Caufield said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we were surprised by it. I think we were prepared. It\u2019s not going to get any easier than that, and we know we\u2019ve got to be better next game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Danault put Montreal ahead 2-1 at 4:04. He picked up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alexandre-carrier-8478851\" title=\"Alexandre Carrier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandre Carrier<\/a>\u2019s indirect pass off the left boards inside Montreal\u2019s offensive blue line and scored on a short breakaway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny time you give up five breakaways in the game there\u2019s something going on,\u201d Jarvis said. \u201cYou can\u2019t give a team with that much offensive skill that many chances and expect not to be burned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alexandre-texier-8480074\" title=\"Alexandre Texier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandre Texier<\/a> made it 3-1 at 8:11, receiving a pass from Danault in front for a one-timer past Andersen&#8217;s glove.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ivan-demidov-8484984\" title=\"Ivan Demidov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Demidov<\/a> scored off the rush to push the lead to 4-1 at 11:32. He took a backhand feed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alex-newhook-8481618\" title=\"Alex Newhook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Newhook<\/a>\u00a0in the neutral zone and scored on a breakaway, tucking the puck inside the left post on his forehand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey got to us early with that first shot, but I thought we were still confident in what we were doing,\u201d Suzuki said. \u201cCole scores the shift after, then (Danault, Texier and Demidov). When you&#8217;ve got a three-goal lead, you&#8217;ve got to win those.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caufield tied it 1-1 just 27 seconds later, scoring with a wrist shot at the right hash marks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-686983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}