{"id":574643,"date":"2026-04-01T07:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/574643\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:08:08","slug":"caufield-canadiens-top-lightning-for-6th-straight-win-to-gain-in-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/574643\/","title":{"rendered":"Caufield, Canadiens top Lightning for 6th straight win to gain in Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guentzel tied it 1-1 at 13:41 with a wraparound shot that got past Dobes short side after faking a shot on the far side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They obviously defended well and the goalie had some big stops for them too,&#8221; Lightning defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ryan-mcdonagh-8474151\" title=\"Ryan McDonagh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan McDonagh<\/a>\u00a0said. &#8220;We had a lot of shots in the third. It took us 40 minutes to really get some sustained offense and sustained O-zone time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Caufield put the Canadiens ahead 2-1 at 12:49 of the second period after Slafkovsky raced down the left side, drawing the attention of the defense, and sent a pass to the slot to Caufield, who scored into an open net for his 300th NHL point.<\/p>\n<p>Matheson scored into an empty net at 17:55 of the third period to make it 3-1 and Suzuki added another empty-net goal 59 seconds later for the 4-1 final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We gave ourselves a chance to at least get points out of the game; I can&#8217;t say we gave ourselves a chance to win,&#8221; Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. &#8220;We had the puck a lot in the third period. It&#8217;s going to say we had 37 shots; we probably should&#8217;ve had 57. I didn&#8217;t think we created enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: Caufield (165 goals, 135 assists in 360 games) became the fastest Canadiens player to reach the 300-point mark since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mark-recchi-8450725\" title=\"Mark Recchi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Recchi<\/a>\u00a0(316 games on Dec. 29, 1998). \u2026 Montreal has allowed one goal or fewer in four straight games for the fifth time since 2005-06. The others: 2016-17, 2014-15 (twice) and 2012-13. &#8230; Kucherov was minus-3 with six shots on goal in 23:10 of ice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guentzel tied it 1-1 at 13:41 with a wraparound shot that got past Dobes short side after faking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-574643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}