{"id":615837,"date":"2026-04-20T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615837\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:45:08","slug":"slafkovsky-completes-hat-trick-in-ot-canadiens-defeat-lightning-in-game-1-of-eastern-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615837\/","title":{"rendered":"Slafkovsky completes hat trick in OT, Canadiens defeat Lightning in Game 1 of Eastern 1st Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson appeared to make it 2-0 at 10:43 of the second period when he tipped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mike-matheson-8476875\" title=\"Mike Matheson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Matheson<\/a>&#8216;s point shot from in front, but the goal was overturned after a video review determined Anderson hit the puck above the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>Raddysh tied it 1-1 with a power-play goal at 12:15. Kucherov fed a pass to Raddysh at the top of the left circle, where he put a one-timer by Dobes&#8217; blocker.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel gave Tampa Bay a 2-1 lead just 29 seconds later at 12:44, pouncing on a loose puck at the left of the net and lifting a backhand\u00a0to the glove side from in tight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of ups and downs and you&#8217;ve got to go out there and continue to play hockey,&#8221; Hagel said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t hate what we did a little bit 5-on-5, and we can take some positives, but at the end of the day, we&#8217;ve got to do better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Slafkovsky evened the score at 2-2 while on a power play at 19:36, scoring with a one-timer from the right circle that went over the outstretched glove of Vasilevskiy.<\/p>\n<p>Slafkovsky then put Montreal up 3-2 with his second power-play goal at 5:56, taking a pass from Caufield and sneaking a snap shot from the slot under Vasilevskiy&#8217;s left pad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been so good for us, and I feel like in the big moments he wants the puck,&#8221; Dobes said. &#8220;He&#8217;s a big-time player. I&#8217;m really proud of him and hopefully he&#8217;ll do the same thing on Tuesday.&#8221;\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anderson appeared to make it 2-0 at 10:43 of the second period when he tipped Mike Matheson&#8216;s point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-615837","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\/615837","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=615837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}