The Canadiens\u2019 Game 1 win against the Lightning has dialed up the excitement a few more notches in Montreal, cranked the noise up plenty of decibels. Games 3 and 4 will light up Bell Centre on Friday and Sunday, the city and its fan base joyfully riding this wave.<\/p>\n
The last time the Lightning saw postseason action in Montreal was July 5, 2021, Tampa Bay on its way to a five-game Stanley Cup championship. A year and two days later, the\u00a0Canadiens would make Slafkovsky the No. 1 selection in the 2022 NHL draft.<\/p>\n
Facing elimination that 2021 night, the Canadiens forced one more game with a 3-2 overtime win, COVID-19 restrictions limiting Bell Centre attendance to 3,500.<\/p>\n
Both teams, and a power forward who dominated Game 1 on Sunday, can expect a much different building next weekend.<\/p>\n
Top photo: Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky (l.) celebrates one of his three goals with linemate Cole Caufield in Game 1 of Montreal\u2019s 4-3 overtime win against the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadiens\u2019 Game 1 win against the Lightning has dialed up the excitement a few more notches in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-616840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616840","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=616840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}