{"id":620012,"date":"2026-04-22T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620012\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:20:08","slug":"montreal-canadiens-tampa-bay-lightning-tied-after-hotly-contested-first-period-of-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620012\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning tied after hotly-contested first period of Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> opened the scoring, but the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> found an answer on the power play as the sides are tied 1-1 after one period of their Game 2 clash.<\/p>\n

The first period featured a lot of jawing between the teams, with scrums forming after seemingly every whistle and physical play the flavour of the night.<\/p>\n

Brandon Hagel<\/a> scored for Tampa Bay, and Lane Hutson<\/a> scored the first playoff goal of his career for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n

Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> turned away nine of 10 shots for the Lightning, while Jakub Dobes<\/a> stopped five of six for Montreal.<\/p>\n

After the buzzer sounded at the end of the first period, the two sides broke out in a full-on brawl. Yanni Gourde<\/a> will start the second period in the penalty box, as the Lightning forward received the third roughing penalty of the game for the Lightning.<\/p>\n

A feisty first period continued with a second set of roughing penalties handed out late in the frame, as Hagel and Josh Anderson<\/a> got into a fight after a whistle that drew a large crowd.<\/p>\n

During the scrum, referees decided that Corey Perry<\/a> had gone too far and gave the Canadiens their first power play of the game on a double-minor for roughing at 14:20.<\/p>\n

Hutson found the opening marker for the Canadiens late in the power play on a shot from the point that fooled Vasilevskiy to even the score at 1-1.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay was awarded the game\u2019s first power play just past the halfway mark of the frame, when Arber Xhekaj<\/a> went a little too far in a scrum after the whistle and took a roughing penalty.<\/p>\n

After going 2-for-5 with the man advantage in the series opener on Sunday, Tampa Bay was unable to score on their first try in tonight\u2019s game – and it was the Habs who had the best scoring chance in a 2-on-1 short-handed rush.<\/p>\n

Hagel continued his torrid start to the series with the game\u2019s opening goal at the 8:40 mark – also on Tampa Bay\u2019s first shot on goal of the contest.<\/p>\n

A broken stick for a Habs player left the team undermanned on an even-strength play, and Hagel found a good spot to unleash a shot that banked in off the post to beat Dobes.<\/p>\n

Hagel scored twice in Sunday\u2019s series opener.<\/p>\n

The Canadiens controlled the pace of play through the first five minutes of the game, forcing Vasilevskiy<\/a> to make a couple of difficult saves early.<\/p>\n

Montreal owns a 1-0 series lead thanks to a Juraj Slafkovsky hat trick in Game 1 that included the overtime winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning opened the scoring, but the Montreal Canadiens found an answer on the power play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[712,49,48,2338,78846,95645],"class_list":{"0":"post-620012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-montreal","12":"tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","13":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-14"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620012","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=620012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}