{"id":625161,"date":"2026-04-24T08:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625161\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:24:48","slug":"nuts-bolts-game-3-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625161\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts & Bolts: Game 3 in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 3 on Friday:<\/p>\n

When: Friday, April 24 – 7 p.m. ET
Where: Bell Centre – Montr\u00e9al, QC
TV Coverage:\u00a0The Spot – Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)
Stream:\u00a0TampaBayLightning<\/a>.com\/StreamNow<\/a>
Radio coverage:\u00a0102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>,\u00a0Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a><\/p>\n

Lines from Tuesday’s game (subject to change)
Forwards
Gage\u00a0Goncalves – Brayden Point\u00a0– Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli – Jake Guentzel
Zemgus Girgensons – Yanni Gourde –\u00a0Nick Paul
Scott Sabourin – Dominic James – Corey Perry\u00a0<\/p>\n

Defensemen
JJ Moser – Darren Raddysh
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Declan Carlile\u00a0 – Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n

Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n

Friday’s Matchup
The Tampa Bay Lightning continue their First Round Stanley Cup Playoffs series by hitting the road to visit the Bell Centre for Game 3 against the Montreal Canadiens…Tampa Bay is 1-1 against the Canadiens after a 4-3 overtime loss in Game 1 and their 3-2 overtime win in Game 2…Forwards Brandon Hagel (3- 1\u20144) and Jake Guentzel (0-4\u20144) co-lead the Lightning in postseason scoring, while Nikita Kucherov has 1-2\u20143 through two games…Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy is now 1-1 with an .870 save percentage in his two starts…Tampa Bay went 2-2-0 against Montreal in 2025-26, winning 6-1 on Dec. 9 and 5-4 in a shotoout on Dec. 28 before falling 4-1 in March and 2-1 in April…Tampa Bay is 13-8 all-time against Montreal in the playoffs, including 5-4 on the road…Kucherov is the team\u2019s all-time playoff scoring leader against Montreal with 11-5\u201416 in 15 games…Vasilevskiy is 5-2-0 with a .919 save percentage across six career playoff starts against the Canadiens.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game
March & April Goal Puck Auction\u00a0
March and April goal pucks, scored by both Lightning players and opponents in the regular season, are up for auction!\u00a0 Bid now at TampaBaySports.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The Road Ahead ( *\u00a0if necessary)<\/p>\n

Game 4: Lightning at\u00a0Canadiens –\u00a0Sunday, April 26
\nGame 5: Lightning vs. Canadiens – Wednesday, April 29
\nGame 6: Lightning at Canadiens – Friday, May 1*
\nGame 7: Lightning vs. Canadiens – Sunday, May 3*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 3 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-625161","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\/625161","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=625161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}