{"id":626757,"date":"2026-04-25T01:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626757\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:37:17","slug":"montreal-canadiens-tampa-bay-lightning-tied-after-first-period-of-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626757\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning tied after first period of Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexandre Texier<\/a> and Brayden Point<\/a> traded goals as the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> and Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> head into the first intermission tied 1-1 in Game 3 of their first-round series.<\/p>\n

The teams split the first two games in Tampa Bay, both in overtime. <\/p>\n

Texier scored the game\u2019s first goal at 4:53 of the period for his first of the playoffs, taking a pass from Zachary Bolduc<\/a> and wristing it over the shoulder of Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> to earn the 1-0 lead. <\/p>\n

Point found the equalizer on the power play just under three minutes later, as he wired a one-timer past Jakub Dobes<\/a> for his first of the postseason to tie the game. <\/p>\n

After scoring the opening goal, the Canadiens took back-to-back tripping penalties but were able to kill off the second, keeping the game even midway through the first. <\/p>\n

The Canadiens got their own chance on the power play but were unable to find the go-ahead goal with the man advantage.<\/p>\n

Habs forward Kirby Dach<\/a> almost restored the one-goal lead very late in the period, but his shot ricocheted off the post. <\/p>\n

The opening frame got physical quickly, with both teams throwing several big checks, getting the raucous Bell Centre crowd into the game early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexandre Texier and Brayden Point traded goals as the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning head into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[712,49,48,2338,78846,95645],"class_list":["post-626757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","tag-tampa-bay-lightning-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626757","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=626757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}