{"id":637741,"date":"2026-04-30T03:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637741\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:31:10","slug":"texier-breaks-3rd-period-tie-canadiens-beat-lightning-3-2-in-game-5-to-take-series-lead-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637741\/","title":{"rendered":"Texier breaks 3rd-period tie, Canadiens beat Lightning 3-2 in Game 5 to take series lead | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777519870_754_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Montr\u00e9al Canadiens center Kirby Dach (77) celebrates with the bench after his goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning during the second period in Game 5 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series, Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo\/Chris O&#8217;Meara)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 29, 2026 | 7:01 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 (AP) \u2014 Alexandre Texier broke a tie 1:06 into the third period and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Wednesday night to take a 3-2 lead in the first-round series.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Jakub Dobes stopped 38 shots to help Montreal move within a victory of advancing for the first time since losing to the Lightning in the Stanley Cup Finals in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Gallagher got his first goal in his first game this series and Kirby Dach also scored for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>Game 6 is Friday night in Montreal, where the teams split Games 3 and 4. All five games have been decided by one goal, including overtime in the first three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montr\u00e9al Canadiens center Kirby Dach (77) celebrates with the bench after his goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2338,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-637741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-montreal","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637741","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=637741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}