{"id":638111,"date":"2026-04-30T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/638111\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:33:08","slug":"canadiens-win-game-5-push-lightning-to-brink-in-eastern-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/638111\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens win Game 5, push Lightning to brink in Eastern 1st Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brendan Gallagher<\/a> and Kirby Dach<\/a> also scored for the Canadiens, who are the No. 3 seed in the Atlantic Division. Jakub Dobes<\/a>\u00a0made 38 saves, including 17 in the third.<\/p>\n

“The group right now is really dialed in, playing some really solid hockey,” said Gallagher, who was a healthy scratch in the first four games of the series. “It’s fun to be a part of.”<\/p>\n

Dominic James<\/a> and Jake Guentzel<\/a> scored for the Lightning, who are the No. 2 seed in the Atlantic. Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> made 21 saves.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t get the job done,” Tampa Bay forward Corey Perry<\/a> said. “We pushed, but it wasn’t there. It’s frustrating in our building, but luckily there’s a Game 6.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Texier made it 3-2 at 1:06. He took a stretch pass from Lane Hutson<\/a>, skated into the left face-off circle and scored with a wrist shot to the far side that deflected off of Vasilevskiy’s glove and into the net.<\/p>\n

“We played a more mature game,” Dobes said. “We experienced in the last game (a 3-2 home loss on Sunday) how to lose a lead, so I feel like today … we know how it feels, we know what to do and I’m really proud of our group. I feel like it was a good effort all around.”<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay pulled Vasilevskiy for an extra attacker with 2:33 left, but Dobes made 10 saves during that stretch to preserve the win.<\/p>\n

“It’s not an easy team to go that long 5-on-6 (against) and I thought we managed it pretty well,” Montreal coach Martin St. Louis said. “It wasn’t one thing I think, it was collectively we found a way to keep it out of our net.”<\/p>\n

Gallagher gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead at 3:00 of the first period. Alex Newhook<\/a> got his own rebound off the end boards and had the puck knocked away at the edge of the crease before Gallagher buried it from in front.<\/p>\n

“Just his presence, his energy, you know what he’s going to bring on the ice every time he puts on that sweater,” Montreal forward Josh Anderson<\/a> said of Gallagher. \u201cIt was exciting to see him get a goal on the first shift and give our team a boost.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Gallagher and Kirby Dach also scored for the Canadiens, who are the No. 3 seed in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-638111","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\/638111","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=638111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}