{"id":641869,"date":"2026-05-02T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641869\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:02:10","slug":"game-6-liveblog-chris-nilan-carries-torch-for-canadiens-vs-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641869\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 6 Liveblog: Chris Nilan carries torch for Canadiens vs. Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadiens can punch their ticket to Round 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 on Friday night at the Bell Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Puck drops at 7 p.m. (CBC, Sportsnet, TVA Sports, TSN Radio 690, 98.5 FM).<\/p>\n<p>Montreal leads the first-round, best-of-seven series 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the keys to the game:<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to this page for updates and game highlights throughout the evening. You can also keep the conversation going over on our livestream on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HabsInsideOut\/streams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hockey Inside Out YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>First Period: Knuckles carries torch<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Dobes nearly coughed up the puck behind the net to Yanni Gourde, but the Lightning forward wiped out on the wraparound attempt. Cole Caufield nearly broke his even-strength drought but hit the post.<\/p>\n<p>After Yvon Cournoyer and Serge Savard did the honour, it was Chris Nilan\u2019s turn to carry the torch into the Bell Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadiens can punch their ticket to Round 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-641869","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\/641869","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=641869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}