{"id":641966,"date":"2026-05-02T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641966\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:03:08","slug":"montreal-canadiens-tampa-bay-lightning-scoreless-after-first-period-of-game-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641966\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning scoreless after first period of Game 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Montreal Canadiens<\/a> and Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> are scoreless after a high-paced first period in Game 6 of their first-round series.<\/p>\n

The Canadiens lead the best-of-seven series 3-2 and can advance to the second round with a victory.<\/p>\n

The teams came out of the gate trading chances with Canadiens forward Cole Caufield<\/a> firing a puck off the post in the early stages of the period.<\/p>\n

Josh Anderson<\/a> brought the physical play for Montreal, delivering a few big hits that got the crowd into the game.<\/p>\n

Ivan Demidov<\/a> had a great chance on a 2-on-1 late in the frame, but was not able to finish and open the scoring.<\/p>\n

Lightning forward Jake Guentzel<\/a> took the only penalty of the opening frame, going to the box for high sticking with 10 seconds left on the clock.<\/p>\n

The man advantage will carry over to the second period.<\/p>\n

Jakub Dobes<\/a> turned away all nine shots he faced in goal for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n

Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> made seven saves for the Lightning.<\/p>\n

The series continues to be tightly contested as all five games so far have been decided by one goal, including the first three in overtime.<\/p>\n

If the Canadiens are victorious in Game 6, they will advance to face the winner of the series between the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> and Boston Bruins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If the Lightning are able to force the series the distance, Game 7 will take place on Sunday at Benchmark International Arena in Tampa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning are scoreless after a high-paced first period in Game 6 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[712,49,48,2338,78846,95645],"class_list":["post-641966","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\/641966","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=641966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}