{"id":643418,"date":"2026-05-02T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643418\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:15:08","slug":"dach-a-breath-of-fresh-air-in-habs-bolts-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643418\/","title":{"rendered":"Dach a breath of fresh air in Habs-Bolts series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the youngest team in the playoffs, the Canadiens were considered underdogs in their first-round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>But the Canadiens showed that experience isn\u2019t everything against the Lightning, who made the playoffs for the ninth straight season, including back-to-back Stanley Cup wins in 2020 and \u201921.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HIO-32-Rectangle-Sticker-Landscape-17.png\" alt=\"Canadiens centre Kirby Dach celebrates his goal on Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy during the second period of Game 5 on Wednesday in Tampa.\" class=\"wp-image-100183140\"  \/>Canadiens centre Kirby Dach celebrates his goal on Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy during the second period of Game 5 on Wednesday in Tampa. Luis Santana \/ Tampa Bay Times<\/p>\n<p>In this Hockey Inside\/Out Show bonus episode, The Gazette\u2019s Stu Cowan is joined by former Canadiens teammates and 1986 Stanley Cup champions Chris Nilan, Rick Green and Brian Skrudland to discuss which players surprised them the most against Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>We will have one more bonus episode coming up soon, so you can look for that, and we\u2019ll be back next week with our Hockey Inside\/Out Show. If you haven\u2019t already done so, please subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HabsInsideOut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hockey Inside\/Out YouTube channel<\/a>. The Hockey Inside\/Out Show is also available on <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/663fB47gXxxQ7oqg24axaN\">Spotify <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/hockey-inside-out\/id1846419875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple Podcasts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the youngest team in the playoffs, the Canadiens were considered underdogs in their first-round series against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-643418","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\/643418","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=643418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}