{"id":685440,"date":"2026-05-22T02:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685440\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:16:08","slug":"montreal-canadiens-jump-out-to-big-lead-over-carolina-hurricanes-in-first-period-of-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685440\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens jump out to big lead over Carolina Hurricanes in first period of Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Montreal Canadiens<\/a> could not have asked for a better start as they lead the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> 4-1 after the first period of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final. <\/p>\n

Seth Jarvis<\/a> got the first goal of the series for the Hurricanes, while Cole Caufield<\/a>, Phillip Danault<\/a>, Alexandre Texier<\/a>, and Ivan Demidov<\/a> scored for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n

The question of rust surrounding the Hurricanes was answered quickly when Jarvis scored the game\u2019s first goal 33 seconds in off a pretty one-touch pass from Andrei Svechnikov<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Sebastian Aho<\/a> had the other assist for the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n

As they have done throughout the playoffs, the Canadiens answered quickly, when Juraj Slafkovsky caused a turnover in the offensive zone and found Caufield all alone in front for the equalizer, 27 seconds after Jarvis opened the scoring.<\/p>\n

Danault gave the Habs the lead just over three minutes later when he was sent in on a breakaway and beat Frederik Anderson five-hole for the 2-1 lead. <\/p>\n

Texier continued the early offensive onslaught at 8:11 of the period, when his strong forechecking effort led to a turnover, before Danault found the French sniper alone in the slot for his fourth of the postseason.<\/p>\n

Demidov put the exclamation point on the opening frame when Game 7 hero Alex Newhook<\/a> sent him in on a breakaway and the rookie made no mistake, slipping it past a sprawling Andersen for his third of the postseason. <\/p>\n

Nick Suzuki<\/a> and Alexandre Carrier<\/a> also earned assists for the Habs during the first period.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes are playing for the first time in 12 days after advancing with a pair of sweeps over the Ottawa Senators<\/a> and Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Montreal reached the NHL\u2019s final four after a pair of seven-game series wins against the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> and Buffalo Sabres<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Jakub Dobes<\/a> stopped 13-of-14 shots while Andersen made nine saves in the opening 20 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens could not have asked for a better start as they lead the Carolina Hurricanes 4-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[712,49,48,96396,2338,78846],"class_list":["post-685440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-hurricanes-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-12","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685440","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=685440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}