{"id":225747,"date":"2026-04-10T02:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225747\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:36:07","slug":"recap-canadiens-2-lightning-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225747\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Canadiens 2, Lightning 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning were find a tying goal late, but the Canadiens had a response of their own to take a 2-1 win over the Bolts on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay is now 48-25-6 this season.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Caufield gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead with a shot in the right faceoff circle in the second period, but Darren Raddysh tied the game for Tampa Bay with the Lightning net empty on a one-timer in the closing minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens ended the game with a Juraj Slafkovsky goal with 1:04 left.<\/p>\n<p>Nikita Kucherov and Gage Goncalves had assists for Tampa Bay, and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 19 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay will wrap up the final road trip of the regular season on Saturday with a 12:30 p.m. game against the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring summary<br \/>First period<br \/>None.<\/p>\n<p>Shots on goal: MTL 8, TBL 3<\/p>\n<p>Second period<br \/>MTL 1, TBL 0<br \/>6:30 Cole Caufield (50) &#8211; Nick Suzuki, Juraj Slafkovsky<br \/>The home team was first to score with Cole\u00a0Caufield\u2019s shot off the rush from the right faceoff dot.<\/p>\n<p>Shots on goal: MTL 8, TBL 7<\/p>\n<p>Third period<br \/>MTL 1, TBL 1<br \/>18:09 Darren\u00a0Raddysh (22) &#8211; Nikita Kucherov, Gage Goncalves<br \/>A one-timer from\u00a0defenseman Darren Raddysh tied the game late while at 6-on-5.<\/p>\n<p>MTL 2, TBL 1<br \/>18:56\u00a0Slafkovsky (30) &#8211; Suzuki<br \/>Montreal retook the lead with just over a minute remaining on a\u00a0netfront chance for Juraj Slafkovsky following a turnover.<\/p>\n<p>Total shots: MTL 21, TBL 18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning were find a tying goal late, but the Canadiens had a response of their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-225747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}