{"id":236489,"date":"2026-04-18T02:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236489\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:57:26","slug":"round-1-schedule-of-stanley-cup-playoffs-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236489\/","title":{"rendered":"Round 1 schedule of Stanley Cup Playoffs announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2013 We already knew the who, but now we know the where and when: the schedule for the Canadiens\u2019 first-round playoff series against the Tampa Bay Lightning is now out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rematch of the 2021 Stanley Cup Final gets underway on Sunday, April 19 at Benchmark International Arena, with Game 2 scheduled for Tuesday, April 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The series will then shift to Montreal for Games 3 and 4 on Friday, April 24 and Sunday, April 26, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If necessary, Game 5 will take place on Wednesday, April 29 in Tampa, Game 6 on Friday, May 1 back at the Bell Centre, and Game 7 on Sunday, May 3 at Benchmark International Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more info on postseason initiatives in Montreal, visit the team\u2019s official Playoff Central page <a href=\"https:\/\/series.canadiens.com\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 We already knew the who, but now we know the where and when: the schedule for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-236489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236489","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=236489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}