The Tampa Bay Lightning have evened the series.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay overcame a 2-0 deficit to hand the Montreal Canadiens a 3-2 loss on Sunday at the Bell Centre and even their First Round series 2-2.<\/p>\n
The teams played a scoreless first period before Montreal took a 2-0 advantage midway through the second frame on a goal from Zachary Bolduc and a power-play score from Cole Caufield.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay halved the disadvantage in the final minute of the second period on a Jake Guentzel tap-in at the net during 4-on-4 play and then got a pair of third-period goals from Brandon Hagel for the win.<\/p>\n
Hagel joined Guentzel, JJ Moser and Nikita Kucherov with two points apiece, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 16 saves in the win.<\/p>\n
The series continues with Game 5 this Wednesday at Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n
Scoring Summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
None.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: MTL 9, TBL 6<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
MTL 1, TBL 0<\/p>\n
10:06 Zachary Bolduc (1) – Kaiden Guhle, Alexandre Texier<\/p>\n
Montreal got the lead when Samuel Bolduc powered to the net on a rush chance and the puck rolled up a stick in front of the net.<\/p>\n
MTL 2, TBL 0<\/p>\n
13:29 Cole Caufield (1) – Nick Suzuki, Lane Hutson – PP<\/p>\n
The Canadiens extended their lead with a tap-in at the net on the power play.<\/p>\n
MTL 2, TBL 1<\/p>\n
19:07 Jake Guentzel (1) – JJ Moser, Darren Raddysh<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay cut into their deficit in the final minute of the second period with a Jake Guentzel 4-on-4 chance at the left post following a pass from JJ Moser.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 10, MTL 5<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
MTL 2, TBL 2<\/p>\n
1:40 Brandon Hagel (5) – Nikita Kucherov, Guentzel – PP<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel scored at the netfront for the tying goal, tapping home a power-play feed from Nikita Kucherov atop the blue paint.<\/p>\n
TBL 3, MTL 2<\/p>\n
15:07 Hagel (6) – Kucherov, Moser<\/p>\n
Hagel\u2019s second goal of the game came as the game-winner, this one when Kucherov\u2019s shot went off him in front of the net.<\/p>\n
Total shots: TBL 20, MTL 18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning have evened the series. Tampa Bay overcame a 2-0 deficit to hand the Montreal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-247848","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\/247848","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=247848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}