Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 4 on Friday:<\/p>\n
When: Friday, May 1 – 7 p.m. ET Lines from Wednesday’s game (subject to change) Defensemen Goaltenders Friday’s Matchup Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game The Road Ahead ( *\u00a0if necessary)<\/p>\n Game 7: Lightning vs. Canadiens – Sunday, May 3*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 4 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-253815","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\/253815","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=253815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Where: Bell Centre – Montr\u00e9al, QC
TV Coverage:\u00a0The Spot – Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)
Stream:\u00a0TampaBayLightning<\/a>.com\/StreamNow<\/a>
Radio coverage:\u00a0102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>,\u00a0Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a><\/p>\n
Forwards
Brandon Hagel – Brayden Point – Nikita Kucherov
Yanni Gourde – Anthony Cirelli – Jake Guentzel
Gage Goncalves – Dominic James – Oliver Bjorkstrand
Zemgus Girgensons – Conor Geekie – Corey Perry\u00a0<\/p>\n
JJ Moser – Darren Raddysh
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Emil\u00a0Lilleberg – Max Crozier<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n
The Tampa Bay Lightning play in a must-win Game 6 on Friday at the Bell Centre in Montreal as they look to force a Game 7 in their First Round Stanley Cup Playoffs matchup against the Montreal Canadiens…The teams traded overtime losses in the first three games of the series for a 2-1 Canadiens advantage, but the Lightning won Game 4 in 3-2 fashion before Montreal took Game 5 by the same score…Tampa Bay is 14-10 all-time in the playoffs versus the Canadiens…Jake Guentzel leads the team in scoring so far this postseason with 2-6\u20148 in five games, followed by Brandon Hagel\u2019s 6-1\u20147…Andrei Vasilevskiy is 2-3 with an .880 save percentage in the series…Nikita Kucherov is the franchise\u2019s career playoff scoring leader against Montreal with 11-8\u201419 in 18 games, while Vasilevskiy carries a 6-4 career record and .912 save percentage versus the team into Game 6.<\/p>\n
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