{"id":254960,"date":"2026-05-02T04:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T04:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:14:09","slug":"game-6-recap-lightning-1-canadiens-0-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254960\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 6 Recap: Lightning 1, Canadiens 0 &#8211; OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bolts didn\u2019t back down, and now they&#8217;re coming home with a chance at a playoff series victory.<\/p>\n<p>The tightest First Round matchup of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs required overtime for the fourth time in six games on Friday, a night that ended as a 1-0 Bolts victory in Game 6 at the Bell Centre.<\/p>\n<p>There were a ton of scoring chances but only one score, this one from Gage Goncalves on the game winner in overtime when he buried a loose puck at the net.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy had to be sharp on Friday and brought his best, finishing with 30 saves and the shutout. Montreal goalie Jakub Dobes made 32 for Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring Summary<br \/>First period<br \/>None.<\/p>\n<p>Shots on goal: TBL 9, MTL 7<\/p>\n<p>Second period<br \/>None.<\/p>\n<p>Shots on goal: MTL 10, TBL 7<\/p>\n<p>Third period<br \/>None.<\/p>\n<p>Shots on goal: TBL 12, MTL 10<\/p>\n<p>Overtime<br \/>TBL 1, MTL 0<br \/>9:03 Gage\u00a0Goncalves (1) &#8211; Dominic James, Brandon Hagel<br \/>Goncalves accepted a pass at the net front and buried his second chance for the Lightning win.<\/p>\n<p>Total shots: TBL 33, MTL 30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bolts didn\u2019t back down, and now they&#8217;re coming home with a chance at a playoff series victory.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-254960","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\/254960","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=254960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}