The Lightning forced the deciding game in the best-of-7 series with a 1-0 overtime win in Game 6 at Bell\u00a0Centre on Friday.<\/p>\n
The winner of the game will play the Buffalo Sabres, who defeated the Boston Bruins 4-1 in Game 6 on Friday to advance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether you\u2019re in the street playing with everyone or in (the house) it\u2019s Game 7 in the playoffs,” Tampa Bay forward Jake Guentzel said. “This is what we all dream about. I\u2019ve played in a couple and there\u2019s nothing better, especially at home. Obviously it\u2019s going to be an electric atmosphere and we can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lightning are 7-3 in Game 7s, including 4-1 at home. They won their most recent, 2-1 at the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2022 first round. The Canadiens are 15-9, including 7-6 on the road. They won their most recent, 3-1 against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2021 first round. Montreal has won its past two road Game 7s and five of its past six winner-take-all games away from home.<\/p>\n
Forwards Brendan Gallagher<\/a>\u00a0(2-0) and Phillip Danault<\/a>\u00a0(1-1) have each played in two Game 7s. Gallagher has one goal and two assists, and is the only player on the roster with a goal in Game 7.<\/p>\n Montreal goalies Jakub Dobes<\/a> and Jacob Fowler<\/a>\u00a0have not played in a Game 7 and Martin St. Louis has not coached in one.<\/p>\n Lightning forward Corey Perry<\/a>\u00a0is 5-6 in Game 7 with six points (four goals, two assists). Defenseman Ryan McDonagh<\/a>\u00a0is 8-2. Forward Nikita Kucherov<\/a>\u00a0is 4-2 with no points, and defenseman Victor Hedman<\/a>, who has not played in the series, is 5-3. Forward Oliver Bjorkstrand<\/a> has three goals in two Game 7s, and forward Yanni Gourde<\/a>\u00a0has four points (one goal, three assists) in four Game 7s.<\/p>\n Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> has played in four Game 7s, going 2-2 with a 1.51 goals-against average and .945 save percentage. Backup Jonas Johansson<\/a>\u00a0has never played in one.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper is 4-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lightning forced the deciding game in the best-of-7 series with a 1-0 overtime win in Game 6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-255730","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\/255730","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=255730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}