{"id":257061,"date":"2026-05-03T22:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257061\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:50:12","slug":"lightning-host-the-canadiens-in-game-7-of-the-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257061\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning host the Canadiens in game 7 of the first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (AP) &#8211; The Montreal Canadiens visit the Tampa Bay Lightning in game seven of the first round of the NHL Playoffs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The teams met Friday for the 11th time this season. The Lightning won 1-0 in overtime in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI like where this team is,\u201d Jon Cooper, Tampa Bay Lightning head coach, said. \u201cI\u2019ve actually loved this team all year. I just think we\u2019ve grown during this series. I think our game\u2019s gotten better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tampa Bay has a 19-10-3 record in Atlantic Division games and a 50-26-6 record overall. The Lightning have a +57 scoring differential, with 286 total goals scored and 229 allowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Montreal is 48-24-10 overall and 19-10-3 against the Atlantic Division. The Canadiens are seventh in league play with 279 total goals (averaging 3.4 per game). <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) &#8211; The Montreal Canadiens visit the Tampa Bay Lightning in game seven of the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-257061","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\/257061","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=257061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}