The 2025-26 Tampa Bay Lightning season came to an end on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Lightning fell 2-1 to the Montreal Canadiens in Game 7 of their first round series.<\/p>\n
Montreal scored to make it 1-0 late in the first period when a Nick Suzuki redirection that was heading wide of the net bounced into the net off of a Lightning defender\u2019s shinpad.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay rookie Dominic James then tied the game with 6:33 to play in the second period on a tipped point shot during a power play.<\/p>\n
Montreal got the 2-1 goal on a midair whack at the goal line in the third period for the winner.<\/p>\n
Scoring Summary
First period
MTL 1, TBL 0
18:39 Nick Suzuki (1) – Kaiden Guhle, Josh Anderson
Montreal got a lucky bounce to take the first lead of the night when a redirection by Nick Suzuki bounced off the leg of a Lightning defender and into the net late in the first period.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 9, MTL 4<\/p>\n
Second period
MTL 1, TBL 1
13:27 Dominic James (2) –\u00a0Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous, Gage Goncalves – PP
The Lightning tied the game on the power play with a Dominic James tip in front of the Montreal net following\u00a0Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous\u2019 shot from the point.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 12, MTL 0<\/p>\n
Third period
MTL 2, TBL 1
11:07 Alex\u00a0Newhook (1) – Lane Hutson, Guhle
Montreal regained their advantage in the 11th minute of the third period. Forward Alex\u00a0Newhook batted a puck out of midair below the goal line, and the puck bounced in for a 2-1 score.<\/p>\n
Total shots: TBL 29, MTL 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-26 Tampa Bay Lightning season came to an end on Sunday.\u00a0 The Lightning fell 2-1 to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-257178","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\/257178","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=257178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}