A handful of first-round series are nearing their end as the Stanley Cup playoffs continue. <\/p>\n
The night started with a Game 5 showdown between the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning. Here’s a look at what went down on Wednesday and a glance at Thursday’s schedule. <\/p>\n
Wednesday Round 1 Results<\/p>\n
Montreal Canadiens def. Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 (MTL leads series 3-2)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia Flyers def. Pittsburgh Penguins, 1-0 (Flyers win series 4-2)<\/p>\n
Utah Mammoth at Vegas Golden Knights, 10 p.m. ET (Series tied 2-2)<\/p>\n
Thursday Round 1 Schedule<\/p>\n
Dallas Stars vs. Minnesota Wild, 7:30 p.m. ET (MIN leads series 3-2)<\/p>\n
Edmonton Oilers vs. Anaheim Ducks, 10 p.m. ET (ANA leads series 3-2)<\/p>\n
Montreal Canadiens 3, Tampa Bay Lightning 2<\/p>\n
Every game between the Canadiens and Lightning has been a nailbiter up to this point, and Wednesday was no different. <\/p>\n
Montreal struck first with an early goal from Brendan Gallagher in the first period. <\/p>\n
Tampa Bay answered in the second with a goal from Dominic James, but the Canadiens regained the lead after Kirby Dach scored just seconds later. <\/p>\n
The two teams went into the third period tied after a goal from Jake Guentzel late in the second period. <\/p>\n
Alexandre Texier\u00a0scored to give Montreal the lead once again in the third period, and that goal proved to be the decider as Tampa Bay couldn’t answer down the stretch. <\/p>\n
The Canadiens will look to close out the series and move on to the second round on Friday. <\/p>\n
The Flyers are moving on after a defensive battle that ended in overtime. <\/p>\n
While neither team found the back of the net in the first 60 minutes, there was no shortage of drama between the in-state rivals. <\/p>\n
The defensive battle continued into overtime, as neither team could get a clean look at the goal. Pittsburgh’s Anthony Mantha had a close shot at the 10-minute mark, but a swarm of Flyers stepped in to prevent the Penguins from scoring off of a deflection. <\/p>\n
Cam York ultimately delivered as the hero for Philadelphia, scoring late in overtime to win it. <\/p>\n
After winning their first playoff series since 2020, the Flyers will face the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A handful of first-round series are nearing their end as the Stanley Cup playoffs continue. The night started…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-614532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}