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Canadiens Top Lightning in Third Straight OT Game to Lead Series 2-1

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Canadiens beat Lightning in OT again to grab 2-1 series lead

The Canadiens won a 3-2 OT thriller over the Lightning Friday, outshooting Tampa 28-17. Hutson scored the winner, Point reached 90 playoff points, and the teams combined for 30 PIM.


Rookie Lane Hutson ended Game 3 in overtime to put Montreal up 2-1 on Tampa Bay. The teams traded goals from Texier, Point, Hagel, and Dach before OT...


The Montreal Canadiens topped the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 in a Game 3 overtime thriller Friday night, moving ahead 2-1 in the series.

 
Lane Hutson scored the winner on the first shot of overtime. It’s the first playoff series to open with three straight OT games since Bruins vs Capitals in 2021.

  
Montreal held a 28-17 edge in shots while the teams combined for 67 hits and 30 penalty minutes.




Fast Start & Texier Ties It

Both teams came out flying, with the scoring starting just minutes after puck drop.

 
Alexandre Texier buried his first of the playoffs to tie it 1-1, set up by a slick assist from Zachary Bolduc.

 


A minute after Texier’s goal, goalie Jakub Dobes took the game’s first penalty for tripping, giving Tampa Bay its first power play to cash in on.

 
Brayden Point scored his first goal of the playoffs to make it 1-1. Jake Guentzel recorded his fifth assist of the postseason, and Nikita Kucherov added his third.


 
Point became the second-fastest player in Lightning history to hit 90 playoff points, doing it in 95 games. Only Kucherov was faster at 87 games.


Montreal’s Kirby Dach and Tampa’s Kucherov each took tripping penalties after the goal, called four minutes apart.

 
Mike Matheson of Montreal was called for hooking Braden Hagel with 49 seconds left in the first, sending Tampa’s power play into the second period with 1:11 still on it.




Tampa failed to score on the carryover power play to start the second, but the Lightning still struck again.


Hagel netted his fourth goal of the playoffs to put Tampa up 2-1.


Dobes took his second penalty of the game after Hagel’s goal, with Tampa’s Erik Cernak also called for an unsportsmanlike minor. That left both teams playing 4-on-4.


Montreal’s Demidov broke in alone but Vasilevskiy turned him away. Demidov then took the Habs’ fifth penalty of the game, giving Tampa its fourth power play.




The Habs answered back when Kirby Dach scored his first of the playoffs, tying it 2-2 with just over seven minutes left in the second.


Just as Tampa carried a power play into the second, Montreal started the third with a man advantage after a high-sticking minor on Darren Raddysh. The Habs didn’t convert.


The teams headed to the third with 10 combined penalties for 20 minutes and eight total power plays: Tampa was 1-for-4, Montreal 0-for-4.


Nearly 10 minutes of the third went penalty-free before Montreal’s Josh Anderson was called for high-sticking. The Habs killed off Tampa’s fifth power play of the night.


Anderson came out of the box on a breakaway, but Vasilevskiy stopped him for his third 1-on-1 save of the game. He’d denied Cole Caufield earlier.


With 3:58 left, a scrum in front of the net sent Tampa’s Emil Lilleberg and Zemgus Girgensons, plus Montreal’s Phillip Danault and Arber Xhekaj, to the box.


A crew cleaned up blood behind the net after Girgensons caught Danault in the nose with an elbow as they went to the ice.


Neither team broke through in regulation. The game went to overtime, where the Habs ended it.


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