{"id":548682,"date":"2026-04-09T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548682\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:24:24","slug":"lightning-look-to-get-win-in-montreal-as-division-standings-squeeze-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548682\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning look to get win in Montr\u00e9al as division standings squeeze closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Atlantic Division standings have tightened toward the end of the regular season, but the Tampa Bay Lightning remain atop the division despite a pair of losses to open the road trip.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay fell in a 4-2 game in Buffalo on Monday before the Ottawa Senators took a 6-2 win over the Lightning on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo, Montr\u00e9al and Tampa Bay are tied at 102 standings points with four games to play, but Tampa Bay remains in first on tiebreakers.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning will face the Canadiens in Montr\u00e9al on Thursday night. Tampa Bay is 2-1-0 against Montr\u00e9al this season after a pair of wins in December and a loss on the final day of March.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Vs.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n<p>When: Thursday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Where: Bell Centre, Montr\u00e9al, QC<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all Lightning games will be broadcast live on The Spot \u2013 Tampa Bay 66 (WXPX-TV) and will also be <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/lightning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streamed here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Spot Tampa Bay 66 is the official broadcast partner of the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Spot and Tampa Bay 28 are both owned by EW Scripps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BLAKE.PHILLIPS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Seminole Hard Rock Tampa and The Motor Enclave announce new partnership to create Hard Rock Speedway<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the partnership, Hard Rock displayed classic cars, including a replica of the Shelby from &#8220;Gone in 60 Seconds&#8221; and a replica Daytona from &#8220;Miami Vice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seminole Hard Rock Tampa and The Motor Enclave announce new partnership to create Hard Rock Speedway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Atlantic Division standings have tightened toward the end of the regular season, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[7136,7137,12262,265,5,264,21,5147,4,32946,92,7138,7139,7140],"class_list":{"0":"post-548682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-abc-action-news-sports","10":"tag-bolts","11":"tag-canadiens","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-montreal","14":"tag-montreal-canadiens","15":"tag-montrealcanadiens","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-tampa-bay-28","18":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","19":"tag-tampa-bay-sports","20":"tag-wfts","21":"tag-wfts-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116374502225437866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}