The Tampa Bay Lightning were find a tying goal late, but the Canadiens had a response of their own to take a 2-1 win over the Bolts on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is now 48-25-6 this season.<\/p>\n
Cole Caufield gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead with a shot in the right faceoff circle in the second period, but Darren Raddysh tied the game for Tampa Bay with the Lightning net empty on a one-timer in the closing minutes.<\/p>\n
The Canadiens ended the game with a Juraj Slafkovsky goal with 1:04 left.<\/p>\n
Nikita Kucherov and Gage Goncalves had assists for Tampa Bay, and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 19 saves.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay will wrap up the final road trip of the regular season on Saturday with a 12:30 p.m. game against the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary
First period
None.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: MTL 8, TBL 3<\/p>\n
Second period
MTL 1, TBL 0
6:30 Cole Caufield (50) – Nick Suzuki, Juraj Slafkovsky
The home team was first to score with Cole\u00a0Caufield\u2019s shot off the rush from the right faceoff dot.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: MTL 8, TBL 7<\/p>\n
Third period
MTL 1, TBL 1
18:09 Darren\u00a0Raddysh (22) – Nikita Kucherov, Gage Goncalves
A one-timer from\u00a0defenseman Darren Raddysh tied the game late while at 6-on-5.<\/p>\n
MTL 2, TBL 1
18:56\u00a0Slafkovsky (30) – Suzuki
Montreal retook the lead with just over a minute remaining on a\u00a0netfront chance for Juraj Slafkovsky following a turnover.<\/p>\n
Total shots: MTL 21, TBL 18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning were find a tying goal late, but the Canadiens had a response of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[5,189,4,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-549178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-lightning","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","13":"tag-tampabay","14":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116377981238719925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549178","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=549178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}