{"id":550633,"date":"2026-04-11T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550633\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:30:26","slug":"lilleberg-lightning-rally-in-3rd-period-for-win-against-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550633\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilleberg, Lightning rally in 3rd period for win against Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montreal hosts the Columbus Blue Jackets later Saturday; the Buffalo Sabres, who are two points ahead, are idle this weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand where we\u2019re slotted in here and probably need some help, but we do have a chance to get home ice, so there\u2019s still something to play for,\u201d Cooper said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Morgan Geekie<\/a>\u00a0scored for the Bruins, (43-27-10) who would have clinched a Stanley Cup Playoff berth with a victory but instead lost their fifth straight (0-3-2). Jeremy Swayman made 22 saves.<\/p>\n

Boston can still clinch Saturday if the Detroit Red Wings lose to the New Jersey Devils in regulation. The Bruins visit the Blue Jackets on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s brutal,\u201d Geekie said of the mood in the locker room after the game. \u201cIt feels like we\u2019re in control of our own destiny, which we are, but it makes it worse when it seems like you can\u2019t get a point or two, especially this time of the year against a division team and how tight the race is, so it feels like it\u2019s slipping away. We\u2019ve got to get back at it (Sunday).\u201d<\/p>\n

Swayman kept it 0-0 with 2:52 left in the first period, stifling Gage Goncalves<\/a>\u2019 attempt to stuff it home on the short side.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fun to play those kinds of games; we just need to stay in the moment,\u201d Swayman said of the playoff-type atmosphere. \u201cRight now, we have a game (Sunday) we need to focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal hosts the Columbus Blue Jackets later Saturday; the Buffalo Sabres, who are two points ahead, are idle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550634,"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-550633","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\/116388444505030339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550633","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=550633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}