{"id":557026,"date":"2026-04-21T01:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:51:49","slug":"nuts-bolts-lightning-aim-to-bounce-back-in-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557026\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts & Bolts: Lightning aim to bounce back in Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 2 on Tuesday:<\/p>\n

When: Tuesday, April 21 – 7 p.m. ET
Where:\u00a0Benchmark International Arena – Tampa, FL.
TV Coverage:\u00a0The Spot – Tampa Bay 66 (check local listings)
Stream:\u00a0TampaBayLightning<\/a>.com\/StreamNow<\/a>
Radio coverage:\u00a0102.5 MHz-FM<\/a>,\u00a0Lightning Radio 24\/7<\/a><\/p>\n

Lines from Sunday’s game (subject to change)
Forwards
Gage\u00a0Goncalves – Brayden Point\u00a0– Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli – Jake Guentzel
Zemgus Girgensons – Yanni Gourde –\u00a0Nick Paul
Conor Geekie – Dominic James – Corey Perry\u00a0<\/p>\n

Defensemen
JJ Moser – Darren Raddysh
Ryan McDonagh – Erik Cernak
Charle-Edouard D’Astous\u00a0 – Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n

Goaltenders
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s Matchup
The Lightning will look to even their First Round series against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 2 on Tuesday at Benchmark International Arena…Montreal took a 4-3 overtime game on Sunday to open the series…Jake Guentzel (0-3\u20143) joined Brandon Hagel (2-0\u20142) and Nikita Kucherov (0-2\u20142) with multi-point efforts in the series opener…Tampa Bay went 2-2-0 against Montreal in 2025-26, winning 6-1 on Dec. 9 and 5-4 in a shotoout on Dec. 28 before falling 4-1 in March and 2-1 in April… Tampa Bay is 12-8 all-time against Montreal in the playoffs, including a 7-4 record on home ice…The Lightning were led in the regular season by Kucherov\u2019s 3-2\u20145 in four games against the Canadiens… He is the team\u2019s career playoff scoring leader versus the Canadiens with 10-5\u201415 in 14 games… Andrei Vasilevskiy is 4-2-0 with a .919 save percentage across six career playoff starts against the Canadiens…Tampa Bay is 24-7-3 in regular season games against Montreal over the past 10 seasons.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Sports Item of the Game
Lightning vs Canadians Round 1 Match Up Puck
Tampa Bay Lightning 2026 Playoffs Round 1 match-up gear is now available. \u00a0Available in store at Benchmark International Arena and online at TampaBaySports.com<\/a> while supplies last.<\/p>\n

The Road Ahead (\\if necessary*)<\/p>\n

Game 3: Lightning at\u00a0Canadiens –\u00a0Friday, April 24
\nGame 4: Lightning at\u00a0Canadiens –\u00a0Sunday, April 26
\nGame 5: Lightning vs. Canadiens – Wednesday, April 29*
\nGame 6: Lightning at Canadiens – Friday, May 1*
\nGame 7: Lightning vs. Canadiens – Sunday, May 3*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know ahead of the Lightning’s matchup against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 2 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557027,"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-557026","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\/116440203117474769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557026","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=557026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}