{"id":557773,"date":"2026-04-22T07:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:51:12","slug":"mosers-overtime-winner-sends-tampa-bay-lightning-over-montreal-canadiens-in-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557773\/","title":{"rendered":"Moser\u2019s overtime winner sends Tampa Bay Lightning over Montreal Canadiens in Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

J.J. Moser<\/a> scored the winner in overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> in Game 2, pushing the teams to a 1-1 tie in the series.<\/p>\n

Montreal got goals from Josh Anderson<\/a> and Lane Hutson<\/a> in regulation, while Nikita Kucherov<\/a> and Brandon Hagel<\/a> scored the regulation goals for the Lightning.<\/p>\n

Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> stopped 25 of 27 shots to get the win for the Lightning, while Jakub Dobes<\/a> turned away 30 of 33 shots for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n

Nikita Kucherov<\/a> scored the equalizer for Tampa Bay at the 12:33 mark of the third period, when a Canadiens turnover in their own zone found Kucherov\u2019s stick behind the net and he was able to beat Dobes on a wrap around, evening the score at 2-2.<\/p>\n

Anderson gave Montreal its first lead of the game late in the second period when he chipped a bouncing puck just outside the crease over Vasilevskiy\u2019s pad.<\/p>\n

Hutson found the opening marker for the Canadiens late in a power play in the first period on a shot from the point that fooled Vasilevskiy to even the score at 1-1.<\/p>\n

Hagel continued his torrid start to the series with the game\u2019s opening goal at the 8:40 mark in the opening frame – also on Tampa Bay\u2019s first shot on goal of the contest.<\/p>\n

A broken stick for a Habs player left the team undermanned on an even-strength play, and Hagel found a good spot to unleash a shot that banked in off the post to beat Dobes.<\/p>\n

After a hotly-contested first game of the series that ended with an overtime victory for the Canadiens, these Atlantic Division rivals were expected to come out ready to play with a lot of intensity, and the game did not disappoint on that front.<\/p>\n

There were a combined five roughing penalties called between the two sides throughout the game, and there was a fight between the early stars of the series in Hagel for Tampa Bay and Game 1 hero Juraj Slafkovsky for Montreal.<\/p>\n

The Lightning even up the series at 1-1 as play shifts back to Montreal for Game 3 on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.J. Moser scored the winner in overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 3-2 victory over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,33168,4,33549],"class_list":{"0":"post-557773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-14"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116447273535419442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557773","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=557773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}