{"id":558833,"date":"2026-04-24T22:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/558833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:33:16","slug":"last-minute-schedule-clarification-issued-for-canadiens-lightning-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/558833\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-minute schedule clarification issued for Canadiens-Lightning Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nLast-minute schedule clarification issued for Canadiens-Lightning Game 3    &#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Hockey Fanatics has no direct affiliation to the Montreal Canadiens, NHL or NHLPA<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t  &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/661455.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo of Bell Centre\" title=\"Photo of Bell Centre\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Canadiens\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>Small last-minute change for Montreal Canadiens fans who will be at the Centre Bell tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is asking everyone to be in their seats at 6:50 PM to not miss any of the pre-game presentation.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Canadiens have clearly prepared something special for the return of the playoffs to Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first 2026 playoff game at the Centre Bell and we can expect a presentation worthy of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The series between the Montreal Canadiens and the Tampa Bay Lightning is tied 1-1, and the first two games in Tampa both went to overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Janis Moser scored the game-winning goal in Game 2 following the well-documented mistakes by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Kirby-Dach-52327\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-player-id=\"52327\">Kirby Dach<\/a> in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre Bell hosts the playoffs for the first time in 2026<\/p>\n<p>Tensions are high between the two teams. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Corey-Perry-3524\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-player-id=\"3524\">Corey Perry<\/a> is targeting the smaller Canadiens players.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Cooper is inserting enforcers into his lineup.<\/p>\n<p>And Montreal Canadiens fans haven\u2019t had their say yet.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, 21,000 fans will finally get to respond. Head coach Martin St-Louis has made no changes to his lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher remains in the stands.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the official Montreal Canadiens account that made this small announcement in the last few minutes:<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t wait for it to start!<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Montreal Hockey Fanatics<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>10 MINUTES AGO|14 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Last-minute schedule clarification issued for Canadiens-Lightning Game 3<\/p>\n<p>Will the atmosphere at the Centre Bell give the Montreal Canadiens an advantage tonight?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Last-minute schedule clarification issued for Canadiens-Lightning Game 3 &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Montreal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[2003,265,5,264,21,5147,40,4,104,62990],"class_list":["post-558833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal-canadiens","tag-bell-centre","tag-canadiens","tag-hockey","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-montrealcanadiens","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-tamba-bay-lightthing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116462066884683168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558833","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=558833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}