{"id":560483,"date":"2026-04-27T02:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/560483\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:36:15","slug":"habs-blow-2-goal-lead-hagel-strikes-twice-as-lightning-tie-series-with-game-4-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/560483\/","title":{"rendered":"Habs blow 2-goal lead, Hagel strikes twice as Lightning tie series with Game 4 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Hagel scored his NHL playoffs-leading fifth and sixth goals in the third period and the   Tampa Bay Lightning rallied to beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 on Sunday night in Game 4 to tie their first-round series.<\/p>\n<p>After the first three games in the series went  to overtime, Tampa Bay overcame a two-goal deficit to end it in regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel gave the Lightning the lead with 4:43 left, deflecting Nikita Kucherov&#8217;s shot past Jakub Dobes.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Guentzel had a goal and assist, and Kucherov added two assists on the top line with Hagel. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 16 saves for the Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning rebounded after falling 3-2 on Friday night on defenseman Lane Hutson&#8217;s overtime slapshot.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel tied it on a power play at 1:40 off a centering pass from Kucherov. The Lightning got the man advantage when Oliver Kapanen was sent off for high-sticking Dominic James.<\/p>\n<p>Guentzel cut it to 2-1 with 54 seconds to go in the second, beating Dobes from the left side off a feed from defenseman J.J. Moser.<\/p>\n<p>Bolduc, Caufield score for Habs<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Bolduc and Cole Caufield scored for Montreal in a three-and-a-half minute span in the second. <\/p>\n<p>Bolduc opened the scoring with 9:54 left in the second. He took a long pass from defenceman Kaiden Guhle, held off Lightning defenceman Darren Raddysh and had the puck deflect in off his body as he cut across the front of the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Caufield then struck on a power play with 6:31 left in the period, with Guentzel off for slashing Dobes&#8217; glove. Caufield took Nick Suzuki&#8217;s centering pass in the slot and redirected the puck in. <\/p>\n<p>It was Caufield&#8217;s first goal in the series after having 51 goals in the regular season. Dobes made 17 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 is Wednesday night in Tampa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,5,264,21,5147,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-560483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-montreal","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens","12":"tag-montrealcanadiens","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116474347353401656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560483","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=560483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}