Montreal advances to play the Buffalo Sabres within the Jap Convention Second Spherical. Sport 1 is in Buffalo on Wednesday.
All seven video games within the collection had been determined by one aim and 4 went to extra time.
Montreal superior regardless of being held to 9 pictures on aim in Sport 7.
The sport-winning aim got here when Lane Hutson took a shot from the purpose that Andrei Vasilevskiy turned away with a stick and the puck went off the tip boards the place Newhook swiped on the airborne puck from the aim line and it went off of Vasilevskiy’s again and into the online.
Nick Suzuki additionally scored for the Canadiens, who had been the No. 3 seed within the Atlantic Division. Jakub Dobes made 28 saves.
Dominic James scored for the Lightning, who had been the No. 2 seed within the Atlantic. Andrei Vasilevskiy made seven saves. The Lightning had been eradicated within the first spherical for the fourth consecutive season.
Suzuki gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead at 18:39 of the primary interval after he tried to redirect a shot from Kaiden Guhle on the hashmarks and the puck went off J.J. Moser’s shin and into the online.
James tied it with a power-play aim at 13:27 with a redirection from the slot off a slap shot by Charle Edouard D’Astous from the purpose.