TAMPA – The Canadiens are headed to the second spherical of the playoffs after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning in a nail-biting 2-1 victory in Sport 7 at Benchmark Worldwide Enviornment on Sunday.
The Habs struck first late within the first, with captain Nick Suzuki redirecting Kaiden Guhle’s level shot for his first of the postseason.
Tampa Bay evened the rating with an influence play purpose not lengthy after the sport’s midway mark and prevented Montreal from registering a shot within the center body, however Alex Newhook was the distinction maker when he batted the puck in mid-air and in off Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy for his first of the playoffs to present Montreal the win.
Noah Dobson made his return to the lineup and registered 4 hits and two blocked photographs in 18:37 of ice time after lacking the primary six video games of the sequence attributable to harm.
Jakub Dobes made 28 saves within the win.
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