Game Day: Lightning vs Canadiens – Game 1 Preview, Lines, Goalies, TV

Rick Stephens

9 years ago

Pre-game Notes and Quotes

Lightning coach Jon Cooper: “They’re underdogs? They had 110 points, won the division, have the Vezina candidate, Hart candidate and Norris candidate. I guess if we had those, I’d say, ‘Yeah, he is the underdog.’ But we don’t have those.”
Jon Cooper: “I’ve used slogans (for motivation) but we don’t have one for Montreal. This (sweep) from last year… is enough.”
Michel Therrien: “This is a powerful team we’re playing. It’s going to be a hell of a challenge for us.”
Dale Weise: “One word to describe the Lightning? Explosive. We’ll have to be ready.”
Brendan Gallagher: “We’re happy to finally get things started.”

Matchup – Playoff Statistics
Game 1 \| Bell Centre, Montreal, QC. \| May 1, 7:00 PM ET \| TV: CBC, NBCSN, TVA \| Series 0-0
	Eastern Conference Semi-final
LIGHTNING	Eastern Conference Semi-final	CANADIENS
108 (5th)	Points (Eastern Conference Position)	110 (2nd)
4-3	Record	4-2
2-2	Home	2-1
2-1	Road	2-1
4-3	Last 10	3-2
2.43	G/G	2.00
2.14	GA/G	2.00
6.7	PP%	5.0
82.8	PK%	75.0
11.4	PIM/G	12.8
28.6	S/G	37.3
24.0	SA/G	33.0
54.0	FO%	51.3
51.4	CF%	51.5
53.1	FF%	52.2

Projected Line Combinations and Goaltenders (subject to change)
Forwards
Killorn – Stamkos – Callahan Palat – Johnson – Kucherov Namestnikov – Filppula – Paquette Morrow – Boyle – Nesterov	Pacioretty – Plekanec – Gallagher Galchenyuk – Desharnais – Weise Prust – Eller – Parenteau De La Rose – Mitchell – Smith-Pelly Expected scratches: Malhotra, Parenteau, Carr, Thomas, Hudon, Flynn
Defensemen
Hedman – Stralman Garrison – Coburn Carle – Sustr	Markov – Subban Emelin – Petry Pateryn – Gilbert Expected scratches: Beaulieu (upper-body), Weaver, Gonchar, Lernout, Dietz
Goalies
Ben Bishop (Confirmed)	Carey Price (Confirmed)

2014-2015 Playoffs: Record: 4-3 GAA: 1.87 Sv%: .922 SO: 1 Alternate: Andrei Vasilevskiy	2014-2015 Playoffs: Record: 4-2 GAA: 1.94 Sv%: .939 SO: 1 Alternate: Dustin Tokarski Expected scratches: Joey MacDonald, Mike Condon

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