GameDay: Habs vs Lightning – Game 1 (Apr-16, 2014)
| On this day in hockey history… 1957 – Montreal beat Boston 5-1 in Game Five of the Finals, to become the 1957 Stanley Cup Champions. |  |
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| The series is tied 0-0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Game 1 Times Forum – Tampa, FL Apr 16, 7:00 PM ET TV: CBC, RDS, CNBC |
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| Matchup – Regular Season Stats | ||||
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Montreal CANADIENS |
The Lightning beat the Canadiens in three of the four match-ups these season. Other than a Lightning 3-1 win on April 1st, all other games went to overtime, two of which necessitated a shootout. The Canadiens only win against the Lightning was at Times Forum in Tampa. | Tampa Bay LIGHTNING |
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| 100 Points / 3rd (Atlantic) | Points/Position | 101 Points / 2nd (Atlantic) |
| 46-28-8 | Record | 46-27-9 |
| 23-13-5 | Home | 25-10-6 |
| 23-15-3 | Away | 21-17-3 |
| 7-2-1 | Last 10 | 7-3-0 |
| 2.55 | G/G | 2.83 |
| 2.45 | GA/G | 2.55 |
| 17.2 | PP% | 18.5 |
| 85.1 | PK% | 80.7 |
| Projected Line Combinations and Goaltenders (subject to change) | |||
| Forwards | |||
| Max Pacioretty – David Desharnais – Thomas Vanek Brandon Prust – Tomas Plekanec – Brendan Gallagher Rene Bourque – Lars Eller – Brian Gionta Michael Bournival – Daniel Briere – Dale Weise |
Alex Killorn – Steven Stamkos – Tyler Johnson Teddy Purcell – Cedric Paquette – Ryan Callahan J.T. Brown – Cody Kunyk – Nikita Kucherov Richard Panik – Nate Thompson – Mike Kostka |
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| Defensemen | |||
| Andrei Markov – Alexei Emelin Josh Gorges – P.K. Subban Francis Bouillon – Mike Weaver |
Matt Carle – Radko Gudas Victor Hedman – Andrej Sustr Eric Brewer – Sami Salo |
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| Goalies | |||
| Carey Price (Confirmed) | Anders Lindback (Confirmed) | ||
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Record: 34-20-5 GAA: 2.32 Sv%: .927 SO: 5 Alternate: Peter Budaj |
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Record: 8-12-2 GAA: 2.90 Sv%: .891 SO: 1 Alternate: Kristers Gudlevskis |
| Scratches | |||
| Travis Moen (concussion), Ryan White (healthy scratch), Jarred Tinordi (healthy scratch), George Parros (healthy scratch), Douglas Murray (healthy scratch), Alex Galchenyuk (upper-body) | Mattias Ohlund (knee), Ondrej Palat (lower-body), Ben Bishop (arm), Valtteri Filppula (lower-body) | ||
| Game Recap of last game two teams played (full recap available here) | ||||||
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| FINAL Apr-1 |
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| Regular Season Series | |||
| Date | Visitor | Home | Final |
| 12-Nov | |
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TBL (2) – MTL (1) (SO) |
| 28-Dec | |
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MTL (2) – TBL (1) (SO) |
| 1-Feb | |
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TBL (2) – MTL (1) (OT) |
| 1-Apr | |
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MTL (1) – TBL (3) |
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(Header Photo/The Canadian Press, Jason Franson)