Vegas Golden Knights vs Montréal Canadiens
Playoffs · Thursday, June 24, 2021 · Centre Bell
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3–2 in overtime on Thursday, June 24, 2021 at Centre Bell. The Golden Knights outshot the Canadiens 39–32.
Goals came from Shea Weber, Reilly Smith, Cole Caufield, Alec Martinez and Artturi Lehkonen.
Carey Price made 37 saves on 39 shots for the win; Robin Lehner stopped 29 of 32.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Shea Weber (1)Unassisted0–114:06 MTL · 
Reilly Smith (3)Shea Theodore (9), William Karlsson (11)1–114:54 VGK
2nd period
Cole Caufield (4)Joel Edmundson (6), Jeff Petry (5)1–209:36 MTL
3rd period
Alec Martinez (4)Alex Pietrangelo (8), William Karlsson (12)2–201:08 VGK
Overtime
Artturi Lehkonen (3)Phillip Danault (3), Brendan Gallagher (3)2–301:39 MTL
Team stats
VGKMTL
3932
53%47%
0/21/3
64
3129
1314
2521
511
Penalties
- 1:56 into the first period
Nicolas Roy · high sticking2 min - 12:36 into the first periodAlex Pietrangelo · roughing2 min
- 3:15 into the second period
Tyler Toffoli · hooking2 min - 5:42 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 11:04 into the second periodEric Staal · hooking2 min
Season series
Vegas Golden Knights
| 71William KarlssonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 18:47 |
| 19Reilly SmithR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 5 | 18:20 |
| 7Alex PietrangeloD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 6 | 28:22 |
| 23Alec MartinezD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 24:23 |
| 27Shea TheodoreD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 24:33 |
| 10Nicolas RoyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:43 |
| 20Chandler StephensonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:50 |
| 26Mattias JanmarkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 15:42 |
| 28William CarrierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:06 |
| 55Keegan KolesarR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:41 |
| 61Mark StoneR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:10 |
| 67Max PaciorettyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 14:57 |
| 81Jonathan MarchessaultC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 17:46 |
| 89Alex TuchR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:56 |
| 92Tomas NosekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 11:40 |
| 2Zach WhitecloudD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:42 |
| 3Brayden McNabbD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:42 |
| 14Nicolas HagueD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 10:31 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 90Robin LehnerG | L | 32 | 3 | .906 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 11Brendan GallagherR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 15:20 |
| 22Cole CaufieldR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 12:39 |
| 24Phillip DanaultL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 16:43 |
| 62Artturi LehkonenL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 16:56 |
| 6Shea WeberD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 26:53 |
| 26Jeff PetryD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25:59 |
| 44Joel EdmundsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28:45 |
| 14Nick SuzukiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:38 |
| 15Jesperi KotkaniemiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:01 |
| 17Josh AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:11 |
| 21Eric StaalC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:40 |
| 40Joel ArmiaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:03 |
| 41Paul ByronL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:17 |
| 73Tyler ToffoliC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 17:23 |
| 94Corey PerryR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:46 |
| 8Ben ChiarotD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24:48 |
| 28Jon MerrillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:45 |
| 32Erik GustafssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:31 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | W | 39 | 2 | .949 |
| 34Jake AllenG | 0 | 0 | – |