Montréal Canadiens vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Saturday, March 2, 2024 · Amalie Arena
CBC · TVAS · CITY · BSSUN
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Montréal Canadiens 4-3 in a shootout on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at Amalie Arena. The Canadiens outshot the Lightning 31-29.
Goals came from Joel Armia, Jake Evans, Brayden Point, Anthony Cirelli, Josh Anderson and Tyler Motte.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves on 31 shots for the win; Cayden Primeau stopped 26 of 29.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Joel Armia (11)Kaiden Guhle (11), Alex Newhook (10)1–001:27 MTL
Jake Evans (5)Brendan Gallagher (9)2–014:34 MTL
2nd period
Brayden Point (32)Steven Stamkos (28), Nikita Kucherov (67)2–107:44 TBL
Anthony Cirelli (13)Brandon Hagel (38)2–215:49 TBL
3rd period
Josh Anderson (8)Cole Caufield (29), Arber Xhekaj (5)3–206:23 MTL
Tyler Motte (6)Unassisted3–310:18 TBL · SHG
SO period
Victor HedmanUnassisted3–400:00 TBL
Team stats
MTLTBL
31Shots on goal29
49%Faceoff %51%
0/2Power play0/2
9Penalty minutes9
24Hits25
13Blocked shots16
1Giveaways7
6Takeaways12
Penalties
- 1st 03:25
Erik Cernak · roughing2 min - 1st 03:25Erik Cernak · fighting5 min
- 1st 03:25
Arber Xhekaj · fighting5 min - 2nd 11:55Brendan Gallagher · cross checking2 min
- 3rd 09:30Mitchell Chaffee · boarding2 min
- OT 01:09Cole Caufield · hooking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 11Brendan GallagherR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:30 |
| 15Alex NewhookC | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 3 | 16:19 |
| 17Josh AndersonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 15:49 |
| 22Cole CaufieldR | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 4 | 21:32 |
| 40Joel ArmiaR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14:50 |
| 71Jake EvansC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 16:54 |
| 21Kaiden GuhleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22:28 |
| 72Arber XhekajD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 16:36 |
| 14Nick SuzukiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 23:08 |
| 20Juraj SlafkovskýL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 20:54 |
| 36Colin WhiteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:55 |
| 56Jesse YlonenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:21 |
| 70Tanner PearsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:09 |
| 89Joshua RoyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:56 |
| 8Mike MathesonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 28:06 |
| 26Johnathan KovacevicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:15 |
| 54Jordan HarrisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:03 |
| 58David SavardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26:50 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Cayden PrimeauG | O | 29 | 26 | 3 | .897 | 65:00 |
| 34Jake AllenG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 21Brayden PointC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 23:10 |
| 38Brandon HagelL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 22:40 |
| 64Tyler MotteC | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 12:10 |
| 71Anthony CirelliC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 22:38 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 23:05 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 20:55 |
| 11Luke GlendeningC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 11:18 |
| 20Nick PaulL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:53 |
| 23Michael EyssimontC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:17 |
| 41Mitchell ChaffeeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:49 |
| 73Conor ShearyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 12:02 |
| 7Haydn FleuryD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:30 |
| 43Darren RaddyshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 10:43 |
| 48Nick PerbixD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:07 |
| 65Maxwell CrozierD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 14:37 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29:19 |
| 78Emil LillebergD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 15:41 |
| 81Erik CernakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 18:09 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Jonas JohanssonG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | W | 31 | 28 | 3 | .903 | 64:32 |