Bolts come back to beat Montreal

by Gary Shelton on April 27, 2026

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Hagel scored two more goals./TIM WIRT

Monday, 4 a.m.

They are a hard team to kill, these Tampa Bay Lightning.

You can be at home. You can be ahead. You can be a physical opponent.

And still, the Bolts can hurt you.

The Lightning rallied from a 2-0 deficit to tie their NHL playoff series Sunday night at the Bell Centre. That squared the series at two games apiece going into Wednesday night's Game Five at Benchmark International Arena.

Vasilevskiy anchored the Bolts' win./TIM WIRT

Brendan Hagel continued his sensational series, scoring two goals. He now has six for the series.

Jake Guentzel scored the Bolts' third goal.

That came after a frustrating start. Montreal took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Zack Bolduc. Shortly afterward, Cole Caufield scored to go up 2-0.

Nikita Kucherov had two assists to help the comeback.

Goalie Andrei Vasileveskiy stopped 16 of 18 shots. Counting regular-season and post-season, Vasilevskiy has 40 wins on the season.

Ganetime for Wednesday night has not been announced yet.

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