Montreal at Tampa Bay — NHL December 29, 2024

5 – 2

Final

Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL

	1	2	3	T
MTL	1	2	2	5
TB	0	2	0	2

MTL 37 shots on goal 23 TB

Recap

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Three stars

1st star

S. Montembeault

21 saves

2nd star

J. Armia

1 goal

1 assist

+2 rating

3rd star

B. Hagel

1 goal

-1 rating

Scoring

	1st Per	MTL	TB
12:07	Alex Newhook 7 (Assists: Mike Matheson 16, Patrik Laine 2)	1	0

	2nd Per	MTL	TB
0:37	Brandon Hagel 18 (Unassisted)	1	1
12:34	Christian Dvorak 3 (Assists: Kaiden Guhle 6, Alexandre Carrier 3)	2	1
18:28	Jake Evans 10 (Assists: Joel Armia 11)	3	1
18:54	Nikita Kucherov 17 (Assists: Brayden Point 20, Darren Raddysh 11)	3	2

	3rd Per	MTL	TB
12:32	Joel Armia 7 (Assists: Emil Heineman 7)	4	2
18:08	Brendan Gallagher 11 (empty net) (Assists: Josh Anderson 9, Alexandre Carrier 5)	5	2

Penalties

1st Per

18:19 Arber Xhekaj (Hooking - 2 min) drawn by Nikita Kucherov

2nd Per

0:50 Lane Hutson (Hooking - 2 min) drawn by Conor Geekie
16:08 Erik Cernak (Tripping - 2 min) drawn by Cole Caufield

3rd Per

7:12 Alex Newhook (Holding - 2 min) drawn by Emil Lilleberg
14:41 Nikita Kucherov (Tripping - 2 min) drawn by Kirby Dach

Highlights

NHL Highlights | Canadiens vs. Lightning - December 29, 2024

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