Lightning's Home-Ice Advantage Threatened in Game One Loss

0:00Tampa Bay Lightning dropped a tough 4-3 overtime loss to the Montreal Canadians in game 1 of their first round playoff series right at home. That crowd was electric, chanting from thunder alley, but it wasn't enough. The bolts now sit with their 10th home playoff loss in 11 games. Dating back to the 2022 Cup Final, Game 2 hits Tuesday night and they can't afford to go down 0-2 in this best of 7. The big story was penalties killing Tampa. They led the lead with 4-25 all season and gave Montreal 5 power plays, converting. 3. Jarosh Slavkovsky lit it up with a playoff hat trick, all on the man advantage, making him the third youngest hob to do that. Players and coaches are fired up about it. Ford. Anthony Surrelli says they got to crank the energy, stay disciplined, and boost that penalty kill against Montreal's deadly power play. Coach John Cooper called some of those calls, straight stupidity, warning that 50% PK success won't cut it if they're constantly shorthanded.

1:04On the flip side, Tampa's bounce back strong historically, 8-5 in series after a home game won loss, and 13-8 in home game. 2. Golly Andrej Vasilevsky needs to lock in after a shaky opener, letting in 4 on 19 shots, especially with stars like him and Nikita Kutcherov. Facing off against the rising Slavkovsky, expect the lightning to come out swinging, Tuesday, cleaning up special teams, and channeling that home ice fire to even the series before it slips. Owing, that's your Tampa Bay news today, update. AI powered and always on.