Lightning Stumble at Home, Lose Game One

0:00It's April 20th. Welcome to Tampa Bay News today, powered by AI. Tampa Bay Lightning keeps stumbling on home ice in the playoffs, dropping game 1 to Montreal Monday night. That makes 10 losses in their last 11 home postseason games, plus 12 defeats in their last 13 overtime playoff contests. Penalties were the real killer here, with the bolts racking up 7 all night. Montreal cast in on 3 powerplay goals during those shorthanded shifts, flipping the game their way. Tampa let the league and penalty minutes all season, so this discipline issue ain't new. It's been haunting them from regular season into these playoffs. Players like Anthony Cerelli and Brandon Hagel owned it after, stressing smarter stick checks, and staying out of the box to boost their 5 on 5. Play. Coach John Cooper broke it down simple, stripped away the power plays, and not much happened, with special teams decided everything. Now they got a bounce back quick in game 2, Tuesday as 7 p.m. Defenseman Charley Edoar de Astuce looks doubtful after eating a hit in game 1, so lineup tweaks could be coming.

1:04The bolts know they can flip this series, if they clean up those penalties and grind even strength wins, eyes on evening it up real soon.