
MONTREAL – Four overtimes. Six one-goal games. A single two-goal lead — lasting just 5:37 — in 360 minutes of hockey. It’s only right that the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning are headed to Game 7 in a first-round series defined by razor-thin margins.“It’s so even, from the special teams to the goaltending to the everything,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “That’s how you get Game 7s. To win this, I mean, you’re going to have a special game from your team, and I’m assuming that the team that wins is probably going to get one more break than the other one.”The two sides will decide Sunday in Tampa, Fla., who advances to face the Buffalo Sabres in the second round after the Lightning staved off elimination Friday with an epic 1-0 overtime win in Game 6 at the Bell Centre. Story continues below advertisement Gage Goncalves scored the winner 9:03 into overtime, while Andrei Vasilevskiy made 30 saves in a spectacular goaltending duel with Jakub Dobes.The Canadiens missed a chance to clinch a series in front of a full-capacity home crowd — something they haven’t done since 2014 — and to advance past the first round for the
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