Canadiens vs Lightning third period thread

Ben Bishop sprung Steven Stamkos on a sloppy Habs' line-change and he made no mistake, feeding Vladislav Namestikov who was wide open in front of the net enough to put on a lightning fast side-to-side deke to tuck the puck past Carey Price's low blocker. The Habs immediately took a penalty, with Dale Weise going to the box for 4 minutes for slashing and for subsequently talking smash to the ref. The 4 minutes in the box surpassed Weise's time spent on the ice to that point as he was only used for 2:05 before taking the penalties.

Max Pacioretty made it seem like the penalties taken by Weise would be a good thing, teeing up a pass laid out to him by Tomas Plekanec, but moments later Jonathan Drouin would be sent on a breakaway by a laser pass from Anton  Stralman, and would beat Carey Price to put the Lightning up 2-1.By the midway point in the period the Habs had dropped to a 36.8 CF% and were being outshot 26-9, and 13-2 for the period.

The Habs are being dominated 5 v 5 as shown on the graph below, ending the period trailing 31.69-18.98 Score Adjusted 5 v 5 Corsi. The Lightning grabbed another goal before the end of the period, at which point the Habs had only registered 1 even-strength shot on net and that being 41 seconds into the second period.

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