Lightning win in overtime against Canadiens to force winner-takes-all Game 7

[p]Gage Goncalves scored his first career overtime game-winning goal and his first goal in the last 16 games dating back to the regular season as he kept the Lightning's season alive.[/p][p]His goal came on the 63rd shot and the 53rd scoring chance between both teams. [/p][p]Game 7 between the Canadiens and Lightning is scheduled for May 3rd.[/p][embed guid="d84379bd-ea06-4afc-86dc-72277fec7ea4" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58K38Drzjgc" social-type="youtube" /][h2]Recap & Highlights[/h2][p]After the first three minutes following puck drop, the game would go on for seven straight minutes without a single whistle. [/p][p]The first period of Game 6 was just the third of the entire series that didn't see a single goal. After a [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/guentzel-jake/Mq78JKxK/"]Jake Guentzel[/a] high-sticking penalty with 10 seconds to go, the Habs would have a power play with 1:50 carrying over into the second.[/p][p]After killing off the first power play of the game, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/tampa-bay-lightning/YVE3zk1c/"]Tampa[/a] was almost the first team to get on the scoreboard. But [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/montreal-canadiens/nu2G7VWc/"]Montreal[/a]'s [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/danault-phillip/IZfyUR9I/"]Phillip Danault[/a] was at the right place at the right time to deny the puck just as it was about to cross the line. [/p][embed guid="a3ef113b-20d1-47a6-b5fc-5beb4690025c" url="https://x.com/NHL/status/2050369990692311316?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]It would remain scoreless once again through the second period, making it the fourth scoreless period, as both teams headed into the third without a goal for the first time in the series. [/p][p]The scoreless battle came at the hands of fantastic goalie play. [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/dobes-jakub/0W5FnU82/"]Jakub Dobes[/a] (MTL) headed into the third with 16 saves, while [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/vasilevski-andrei/pSoZfKJQ/"]Andrei Vasilevskiy[/a] put up 17, including a double split-save in what looked to be an easy goal for [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/demidov-ivan/pdts9jU5/"]Ivan Demidov[/a]. [/p][embed guid="9ee7b40f-8221-4ee5-9b34-abec789b8f72" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtw69R6_AN0&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv" social-type="youtube" /][p]After a Tampa Bay power play and both teams in a 4-on-4 situation, the game remained scoreless. With five minutes left to go, both teams also had exactly 25 shots on goal each. [/p][p]Tampa would have another golden opportunity after Demidov got a two-minute minor for goalie interference after trying to deke his way to the net, crashing into Vasilevskiy. [/p][embed guid="4b458bc4-ef54-47e0-8e50-8f3a36adf59b" url="https://x.com/BR_OpenIce/status/2050389223992152499?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]But despite having the puck in the offensive zone for almost the entire power play, putting up shot after shot, the Lightning couldn't come away with a goal, forcing the game to go to overtime.[/p][p]Dobes would come in the clutch for the Habs, as he went into overtime with a game-leading 28 saves... But it wasn't enough as Tampa would force a Game 7.[/p][embed guid="36ae88e8-f98c-4df7-ae29-93afcce894aa" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D-VRGOG5U0" social-type="youtube" /]