The game between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs will take place at Amalie Arena on Monday, April 24 at 7:30 PM ET.
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The Tampa Bay Lightning will welcome the Toronto Maple Leafs to Amalie Arena for an NHL game on Monday. The Tampa Bay Lightning lost 3-4 in their last game over the Maple Leafs. Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel scored in the opening period for Tampa Bay, which took a 3-2 lead on rookie Darren Raddysh’s first career playoff goal at 13:34 of the second. Play was interrupted for several minutes early in the third period while officials sorted through a wild sequence that began with Reilly pushing Tampa Bay’s Brayden Point into the boards as the two battled for a loose puck.
The hit touched off several skirmishes, one of them involving Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos and Matthews. Stamkos and Matthews were sent to the penalty box for fighting, as were Kucherov and O’Reilly. Reilly was initially assessed a five-minute penalty for boarding, but following a review, the officials ruled there was no penalty for the shove on Point, who skated to the locker room bent over in pain before returning in the closing minutes of regulation.
The Toronto Maple Leafs on the other hand won 3-4 against the Lightning in their last game. Down a goal and outplayed for much of the night, the Toronto Maple Leafs found a way to reclaim home-ice advantage in their first-round playoff series against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Ryan O’Reilly scored with a minute left in regulation, then won a faceoff that set up Morgan Reilly’s goal at 19:15 of overtime that gave the Maple Leafs a 4-3 victory Saturday night in Game 3 of the best-of-seven matchup.
Ilya Samsonov stopped 36 shots for Toronto. He had eight saves in the extra period, one on Lightning star Nikita Kucherov from point-blank range, to give the Maple Leafs a 2-1 series lead. Game 4 is Monday night at Amalie Arena. Toronto, which hasn’t won a playoff series since 2004, also regained home-ice advantage in the series after watching it slip away during a lopsided loss at home in Game 1. The Maple Leafs are 0 for 7 in their last seven postseason matchups, including first-round exits each of the past six years.
“It wasn’t the best game by us, but we did a good job of sticking with it,” O’Reilly said. Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe also liked the way his team stayed the course, noting that in past years “we’ve lost this game.” Auston Matthews and Noel Acciari scored early for Toronto, which forced overtime when O’Reilly slipped a shot past Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy with 60 seconds remaining in the third period.
Brandon Hagel – Anthony Cirelli – Ross Colton
Alex Killorn – Nikita Kucherov – Corey Perry
Darren Raddysh – Steven Stamkos – Pierre-Édouard Bellemare
Zach Bogosian – Ian Cole
Victor Hedman – Tanner Jeannot
Patrick Maroon – Nick Paul
Nick Perbix – Brayden Point
Mikhail Sergachev
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Ryan O’Reilly – Mitch Marner – Noel Acciari
Calle Järnkrok – Matthew Knies – Auston Matthews
William Nylander – Morgan Rielly – Zach Aston-Reese
T. J. Brodie – Mark Giordano
Justin Holl – David Kämpf
Alexander Kerfoot – Sam Lafferty
Jake McCabe – Ilya Samsonov
Luke Schenn
John Tavares
Tampa Bay Lightning: Erik Cernak, Mikey Eyssimont
Toronto Maple Leafs: Matt Murray , Erik Gustafsson, Bobby McMann, Victor Mete, Nicholas Robertson, Jake Muzzin
The game between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs will take place at Amalie Arena on Monday, April 24 at 7:30 PM ET.
The match between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs will be telecast live on Fox Sports Sun, Bally Sports Sun, TBS.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Fox Sports Sun, Bally Sports Sun, TBS. | April 24 (7:30 PM ET) |
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