Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> on Friday night in a 1-0 overtime loss, sending the series to a decisive seventh game on Sunday night.<\/p>\nBut because they might have allowed Lightning goalie Andre Vasilevskiy to get hot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In what was one of the best goalie duels of the playoffs so far, Vasilevskiy was able to outlast Montreal’s Jakub Dobes by making 30 saves, including several highlight-reel stops to help steal the game. That performance kept the Lightning in it long enough for Gage Goncalves to score the winning goal on a rebound from right in front of the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was a vintage performance from one of the best goalies of this era. It might be a turning point in the series.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy may have found his game just in time<\/h2>\n
There are few goalies in the modern era who have a resume that compares with the one Vasilevskiy has put together in Tampa Bay. He has played in four Stanley Cup Finals, won two of them, owns a Vezina Trophy and has been a finalist six different times, including this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When he is on his game, he is as good as it gets.<\/p>\n
He is also a cheat code for a Tampa Bay team that already has an outstanding roster. Putting a goalie like him behind that can turn an already good Lightning team into an almost unbeatable force.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a slow start to this series that saw Vasilevskiy enter Game 6 on Friday with only an .880 save percentage, he might be finding his rhythm.<\/p>\n
His biggest moment might have come late in the second period when he made back-to-back stunning saves to rob Canadiens rookie Ivan Demidov.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n