Through the first two games, Coach Jon Cooper has been able to control the match-ups for the most part as he’s had the ability to make the last change. That control will shift to Montreal’s bench for the next two games and it will be interesting to see how they handle that responsibility.
Will they roll the Phillip Danault/Brandan Gallagher/Artturi Lehkonen line against the Lightning’s top line - the Brayden Point line - in hopes of shutting them down? If they do that will that give Yanni Gourde’s line (who had been matching up against the Danault line in Tampa) free reign to bump up their offense a little more?