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Liveblog replay: Habs beat Vegas 4-1 to take Game 5

Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Eric Staal, Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki scored for the Canadiens.

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The Montreal Canadiens and Vegas Golden Knights will each seek to take a commanding lead in Game 5 of their deadlocked best-of-seven third-round playoff series Tuesday at T-Mobile Arena. Puck drop at 9 p.m. (SN, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio, 98.5 FM).

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The gamesmanship between both teams is growing. Netminder Robin Lehner, victorious in his series debut Sunday, suggested he had rookie Cole Caufield’s number after a game-saving breakaway stop in Game 4. “Either he goes high or he goes five-hole, and it just looked like he was going five-hole, so I closed my legs,” Lehner told media earlier today. Caufield responded that it’s good Lehner is thinking about him and that he so willingly revealed his scouting report. Then came news that Lehner won’t even start at all, that Marc-Andre Fleury will return. Like Foreigner once said: “Head games, it’s you and me baby.”

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No lineup changes expected for the Habs. For the Golden Knights, Chandler Stephenson will be a game-time decision.

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