MONTREAL -- With each game, the Tampa Bay Lightning are learning more about Stanley Cup Playoff hockey, what it takes to win, and themselves.

The Lightning are up 1-0 in their best-of-7 Eastern Conference Second Round series against the Montreal Canadiens after a 2-1 win in double-overtime at Bell Centre on Friday.

It was an impressive victory given that it came 48 hours after a Game 7 first-round win against the Detroit Red Wings.

That was a roller-coaster series. Neither team won back-to-back games until the Lightning, in another example of learning of how to win at this time of year, took Game 6 at Detroit and Game 7 at home.

Now they're drawing on that experience to try to win the first two games and take command against the Canadiens with a Game 2 win here Sunday (6 p.m. ET; CBC, TVA Sports, NBCSN).

"I think we learned a lot from, not only this whole season, but certainly in that first playoff series," Tampa Bay defenseman Matthew Carle said Saturday. "There were a lot of ups and downs. No team really took control of the series. No team won back-to-back games. It's something we dealt with all year, being able to respond to adversity."

Lightning coach Jon Cooper said he saw them take another step forward in Game 1. Bell Centre at playoff time has been troublesome for Tampa Bay. It lost twice there last spring, including Game 3 when, with the game tied 1-1, a goal was disallowed because it was ruled Lightning forward Alex Killorn interfered with Canadiens goaltender Carey Price.

The Canadiens scored the next goal, won Game 3, and swept the series.

Friday, Nikita Kucherov had a goal disallowed in the first overtime before scoring 2:06 into the second.

"For us to come and win in this building, especially what happened to us last year," Cooper said. "This series, let's be honest, it's not even close to over, but we just keep overstepping little hurdles. It seems every game we play we're doing something we haven't done before as a group. It's been a ton of fun."

He mentioned the experience the Lightning acquired in the series against the Red Wings and how it could help them going into Game 2.

"We've had a little practice at this. We've learned from this in the sense that we lost Game 1 (against the Red Wings), won Game 2, and maybe exhaled a little bit in Game 3," Cooper said. "You learn from those a little bit. How you react after losses and how react after wins.

"You look (coming into Game 1 against the Canadiens) and say [we] probably had every excuse to maybe not be ready, coming in with short rest. I thought we answered the bell. Now what do you do? Rest on that you've won Game 1 and you've gotten a split? Or do you try and go for the throat and take them both? That's been talked about a lot in our room."

The Lightning, given their schedule lately, did not skate Saturday. They were to have a meeting at night.

"I spent most of the day pretty much horizontal," Carle said. "I watched a couple of hockey games, saw the U.S. team won at the World Championships and watched the (Washington Capitals and New York Rangers) playoff game."

Ryan Callahan

Right Wing - TBL

GOALS: 0 | ASST: 3 | PTS: 3
SOG: 18 | +/-: 5

"In those intermissions you kind of wish there was more time to regroup," he said. "You're running on emotions. Playing in front of a crowd like that, being a playoff game, it's pretty easy to get going. It's after the game you realize how tired you are."

Cooper said he felt like he did a good job, in consultation with his players, of managing their minutes in Game 1.

Defenseman Victor Hedman played 31:32 to lead the Lightning. Montreal defenseman P.K. Subban led the Canadiens at 37:53.

"What was really impressive about the guys, I was on them about how they were feeling," Cooper said. "Almost every shift I was asking the guys, and there's one thing, we've got a pretty honest relationship with each other, saying, 'Don't B.S. me. Don't go out there just because you want to go out. You've got to go out knowing you are going to be OK.' All the guys were really good.

"The minutes weren't that bad. I talked to our guys all during the third and overtime and they just kept giving me the thumbs up, 'Throw us back out there.' They performed."