The Calgary native opened the scoring just over a minute into the contest when he cruised through the slot and tipped a Brandon Carlo shot from the point past Tampa goalie Andre Vasilevskiy.
"I felt like I wasn't trying to stick handle or anything like that," Carlo said of letting the shot go from up top. "There's times where that takes time and just simplifying things, just moving through the middle and letting it go with a wrist shot. Last year, a lot of times we had to do slap shots, so it was nice to be able to get that one through."
Hall followed up with his second of the night in the third period when he whacked a one-timer by Vasilevskiy on the power play just 2:49 into the final frame. The play began with strong work by David Krejci and Pavel Zacha to dig the puck out along the wall ahead of some brilliant passing from Hampus Lindholm and Nick Foligno, the latter of whom began to circle the net before firing a feed to Hall in the middle of the slot.
"It was a great play. That's the second time he's done that this year. He fed [Tomas] Nosek, as well," said Hall. "It's just about following up to the net. Knowing Fliggy has really good hands around the net, he's not going to panic. Ten seconds before that, we won a puck battle on the boards after a face-off and got possession back which was huge."
Hall, who had 20 goals and 61 points last year, is on pace for his second career 30-goal season and first since his 39-goal, Hart Trophy-winning campaign in 2017-18. The former first overall pick believes that Montgomery's offensive system has helped him unleash even more of his skills and instincts in the attacking zone.
"I think we have a little bit more latitude to make more plays East-West in the O-zone," said Hall. "Not as much of a shot-quantity team, more of a shot-quality team. It took a few games, personally, for me to get out of the habits of pucks to the net, shoot from everywhere, never a bad play to put it on net. Where I think Monty, he's made a few adjustments in our game where some shots are bad shots, and we want to control pucks.
"I've gotten a lot better at that. I feel more comfortable with that. And as we get going, you're seeing a lotta guys, their skill sets coming out in different ways, and I think I'm one of them."
Montgomery has long been impressed with Hall dating back to his first season in the league with Dallas in 2018-19, noting that the winger's "pace and purpose" has always been evident.
"It was the season after he was MVP that I first coached in the league…you could tell he was an elite player," said Montgomery. "Coming here, I was excited to work with him because he is older now, as far as where he is, his maturity in his game. And what's important to him now is winning. He wants to win a Cup. He wants to be in a dressing room that values winning, that has that pedigree, and I think it shows in the way he is playing."