Montréal Canadiens

48-24-10 · 106 pts · 2025-26

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3.40

GF/GP

7th

3.06

GA/GP

16th

23.1%

PP%

10th

78.2%

PK%

18th

64.6%

Pt%

5th

51.0%

FO%

10th

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Line updates

No reported line changes. Practice-line reports appear here in season.

Injury updates

No injury news. Current statuses are listed below.

Other news6

NHL transactions · 7/5

Patrik Laine off MTL roster

NHL transactions · 7/5

Joe Veleno off MTL roster

NHL transactions · 6/26

Acquired F Brett Berard from the N.Y. Rangers for D William Trudeau.

NHL transactions · 6/25

Acquired F Hunter McKown from Columbus Blue Jackets for F Luke Tuch.

NHL transactions · 5/11

Recalled Fs Florian Xhekaj and Owen Beck and Ds Adam Engström and David Reinbacher from Laval (AHL).

NHL transactions · 5/4

Assigned D Adam Engström to Laval (AHL).

ScheduleSOS avg (0.98)1 off-nights (◐)

This week (4)

Date	Opp	GF	GA	xGF	xGA	Matchup
4/4	@ NYI	2.79	2.88	3.04	3.22	neutral
4/6	@ FLA	3	3.34	3.08	2.96	good
4/8	@ TBL	3.49	2.79	3.32	2.94	neutral
4/10	@ OTT	3.35	2.99	3.36	2.71	neutral

Next week (3)

Date	Opp	GF	GA	xGF	xGA	Matchup
3/28◐	vs DET	2.91	3.1	3.13	3.01	neutral
3/30	@ BOS	3.27	3.01	2.89	3.3	neutral
4/1	vs NYR	2.87	3.04	2.67	3.15	neutral

Projected lineup

Forward lines

Line 1

Juraj Slafkovský · Cole Caufield · Nick Suzuki

Line 2

Ivan Demidov · Oliver Kapanen · Phillip Danault

Line 3

Zachary Bolduc · Alex Newhook · Kirby Dach

Line 4

Jake Evans · Alexandre Texier · Josh Anderson

Defense pairs

Pair 1

Noah Dobson · Mike Matheson

Pair 2

Lane Hutson · Jayden Struble

Pair 3

Alexandre Carrier · Kaiden Guhle

Goalies

Jakub Dobes · Samuel Montembeault · Jacob Fowler

Special teams

Power play 1

Juraj Slafkovský · Cole Caufield · Nick Suzuki · Ivan Demidov · Lane Hutson

Power play 2

Noah Dobson · Mike Matheson · Zachary Bolduc · Alex Newhook · Kirby Dach

Penalty kill

Jake Evans · Noah Dobson · Nick Suzuki · Lane Hutson · Jayden Struble · Mike Matheson · Oliver Kapanen · Josh Anderson · Alexandre Carrier · Phillip Danault · Alex Newhook · Kaiden Guhle

On-ice units (5v5 · % of the least-used member’s ice time)

Forward lines (3F)

Unit	Together	Share	xGF%
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Juraj Slafkovský	564m	47%	53%
Oliver Kapanen · Juraj Slafkovský · Ivan Demidov	326m	33%	51%
Alex Newhook · Oliver Kapanen · Ivan Demidov	283m	54%	41%
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Zachary Bolduc	175m	19%	49%
Nick Suzuki · Alexandre Texier · Cole Caufield	154m	24%	58%
Jake Evans · Kirby Dach · Zachary Bolduc	104m	23%	48%
Josh Anderson · Jake Evans · Zachary Bolduc	94m	11%	50%
Jake Evans · Alexandre Texier · Zachary Bolduc	81m	13%	64%

Defence pairs (2D)

Unit	Together	Share	xGF%
Mike Matheson · Noah Dobson	942m	62%	43%
Jayden Struble · Lane Hutson	540m	66%	55%
Alexandre Carrier · Lane Hutson	328m	28%	55%
Noah Dobson · Lane Hutson	279m	18%	60%
Alexandre Carrier · Arber Xhekaj	219m	30%	49%
Alexandre Carrier · Kaiden Guhle	208m	30%	61%

Team leaders · click a column to sort

Player	Pos	P ▼	G	A	PPG	SOG	HIT	BLK	PIM	+/-	GP
Nick Suzuki	C	101	29	72	11	183	62	62	28	37	82
Cole Caufield	R	88	51	37	11	258	50	21	14	29	81
Lane Hutson	D	78	12	66	2	124	31	137	34	36	82
Juraj Slafkovský	L	73	30	43	15	180	105	78	52	9	82
Ivan Demidov	R	62	19	43	7	127	28	26	34	3	82
Noah Dobson	D	47	12	35	2	158	62	188	34	5	80
Oliver Kapanen	C	37	22	15	1	131	32	68	22	4	82
Mike Matheson	D	37	7	30	0	114	59	150	34	9	78
Zachary Bolduc	R	30	12	18	3	101	170	43	28	-6	78
Alex Newhook	C	25	13	12	2	61	48	17	10	9	42
Jake Evans	C	24	12	12	0	75	89	50	28	-8	68
Josh Anderson	R	23	14	9	0	89	129	43	90	-4	72
Alexandre Carrier	D	22	7	15	0	56	35	155	34	2	73
Alexandre Texier	L	21	8	13	0	74	65	15	26	9	51
Phillip Danault	C	17	6	11	0	91	63	40	26	-3	75
Kirby Dach	C	15	8	7	0	47	53	30	31	-2	37
Jayden Struble	D	12	2	10	0	26	115	32	58	4	59
Kaiden Guhle	D	11	2	9	0	40	86	63	41	5	39
Arber Xhekaj	D	4	1	3	0	40	178	43	116	-8	65
Adam Engstrom	D	1	0	1	0	11	7	8	8	2	15
Florian Xhekaj	L	1	0	1	0	4	9	4	7	-1	5
Owen Beck	C	1	1	0	0	11	24	8	6	4	15
David Reinbacher	D	1	0	1	0	3	1	2	0	0	2