Game

Predators at Canadiens

Canadiens 3, Predators 2 in overtime · first star Cole Caufield (2 G, 0 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Nashville Predators 2 at Montreal Canadiens 3

Predators NSH

2 FINAL/OT 3

Canadiens MTL

Thursday, October 16, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Centre Bell, Montreal

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Predators	0	1	1	0	2	19
Canadiens	0	0	2	1	3	30

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Predators attack left, Canadiens attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: NSH 19, MTL 30.

NSH in red MTL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Predators 19 shots on goal (2 goals, 15 missed, 19 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 30 shots on goal (3 goals, 14 missed, 13 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NSH SOG	NSH G	NSH ATT	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT
1st	6	0	14	6	0	15
2nd	6	1	22	10	0	16
3rd	4	1	12	11	2	20
OT	3	0	5	3	1	6
Total	19	2	53	30	3	57

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NSH SOG	NSH G	MTL SOG	MTL G
Even strength	15	1	27	3
Power play	3	1	3	0
Short-handed	1	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 51.8% of the shot attempts, and 51.3% of the 76 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Canadiens and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Predators hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Predators at Canadiens
Period	MTL CF%	MTL FF%
1st	51.7	45.0
2nd	42.1	53.9
3rd	62.5	65.2
OT	54.5	66.7
Game	51.8	56.4

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

2nd period

11:36 Steven Stamkos (1) PP Roman Josi (3), Luke Evangelista (3) · snap 1–0

3rd period

06:02 Oliver Kapanen (3) Lane Hutson (3), Kaiden Guhle (1) · snap 1–1
11:21 Nick Perbix (2) Michael McCarron (1) · snap 2–1
19:40 Cole Caufield (4) Lane Hutson (4) · snap 2–2

Overtime

04:57 Cole Caufield (5) Nick Suzuki (7), Mike Matheson (3) · snap 2–3

Three stars

Cole Caufield MTL · R #13 · 2 G, 0 A
Nick Suzuki MTL · C #14 · 0 G, 1 A
Lane Hutson MTL · D #48 · 0 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:27	NSH	Tyson Jost	hooking	2	Patrik Laine
2nd	04:46	NSH	Cole Smith	slashing	2	Mike Matheson
2nd	10:05	MTL	Zachary Bolduc	hooking	2	Tyson Jost
2nd	18:25	MTL	Ivan Demidov	holding the stick	2	Spencer Stastney
3rd	14:18	NSH	Michael McCarron	tripping	2	Kirby Dach

Boxscore

Nashville Predators

Predators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Steven Stamkos #91	C	1	0	1	-1	2	1	1	0	83.3	18:14
Nick Perbix #48	D	1	0	1	-1	2	0	1	0	0.0	22:00
Michael McCarron #47	C	0	1	1	+1	1	4	2	2	55.6	14:45
Luke Evangelista #77	R	0	1	1	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	14:51
Roman Josi #59	D	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	28:13
Fedor Svechkov #40	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	33.3	12:15
Ozzy Wiesblatt #89	C	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0	0	0.0	10:11
Ryan O'Reilly #90	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	50.0	20:04
Tyson Jost #17	C	0	0	0	-1	3	1	0	2	100.0	14:31
Erik Haula #56	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	50.0	17:05
Filip Forsberg #9	L	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	0.0	19:09
Michael Bunting #58	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	14:35
Cole Smith #36	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0.0	14:11
Jonathan Marchessault #81	R	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	0	100.0	17:26
Adam Wilsby #83	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	20:55
Brady Skjei #76	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	23:03
Justin Barron #20	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	14:14
Spencer Stastney #24	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:36

Predators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Juuse Saros #74	O	30	27	3	.900	24/27	3/3	64:30

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Cole Caufield #13	R	2	0	2	+2	4	1	1	0	0.0	20:54
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	2	2	+2	1	1	2	0	0.0	24:42
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	1	0	1	+1	3	0	1	0	80.0	11:59
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	1	1	+2	4	0	1	0	41.2	22:54
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	16:10
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	1	1	0	2	2	4	0	0.0	26:21
Alex Newhook #15	C	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:27
Jake Evans #71	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	41.7	13:58
Kirby Dach #77	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	60.0	16:03
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	19:39
Patrik Laine #92	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	100.0	12:10
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	13:49
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	0	0	+2	3	0	0	2	0.0	17:13
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	14:43
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	2	100.0	15:49
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.0	16:22
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	13:52
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	21:37

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	19	17	2	.895	14/15	2/3	63:35

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.