Game

Canadiens at Golden Knights

Canadiens 4, Golden Knights 1 · first star Cole Caufield (1 G, 1 A).

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

Montreal Canadiens 4 at Vegas Golden Knights 1

Canadiens MTL

4 FINAL 1

Golden Knights VGK

Friday, November 28, 2025 · 4:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Canadiens	1	1	2	4	19
Golden Knights	0	0	1	1	31

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Canadiens attack left, Golden Knights 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: MTL 19, VGK 31.

MTL in red VGK in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Canadiens 19 shots on goal (4 goals, 14 missed, 8 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 31 shots on goal (1 goal, 19 missed, 25 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT
1st	6	1	11	11	0	29
2nd	5	1	16	11	0	24
3rd	8	2	14	9	1	22
Total	19	4	41	31	1	75

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MTL SOG	MTL G	VGK SOG	VGK G
Even strength	19	4	26	1
Power play	0	0	5	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 64.7% of the shot attempts, and 63.3% of the 98 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 Golden Knights and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Canadiens hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Canadiens at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	72.5	67.9
2nd	60.0	60.6
3rd	61.1	50.0
Game	64.7	60.2

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

Scoring summary

1st period

14:30 Zachary Bolduc (6) Juraj Slafkovský (5), Cole Caufield (11) · wrist 1–0

2nd period

02:04 Cole Caufield (14) Zachary Bolduc (6), Alexandre Carrier (7) · snap 2–0

3rd period

03:36 Jake Evans (4) Alexandre Texier (2), Mike Matheson (11) · wrist 3–0
15:16 Mark Stone (4) Mitch Marner (19), Ben Hutton (4) · wrist 3–1
18:03 Juraj Slafkovský (7) EN Nick Suzuki (20) · wrist 4–1

Three stars

Cole Caufield MTL · R #13 · 1 G, 1 A
Samuel Montembeault MTL · G #35 · 0 GA, .968 SV%
Mark Stone VGK · R #61 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	08:45	MTL	Mike Matheson	slashing	2	Shea Theodore
2nd	12:41	MTL	Arber Xhekaj	roughing	2	Keegan Kolesar
2nd	12:41	VGK	Keegan Kolesar	roughing	2	Arber Xhekaj
2nd	19:12	VGK	Ben Hutton	delaying game puck over glass	2	—

Boxscore

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	1	1	2	+2	1	2	0	0	0.0	15:28
Cole Caufield #13	R	1	1	2	+2	2	0	1	0	0.0	17:04
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	1	1	2	+2	3	0	0	0	0.0	15:01
Jake Evans #71	C	1	0	1	0	3	2	2	0	38.5	17:03
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	1	1	+3	0	0	0	0	64.3	19:29
Alexandre Texier #85	L	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	13:41
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	1	1	+2	0	1	2	0	0.0	16:59
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	1	1	+1	1	1	3	2	0.0	23:54
Joe Veleno #90	C	0	0	0	+1	1	5	0	0	40.0	12:52
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	33.3	13:23
Florian Xhekaj #63	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	11:02
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	13:56
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	12:07
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.0	15:55
Arber Xhekaj #72	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0.0	11:15
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	17:09
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	0	0	+2	0	0	2	0	0.0	25:13
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	0	0	+1	1	2	6	0	0.0	25:01

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Samuel Montembeault #35	W	31	30	1	.968	25/26	5/5	59:28

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Mark Stone #61	R	1	0	1	-1	2	0	0	0	100.0	17:46
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	1	1	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	16:24
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	1	1	+1	0	1	1	2	0.0	14:31
Brett Howden #21	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	70.0	15:09
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	64.3	12:30
Jack Eichel #9	C	0	0	0	-2	7	1	0	0	44.4	20:00
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	0	0	-2	7	4	0	0	63.6	16:01
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	11:43
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	0	0	-1	4	1	1	0	0.0	17:11
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	17:40
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0	11:07
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	0	0	0	-2	4	0	0	0	0.0	15:08
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:24
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	-3	0	1	0	0	0.0	18:50
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	17:16
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	23:54
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	0	0	-3	0	0	2	0	0.0	24:38
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	16:00

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Akira Schmid #40	L	18	15	3	.833	15/18	0/0	58:48

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.