Game

Blackhawks at Canadiens

Canadiens 4, Blackhawks 1 · first star Zachary Bolduc (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.

Chicago Blackhawks 1 at Montreal Canadiens 4

Blackhawks CHI

1 FINAL 4

Canadiens MTL

Thursday, December 18, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Centre Bell, Montreal

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Blackhawks	1	0	0	1	15
Canadiens	1	0	3	4	35

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blackhawks attack left, Canadiens attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: CHI 15, MTL 35.

CHI in red MTL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Blackhawks 15 shots on goal (1 goal, 18 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 35 shots on goal (4 goals, 19 missed, 11 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CHI SOG	CHI G	CHI ATT	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT
1st	4	1	12	7	1	18
2nd	6	0	17	16	0	28
3rd	5	0	18	12	3	19
Total	15	1	47	35	4	65

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CHI SOG	CHI G	MTL SOG	MTL G
Even strength	14	1	29	4
Power play	1	0	6	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 58.0% of the shot attempts, and 56.8% of the 95 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 Blackhawks hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blackhawks at Canadiens
Period	MTL CF%	MTL FF%
1st	60.0	69.6
2nd	62.2	60.6
3rd	51.4	58.1
Game	58.0	62.1

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

Scoring summary

1st period

07:27 Frank Nazar (6) Matt Grzelcyk (6), Andre Burakovsky (14) · tip-in 1–0
14:23 Zachary Bolduc (8) Cole Caufield (17), Lane Hutson (24) · snap 1–1

3rd period

00:20 Zachary Bolduc (9) Lane Hutson (25), Nick Suzuki (29) · tip-in 1–2
10:00 Noah Dobson (5) Ivan Demidov (19), Lane Hutson (26) · backhand 1–3
16:29 Nick Suzuki (10) EN Unassisted · snap 1–4

Three stars

Zachary Bolduc MTL · R #76 · 2 G, 0 A
Lane Hutson MTL · D #48 · 0 G, 3 A
Nick Suzuki MTL · C #14 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	04:49	MTL	Noah Dobson	tripping	2	Ryan Greene
2nd	15:12	CHI	Dominic Toninato	hooking	2	Noah Dobson
2nd	18:12	CHI	Frank Nazar	tripping	2	Alexandre Carrier
3rd	10:21	MTL	Arber Xhekaj	slashing	2	Louis Crevier

Boxscore

Chicago Blackhawks

Blackhawks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Frank Nazar #91	C	1	0	1	-1	2	0	1	2	36.4	16:25
Andre Burakovsky #28	L	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	17:42
Matt Grzelcyk #48	D	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	21:12
Colton Dach #34	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	12:17
Dominic Toninato #25	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0.0	08:58
Jason Dickinson #16	C	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	38.9	19:01
Oliver Moore #11	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:39
Ryan Donato #8	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	13:34
Ryan Greene #20	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	50.0	15:07
Teuvo Teravainen #86	C	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	18:24
Nick Lardis #76	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:32
Tyler Bertuzzi #59	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	17:47
Ilya Mikheyev #95	R	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	0	0.0	16:12
Alex Vlasic #72	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	2	0	0.0	20:57
Artyom Levshunov #55	D	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	21:58
Connor Murphy #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	16:40
Louis Crevier #46	D	0	0	0	-2	2	2	0	0	0.0	18:07
Wyatt Kaiser #44	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	17:05

Blackhawks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Spencer Knight #30	L	34	31	3	.912	25/28	6/6	59:23

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	3	3	+3	1	0	0	0	0.0	26:19
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	2	0	2	+2	2	2	0	0	0.0	16:23
Nick Suzuki #14	C	1	1	2	+3	2	0	2	0	53.3	17:23
Noah Dobson #53	D	1	0	1	+1	2	0	2	2	0.0	22:32
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	1	1	+2	4	0	0	0	0.0	16:16
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	1	1	0	5	1	0	0	0.0	16:23
Jake Evans #71	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	88.2	16:27
Joe Veleno #90	C	0	0	0	+1	3	4	2	0	66.7	14:06
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	62.5	15:34
Owen Beck #62	C	0	0	0	+1	0	4	1	0	25.0	11:24
Alexandre Texier #85	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	14:04
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0.0	16:16
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	10:20
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	14:39
Adam Engstrom #42	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	16:13
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	+3	2	0	1	0	0.0	24:58
Arber Xhekaj #72	D	0	0	0	0	1	3	3	2	0.0	16:17
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	0.0	10:26

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	15	14	1	.933	13/14	1/1	60:00

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.