Game

Canadiens at Stars

Canadiens 4, Stars 3 in overtime · first star Juraj Slafkovský (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 Dallas Stars 3

Canadiens MTL

4 FINAL/OT 3

Stars DAL

Sunday, January 4, 2026 · 2:00 PM ET · American Airlines Center, Dallas

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Canadiens	1	2	0	1	4	28
Stars	1	1	1	0	3	27

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Canadiens attack left, Stars 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. Boxscore shots on goal: MTL 28, DAL 27.

MTL in red DAL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Canadiens 28 shots on goal (4 goals, 13 missed, 16 blocked) attacking left; Stars 27 shots on goal (3 goals, 11 missed, 15 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT	DAL SOG	DAL G	DAL ATT
1st	6	1	15	8	1	17
2nd	13	2	27	8	1	13
3rd	5	0	8	9	1	20
OT	4	1	7	2	0	3
Total	28	4	57	27	3	53

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MTL SOG	MTL G	DAL SOG	DAL G
Even strength	21	3	26	3
Power play	7	1	1	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 51.8% of the shot attempts, and 43.8% of the 73 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 Stars 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 Stars
Period	DAL CF%	DAL FF%
1st	53.1	60.9
2nd	32.5	27.6
3rd	71.4	70.0
OT	30.0	28.6
Game	48.2	48.1

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

Scoring summary

1st period

08:42 Brendan Gallagher (3) Phillip Danault (6), Alexandre Carrier (9) · deflected 1–0
13:53 Mavrik Bourque (7) Jason Robertson (25), Roope Hintz (20) · wrap-around 1–1

2nd period

10:14 Wyatt Johnston (21) Mikko Rantanen (41), Thomas Harley (13) · snap 1–2
11:59 Oliver Kapanen (13) Ivan Demidov (26), Juraj Slafkovský (17) · slap 2–2
18:39 Juraj Slafkovský (15) PP Nick Suzuki (32), Lane Hutson (35) · slap 3–2

3rd period

11:07 Wyatt Johnston (22) Miro Heiskanen (29), Matt Duchene (5) · snap 3–3

Overtime

03:40 Lane Hutson (7) Phillip Danault (7) · snap 4–3

Three stars

Juraj Slafkovský MTL · L #20 · 1 G, 1 A
Wyatt Johnston DAL · C #53 · 2 G, 0 A
Oliver Kapanen MTL · C #91 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	16:18	MTL	Ivan Demidov	holding	2	Matt Duchene
1st	19:33	DAL	Jamie Benn	tripping	2	Lane Hutson
2nd	01:36	DAL	Ilya Lyubushkin	hooking	2	Zachary Bolduc
2nd	08:13	MTL	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
2nd	14:00	DAL	Esa Lindell	slashing	2	Sammy Blais
2nd	18:10	DAL	Sam Steel	slashing	2	Lane Hutson
3rd	14:49	MTL	Phillip Danault	hooking	2	Mikko Rantanen
3rd	16:00	DAL	Wyatt Johnston	hooking	2	Noah Dobson

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	+1	4	1	0	0	0.0	20:21
Lane Hutson #48	D	1	1	2	+2	1	2	0	0	0.0	27:58
Phillip Danault #24	C	0	2	2	+1	2	0	1	2	66.7	16:40
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	1	0	1	0	3	0	3	0	30.0	17:24
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	1	0	1	0	4	2	1	0	0.0	15:46
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	1	1	-1	3	1	0	0	21.4	23:49
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	1	1	+2	2	0	0	2	0.0	18:10
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	22:14
Joe Veleno #90	C	0	0	0	-2	0	4	0	0	50.0	14:41
Owen Beck #62	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	50.0	07:17
Alexandre Texier #85	L	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	50.0	15:45
Sammy Blais #27	L	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0.0	08:20
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	18:33
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	11:06
Arber Xhekaj #72	D	0	0	0	+1	1	2	0	0	0.0	09:14
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	+1	0	3	0	0	0.0	07:56
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	0	0	-3	0	2	2	0	0.0	26:38
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	0	0	-2	3	3	6	0	0.0	23:08

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Samuel Montembeault #35	W	27	24	3	.889	23/26	1/1	63:40

Dallas Stars

Stars skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Wyatt Johnston #53	C	2	0	2	+1	3	0	2	2	71.4	22:48
Mavrik Bourque #22	C	1	0	1	+1	5	1	0	0	33.3	16:23
Matt Duchene #95	C	0	1	1	+1	4	0	0	0	50.0	17:34
Roope Hintz #24	C	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	71.4	19:03
Jason Robertson #21	L	0	1	1	+2	2	1	0	0	0.0	23:18
Mikko Rantanen #96	R	0	1	1	+1	1	1	1	0	66.7	22:39
Miro Heiskanen #4	D	0	1	1	+1	5	0	4	0	0.0	27:27
Thomas Harley #55	D	0	1	1	+1	1	2	5	0	0.0	24:24
Justin Hryckowian #49	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	0.0	09:48
Oskar Bäck #10	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	100.0	10:58
Radek Faksa #12	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	57.1	11:47
Sam Steel #18	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	2	0.0	12:57
Adam Erne #73	L	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0.0	08:41
Jamie Benn #14	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	2	50.0	07:46
Alexander Petrovic #28	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	15:25
Esa Lindell #23	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	2	0.0	22:22
Ilya Lyubushkin #46	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	2	0.0	15:27
Nils Lundkvist #5	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	14:05

Stars goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jake Oettinger #29	O	28	24	4	.857	18/21	6/7	63:19

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.