Game

Canucks at Canadiens

Canadiens 6, Canucks 3 · first star Alexandre Carrier (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.

Vancouver Canucks 3 at Montreal Canadiens 6

Canucks VAN

3 FINAL 6

Canadiens MTL

Monday, January 12, 2026 · 7:30 PM ET · Centre Bell, Montreal · TV Prime

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Canucks	1	2	0	3	23
Canadiens	1	2	3	6	41

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Canucks 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. Boxscore shots on goal: VAN 23, MTL 41.

VAN in red MTL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Canucks 23 shots on goal (3 goals, 11 missed, 26 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 41 shots on goal (6 goals, 16 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	VAN SOG	VAN G	VAN ATT	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT
1st	7	1	19	13	1	22
2nd	7	2	14	14	2	29
3rd	9	0	27	14	3	18
Total	23	3	60	41	6	69

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	VAN SOG	VAN G	MTL SOG	MTL G
Even strength	18	3	40	5
Power play	5	0	1	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 53.5% of the shot attempts, and 58.6% of the 116 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 Canucks hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Canucks at Canadiens
Period	MTL CF%	MTL FF%
1st	53.7	66.7
2nd	67.4	67.7
3rd	40.0	54.5
Game	53.5	62.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

11:53 Elias Pettersson (12) Linus Karlsson (10), Filip Hronek (24) · snap 1–0
18:13 Noah Dobson (9) PP Nick Suzuki (35) · snap 1–1

2nd period

01:50 Evander Kane (7) Aatu Räty (9) · snap 2–1
04:31 Alexandre Carrier (2) Nick Suzuki (36), Alexandre Texier (9) · snap 2–2
04:51 Alexandre Carrier (3) Juraj Slafkovský (20), Ivan Demidov (27) · snap 2–3
09:42 Max Sasson (9) Drew O'Connor (7), Pierre-Olivier Joseph (2) · snap 3–3

3rd period

00:29 Mike Matheson (5) Cole Caufield (22), Alexandre Texier (10) · snap 3–4
01:07 Juraj Slafkovský (17) Ivan Demidov (28), Lane Hutson (37) · snap 3–5
06:05 Oliver Kapanen (16) Ivan Demidov (29), Juraj Slafkovský (21) · snap 3–6

Three stars

Alexandre Carrier MTL · D #45 · 2 G, 0 A
Juraj Slafkovský MTL · L #20 · 1 G, 2 A
Ivan Demidov MTL · R #93 · 0 G, 3 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	18:09	VAN	Brock Boeser	hooking	2	Phillip Danault
3rd	10:19	MTL	Alexandre Carrier	cross checking	2	Liam Ohgren
3rd	17:48	MTL	Noah Dobson	hooking	2	Nils Hoglander

Boxscore

Vancouver Canucks

Canucks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Elias Pettersson #40	C	1	0	1	-1	4	0	2	0	38.1	16:41
Max Sasson #63	C	1	0	1	+1	1	1	0	0	60.0	14:31
Evander Kane #91	L	1	0	1	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:33
Aatu Räty #54	C	0	1	1	0	1	4	0	0	28.6	12:25
Linus Karlsson #94	C	0	1	1	-1	1	1	0	0	100.0	15:34
Drew O'Connor #18	L	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:40
Filip Hronek #17	D	0	1	1	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	21:16
Pierre-Olivier Joseph #7	D	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	17:15
David Kampf #64	C	0	0	0	-2	1	2	0	0	54.5	16:45
Jake DeBrusk #74	L	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	0.0	14:51
Liam Ohgren #92	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:37
Nils Hoglander #21	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	11:22
Brock Boeser #6	R	0	0	0	-2	3	0	1	2	0.0	21:41
Conor Garland #8	R	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	18:33
Marcus Pettersson #29	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	0.0	22:45
Tom Willander #5	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	18:32
Tyler Myers #57	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	19:47
Victor Mancini #90	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	18:08

Canucks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Nikita Tolopilo #60	L	41	35	6	.854	35/40	0/1	60:00

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	1	2	3	+2	1	1	2	0	0.0	14:44
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	3	3	+3	3	0	0	0	0.0	14:27
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	2	0	2	+3	3	0	3	2	0.0	20:01
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	2	2	+2	1	1	1	0	61.1	17:06
Alexandre Texier #85	L	0	2	2	+1	2	1	1	0	0.0	18:21
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	1	0	1	+2	5	0	1	0	70.0	16:21
Mike Matheson #8	D	1	0	1	+3	2	2	2	0	0.0	23:04
Noah Dobson #53	D	1	0	1	+2	4	1	4	2	0.0	22:18
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	1	1	+2	4	2	0	0	0.0	16:16
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	20:01
Joe Veleno #90	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	100.0	12:40
Owen Beck #62	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	50.0	11:03
Phillip Danault #24	C	0	0	0	-2	6	0	4	0	46.2	16:34
Sammy Blais #27	L	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0.0	11:06
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	-2	3	0	0	0	0.0	13:39
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	-2	1	4	1	0	33.3	13:29
Arber Xhekaj #72	D	0	0	0	-3	1	6	2	0	0.0	14:54
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	0	0	-2	2	0	1	0	0.0	19:56

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	23	20	3	.870	15/18	5/5	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.