Game

Wild at Canadiens

Canadiens 4, Wild 3 · first star Cole Caufield (1 G, 0 A).

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

Minnesota Wild 3 at Montreal Canadiens 4

Wild MIN

3 FINAL 4

Canadiens MTL

Tuesday, January 20, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Centre Bell, Montreal

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Wild	1	1	1	3	20
Canadiens	2	1	1	4	33

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Wild attack left, Canadiens attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 3 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: MIN 20, MTL 33.

MIN in red MTL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Wild 20 shots on goal (3 goals, 14 missed, 13 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 33 shots on goal (4 goals, 16 missed, 26 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT
1st	2	1	10	15	2	32
2nd	10	1	18	9	1	24
3rd	8	1	19	9	1	19
Total	20	3	47	33	4	75

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MIN SOG	MIN G	MTL SOG	MTL G
Even strength	15	1	32	4
Power play	4	2	1	0
Short-handed	1	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 61.5% of the shot attempts, and 67.3% of the 107 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 Wild hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Wild at Canadiens
Period	MTL CF%	MTL FF%
1st	76.2	75.0
2nd	57.1	41.7
3rd	50.0	55.6
Game	61.5	59.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

10:44 Vladimir Tarasenko (12) PP Mats Zuccarello (19), Quinn Hughes (40) · snap 1–0
15:22 Phillip Danault (1) Josh Anderson (6), Kaiden Guhle (2) · snap 1–1
19:08 Alexandre Carrier (5) Mike Matheson (18), Ivan Demidov (31) · tip-in 1–2

2nd period

10:16 Brock Faber (11) Kirill Kaprizov (33), Vinnie Hinostroza (6) · snap 2–2
12:35 Lane Hutson (9) Ivan Demidov (32), Jayden Struble (7) · slap 2–3

3rd period

12:40 Vladimir Tarasenko (13) PP Kirill Kaprizov (34), Mats Zuccarello (20) · snap 3–3
19:45 Cole Caufield (25) Nick Suzuki (40), Lane Hutson (43) · slap 3–4

Three stars

Cole Caufield MTL · R #13 · 1 G, 0 A
Alexandre Carrier MTL · D #45 · 1 G, 0 A
Ivan Demidov MTL · R #93 · 0 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	10:29	MTL	Phillip Danault	slashing	2	Brock Faber
1st	15:53	MIN	Ryan Hartman	tripping	2	Kirby Dach
2nd	18:21	MIN	Ryan Hartman	interference	2	Nick Suzuki
2nd	18:47	MTL	Lane Hutson	tripping	2	Marcus Foligno
3rd	04:45	MIN	Nico Sturm	tripping	2	Nick Suzuki
3rd	10:33	MTL	Lane Hutson	hooking	2	Yakov Trenin
3rd	11:49	MTL	Mike Matheson	tripping	2	Mats Zuccarello

Boxscore

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	2	0	2	-2	3	1	1	0	0.0	15:46
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	23:40
Mats Zuccarello #36	R	0	2	2	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	21:52
Brock Faber #7	D	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	27:47
Vinnie Hinostroza #18	C	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	13:30
Quinn Hughes #43	D	0	1	1	0	2	0	3	0	0.0	30:03
Ben Jones #39	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	3	0	66.7	07:19
Hunter Haight #37	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	37.5	11:34
Nico Sturm #78	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	2	53.8	11:27
Tyler Pitlick #19	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	06:13
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	0	0	-3	2	6	2	0	50.0	15:59
Marcus Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0.0	15:50
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	45.5	13:26
Ryan Hartman #38	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	50.0	20:44
Daemon Hunt #48	D	0	0	0	-2	2	0	3	0	0.0	11:02
David Spacek #82	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	0	0.0	09:31
Jake Middleton #5	D	0	0	0	-2	2	2	1	0	0.0	19:54
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	19:29

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jesper Wallstedt #30	L	33	29	4	.879	28/32	1/1	58:54

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Lane Hutson #48	D	1	1	2	+2	2	0	0	4	0.0	19:29
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	2	2	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	15:07
Phillip Danault #24	C	1	0	1	+3	1	0	0	2	66.7	14:53
Cole Caufield #13	R	1	0	1	+1	4	0	1	0	0.0	18:37
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	1	0	1	+1	5	1	0	0	0.0	18:01
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	1	1	+1	1	1	2	0	47.8	20:10
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	1	1	+1	1	2	0	0	0.0	12:11
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	1	1	+1	0	4	0	0	0.0	11:08
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	1	1	0	2	2	1	0	0.0	19:31
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	2	2	0.0	23:40
Jake Evans #71	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	50.0	14:03
Joe Veleno #90	C	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	28.6	13:54
Kirby Dach #77	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	3	0	0.0	16:46
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	57.1	13:24
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	17:08
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	11:55
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:57
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	0	0	+1	1	1	1	0	0.0	24:00

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	20	17	3	.850	14/15	2/4	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.