Game

Canadiens at Bruins

Bruins 4, Canadiens 3 · first star Morgan Geekie (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.

Montreal Canadiens 3 at Boston Bruins 4

Canadiens MTL

3 FINAL 4

Bruins BOS

Saturday, January 24, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · TD Garden, Boston · TV SN · NHLN · CBC

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Canadiens	1	2	0	3	25
Bruins	0	2	2	4	20

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Canadiens attack left, Bruins 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 25, BOS 20.

MTL in red BOS in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Canadiens 25 shots on goal (3 goals, 17 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Bruins 20 shots on goal (4 goals, 20 missed, 11 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT	BOS SOG	BOS G	BOS ATT
1st	7	1	16	2	0	16
2nd	9	2	20	11	2	22
3rd	9	0	21	7	2	13
Total	25	3	57	20	4	51

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MTL SOG	MTL G	BOS SOG	BOS G
Even strength	20	1	12	1
Power play	5	2	7	3
Short-handed	0	0	1	0

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 52.8% of the shot attempts, and 53.9% of the 78 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 Bruins 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 Bruins
Period	BOS CF%	BOS FF%
1st	50.0	52.2
2nd	52.4	50.0
3rd	38.2	44.0
Game	47.2	48.8

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

Scoring summary

1st period

06:36 Cole Caufield (27) Mike Matheson (20), Jake Evans (6) · snap 1–0

2nd period

01:45 Viktor Arvidsson (12) PP Fraser Minten (12), Casey Mittelstadt (14) · snap 1–1
07:37 Cole Caufield (28) PP Nick Suzuki (42), Juraj Slafkovský (22) · slap 2–1
09:46 Morgan Geekie (27) PP David Pastrnak (43), Charlie McAvoy (27) · snap 2–2
13:29 Cole Caufield (29) PP Nick Suzuki (43), Lane Hutson (44) · wrist 3–2

3rd period

13:55 Fraser Minten (13) Hampus Lindholm (13), Charlie McAvoy (28) · backhand 3–3
14:07 Morgan Geekie (28) PP Charlie McAvoy (29), Pavel Zacha (22) · slap 3–4

Three stars

Morgan Geekie BOS · C #39 · 2 G, 0 A
Cole Caufield MTL · R #13 · 3 G, 0 A
Fraser Minten BOS · C #93 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	09:28	MTL	Zachary Bolduc	tripping	2	Andrew Peeke
1st	15:33	MTL	Kirby Dach	fighting (major)	5	Jonathan Aspirot
1st	15:33	BOS	Jonathan Aspirot	fighting (major)	5	Kirby Dach
2nd	00:25	MTL	Noah Dobson	interference	2	Casey Mittelstadt
2nd	06:30	BOS	Pavel Zacha	tripping	2	Juraj Slafkovský
2nd	09:02	MTL	Kaiden Guhle	high sticking	2	Sean Kuraly
2nd	12:09	BOS	David Pastrnak	interference	2	Jake Evans
3rd	08:14	BOS	Andrew Peeke	roughing	2	Brendan Gallagher
3rd	14:03	MTL	Alexandre Carrier	holding	2	Tanner Jeannot

Boxscore

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Cole Caufield #13	R	3	0	3	+1	6	0	0	0	100.0	19:14
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	2	2	+1	1	0	1	0	56.2	21:25
Jake Evans #71	C	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	57.1	13:19
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	1	1	0	4	1	0	0	0.0	19:53
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	26:32
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	23:37
Kirby Dach #77	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	5	0.0	07:57
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	28.6	14:43
Phillip Danault #24	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	2	0	45.5	16:11
Alexandre Texier #85	L	0	0	0	+1	2	3	0	0	0.0	16:51
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	11:42
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	19:11
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	100.0	13:05
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	-1	3	3	1	2	0.0	11:17
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	2	0.0	16:47
Arber Xhekaj #72	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	09:19
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	2	0.0	16:27
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	0	0	+1	4	0	0	2	0.0	20:58

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Samuel Montembeault #35	L	20	16	4	.800	11/12	4/7	57:24

Boston Bruins

Bruins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Charlie McAvoy #73	D	0	3	3	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	27:43
Morgan Geekie #39	C	2	0	2	+1	3	2	1	0	33.3	18:37
Fraser Minten #93	C	1	1	2	+1	1	1	0	0	66.7	12:23
Viktor Arvidsson #71	L	1	0	1	0	4	2	2	0	0.0	16:51
Casey Mittelstadt #11	C	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	50.0	17:05
Pavel Zacha #18	C	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	2	41.7	19:38
David Pastrnak #88	R	0	1	1	-1	6	1	0	2	0.0	19:52
Hampus Lindholm #27	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	21:56
Alex Steeves #21	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	08:35
Elias Lindholm #28	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	45.0	19:25
Marat Khusnutdinov #92	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	12:15
Mark Kastelic #47	C	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0	0	80.0	12:26
Sean Kuraly #52	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	50.0	11:59
Tanner Jeannot #84	L	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0.0	10:21
Andrew Peeke #26	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0.0	19:30
Jonathan Aspirot #45	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	5	0.0	14:54
Mason Lohrei #6	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	15:52
Nikita Zadorov #91	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	16:35

Bruins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jeremy Swayman #1	W	25	22	3	.880	19/20	3/5	59:36

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.