Game

Avalanche at Canadiens

Canadiens 7, Avalanche 3 · first star Nick Suzuki (2 G, 1 A).

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

Colorado Avalanche 3 at Montreal Canadiens 7

Avalanche COL

3 FINAL 7

Canadiens MTL

Thursday, January 29, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Centre Bell, Montreal

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Avalanche	1	1	1	3	29
Canadiens	3	2	2	7	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Avalanche attack left, Canadiens attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so a mark in a team's own end would be an attempt logged from there (none in this game). Boxscore shots on goal: COL 29, MTL 28.

COL in red MTL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Avalanche 29 shots on goal (3 goals, 11 missed, 22 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 28 shots on goal (7 goals, 15 missed, 9 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT
1st	5	1	17	9	3	12
2nd	12	1	21	12	2	18
3rd	12	1	24	7	2	22
Total	29	3	62	28	7	52

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	COL SOG	COL G	MTL SOG	MTL G
Even strength	26	3	24	5
Power play	3	0	3	1
Short-handed	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 54.4% of the shot attempts, and 55.2% of the 105 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 Avalanche hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Avalanche at Canadiens
Period	MTL CF%	MTL FF%
1st	41.4	52.4
2nd	46.1	50.0
3rd	47.8	53.1
Game	45.6	51.8

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

Scoring summary

1st period

00:56 Noah Dobson (10) Lane Hutson (45), Juraj Slafkovský (23) · snap 0–1
04:09 Brock Nelson (28) Josh Manson (18), Samuel Girard (9) · snap 1–1
05:51 Nick Suzuki (17) PP Ivan Demidov (33), Lane Hutson (46) · snap 1–2
07:33 Nick Suzuki (18) SH Oliver Kapanen (12), Mike Matheson (22) · backhand 1–3

2nd period

16:36 Jake Evans (7) Kaiden Guhle (3), Zachary Bolduc (11) · snap 1–4
17:16 Kirby Dach (6) Zachary Bolduc (12) · snap 1–5
18:06 Joel Kiviranta (2) Sam Malinski (22), Jack Drury (10) · snap 2–5

3rd period

04:38 Ross Colton (6) Valeri Nichushkin (18) · snap 3–5
05:45 Alexandre Carrier (6) Nick Suzuki (44), Kirby Dach (3) · snap 3–6
09:55 Juraj Slafkovský (20) Oliver Kapanen (13), Ivan Demidov (34) · snap 3–7

Three stars

Nick Suzuki MTL · C #14 · 2 G, 1 A
Jakub Dobes MTL · G #75 · 0 GA, .897 SV%
Juraj Slafkovský MTL · L #20 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	05:24	COL	Keaton Middleton	cross checking	2	Kirby Dach
1st	06:14	MTL	Josh Anderson	tripping	2	Martin Necas
2nd	00:37	MTL	Cole Caufield	high sticking	2	Artturi Lehkonen
2nd	03:14	COL	Sam Malinski	high sticking	2	Ivan Demidov
3rd	19:39	MTL	Arber Xhekaj	roughing	2	Keaton Middleton
3rd	19:39	COL	Keaton Middleton	roughing	2	Arber Xhekaj

Boxscore

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brock Nelson #11	C	1	0	1	-2	1	2	0	0	46.2	17:10
Ross Colton #20	C	1	0	1	-1	2	3	1	0	0.0	12:37
Joel Kiviranta #94	L	1	0	1	+1	1	2	0	0	0.0	11:14
Jack Drury #18	C	0	1	1	+1	0	2	0	0	72.7	14:20
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	0	1	1	-1	0	2	0	0	0.0	15:13
Josh Manson #42	D	0	1	1	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	19:13
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	1	1	+1	4	0	0	2	0.0	21:00
Samuel Girard #49	D	0	1	1	+1	3	1	2	0	0.0	17:28
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	11:37
Martin Necas #88	C	0	0	0	-3	3	0	0	0	0.0	20:57
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	0	0	0	-3	2	0	0	0	42.9	21:09
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	0	1	8	1	0	40.0	13:11
Zakhar Bardakov #93	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	10:17
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	0	0	0	-2	4	2	1	0	0.0	17:55
Victor Olofsson #95	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:21
Brent Burns #84	D	0	0	0	-3	1	0	2	0	0.0	21:30
Cale Makar #8	D	0	0	0	-2	3	0	0	0	0.0	24:02
Keaton Middleton #67	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	4	0.0	12:58

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Scott Wedgewood #41	L	28	21	7	.750	19/24	2/3	60:00

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nick Suzuki #14	C	2	1	3	+2	4	1	2	0	57.1	17:42
Kirby Dach #77	C	1	1	2	+3	2	0	1	0	50.0	14:36
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	1	1	2	+1	4	1	2	0	0.0	16:57
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	2	2	+3	0	0	1	0	55.6	14:24
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	15:05
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	2	2	+2	3	0	2	0	0.0	15:12
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	2	2	+2	0	0	2	0	0.0	20:23
Jake Evans #71	C	1	0	1	+1	1	1	2	0	53.3	16:12
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	1	0	1	+1	2	1	2	0	0.0	19:26
Noah Dobson #53	D	1	0	1	+2	5	2	2	0	0.0	19:34
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	22:56
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	1	1	+2	2	1	1	0	0.0	21:36
Phillip Danault #24	C	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	50.0	14:50
Alexandre Texier #85	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	14:33
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	-1	0	4	2	0	100.0	13:25
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	0	0	+1	0	3	0	2	0.0	12:49
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	2	0.0	12:36
Arber Xhekaj #72	D	0	0	0	-1	0	4	0	2	0.0	13:38

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	29	26	3	.897	23/26	3/3	59:45

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.