Game

Canadiens at Sharks

Sharks 7, Canadiens 5 · first star Macklin Celebrini (1 G, 3 A).

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

Montreal Canadiens 5 at San Jose Sharks 7

Canadiens MTL

5 FINAL 7

Sharks SJS

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 · 10:00 PM ET · SAP Center at San Jose, San Jose

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Canadiens	1	1	3	5	36
Sharks	1	3	3	7	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Canadiens attack left, Sharks 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: MTL 36, SJS 28.

MTL in red SJS in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Canadiens 36 shots on goal (5 goals, 21 missed, 12 blocked) attacking left; Sharks 28 shots on goal (7 goals, 9 missed, 19 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT	SJS SOG	SJS G	SJS ATT
1st	8	1	16	8	1	19
2nd	10	1	20	9	3	17
3rd	18	3	33	11	3	20
Total	36	5	69	28	7	56

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MTL SOG	MTL G	SJS SOG	SJS G
Even strength	24	3	18	5
Power play	9	2	9	2
Short-handed	3	0	1	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 55.2% of the shot attempts, and 50.0% of the 76 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 Sharks 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 Sharks
Period	SJS CF%	SJS FF%
1st	54.3	52.0
2nd	46.0	42.3
3rd	37.7	30.2
Game	44.8	39.4

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

Scoring summary

1st period

06:18 Oliver Kapanen (19) Juraj Slafkovský (26), Mike Matheson (24) · wrist 1–0
15:32 Collin Graf (16) Will Smith (24), Macklin Celebrini (55) · backhand 1–1

2nd period

05:09 Phillip Danault (4) Mike Matheson (25), Jake Evans (7) · tip-in 2–1
10:28 Michael Misa (5) Unassisted · wrist 2–2
18:23 Macklin Celebrini (30) Collin Graf (18) · wrist 2–3
18:48 Alexander Wennberg (12) Kiefer Sherwood (7) · wrist 2–4

3rd period

03:29 Will Smith (19) PP Macklin Celebrini (56), Dmitry Orlov (23) · wrist 2–5
05:02 Ivan Demidov (13) PP Lane Hutson (50), Nick Suzuki (50) · slap 3–5
05:20 Alex Newhook (7) Jake Evans (8), Kaiden Guhle (4) · wrist 4–5
10:56 Alex Newhook (8) PP Brendan Gallagher (14), Mike Matheson (26) · wrist 5–5
16:34 Kiefer Sherwood (18) PP Philipp Kurashev (12), William Eklund (27) · wrist 5–6
19:56 Adam Gaudette (14) EN Macklin Celebrini (57) · wrist 5–7

Three stars

Macklin Celebrini SJS · C #71 · 1 G, 3 A
Will Smith SJS · C #2 · 1 G, 1 A
Kiefer Sherwood SJS · L #44 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	11:42	MTL	Nick Suzuki	interference	2	Vincent Desharnais
2nd	02:13	SJS	Collin Graf	tripping	2	Lane Hutson
2nd	06:55	SJS	Macklin Celebrini	hooking	2	Cole Caufield
2nd	12:33	MTL	Oliver Kapanen	slashing	2	Dmitry Orlov
2nd	13:32	SJS	Alexander Wennberg	tripping	2	Jake Evans
3rd	02:43	MTL	Josh Anderson	roughing	2	Kiefer Sherwood
3rd	02:43	SJS	Mario Ferraro	roughing	2	Jayden Struble
3rd	02:43	MTL	Jayden Struble	roughing	2	Mario Ferraro
3rd	03:54	SJS	Vincent Desharnais	cross checking	2	Kirby Dach
3rd	08:58	SJS	Sam Dickinson	tripping	2	Ivan Demidov
3rd	11:41	SJS	Adam Gaudette	interference goalkeeper	2	Jakub Dobes
3rd	11:41	MTL	Kirby Dach	roughing	2	Adam Gaudette
3rd	15:03	MTL	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—

Boxscore

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	3	3	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	24:18
Alex Newhook #15	C	2	0	2	+1	3	1	1	0	37.5	15:53
Jake Evans #71	C	0	2	2	+2	0	1	1	0	84.6	15:36
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	1	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	62.5	09:55
Phillip Danault #24	C	1	0	1	-1	1	1	0	0	50.0	13:46
Ivan Demidov #93	R	1	0	1	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	15:43
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	1	1	-3	4	0	1	2	45.8	22:26
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	1	1	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	18:31
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	1	1	-1	3	2	1	0	0.0	11:17
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	1	1	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	20:14
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	1	1	-1	1	1	2	0	0.0	25:03
Kirby Dach #77	C	0	0	0	-2	0	3	0	2	0.0	14:32
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	0	0	-3	3	0	0	0	0.0	20:48
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	0	4	3	1	2	0.0	10:04
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	+1	0	4	0	0	0.0	13:10
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	5	0	0.0	12:39
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	2	0.0	08:47
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0.0	20:58

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	L	27	21	6	.778	13/17	7/9	58:03

San Jose Sharks

Sharks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Macklin Celebrini #71	C	1	3	4	0	7	1	1	2	33.3	22:49
Will Smith #2	C	1	1	2	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	19:37
Kiefer Sherwood #44	L	1	1	2	+1	4	5	0	0	0.0	13:46
Collin Graf #51	R	1	1	2	-1	3	2	0	2	0.0	13:11
Alexander Wennberg #21	C	1	0	1	+2	3	0	1	2	45.0	18:54
Michael Misa #77	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	0	37.5	12:37
Adam Gaudette #81	R	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	2	77.8	10:32
Philipp Kurashev #96	C	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	12:58
William Eklund #72	L	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	14:43
Dmitry Orlov #9	D	0	1	1	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	19:44
Barclay Goodrow #23	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	11:41
Tyler Toffoli #73	C	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	11:54
Zack Ostapchuk #63	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	50.0	11:37
John Klingberg #3	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:56
Mario Ferraro #38	D	0	0	0	+2	1	2	2	2	0.0	22:25
Sam Dickinson #6	D	0	0	0	+1	1	2	1	2	0.0	16:51
Shakir Mukhamadullin #85	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0	0	0.0	19:06
Vincent Desharnais #5	D	0	0	0	+2	0	1	2	2	0.0	20:45

Sharks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Yaroslav Askarov #30	W	36	31	5	.861	21/24	7/9	59:48

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.