Game

Bruins at Canadiens

Canadiens 3, Bruins 2 in overtime · first star Cole Caufield (1 G, 1 A).

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

Boston Bruins 2 at Montreal Canadiens 3

Bruins BOS

2 FINAL/OT 3

Canadiens MTL

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Centre Bell, Montreal

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Bruins	1	1	0	0	2	28
Canadiens	1	1	0	1	3	31

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Bruins 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: BOS 28, MTL 31.

BOS in red MTL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Bruins 28 shots on goal (2 goals, 12 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 31 shots on goal (3 goals, 28 missed, 17 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BOS SOG	BOS G	BOS ATT	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT
1st	13	1	20	13	1	24
2nd	8	1	17	7	1	23
3rd	6	0	17	7	0	24
OT	1	0	1	4	1	5
Total	28	2	55	31	3	76

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BOS SOG	BOS G	MTL SOG	MTL G
Even strength	20	1	28	3
Power play	7	1	1	0
Short-handed	1	0	2	0

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 58.0% of the shot attempts, and 61.3% of the 111 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 Bruins hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Bruins at Canadiens
Period	MTL CF%	MTL FF%
1st	54.5	55.3
2nd	57.5	56.7
3rd	58.5	64.0
OT	83.3	83.3
Game	58.0	59.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

02:22 Pavel Zacha (21) PP David Pastrnak (56), Charlie McAvoy (42) · backhand 1–0
10:31 Nick Suzuki (24) Juraj Slafkovský (32), Cole Caufield (28) · backhand 1–1

2nd period

05:41 Pavel Zacha (22) Viktor Arvidsson (21), Casey Mittelstadt (21) · tip-in 2–1
13:15 Josh Anderson (13) Lane Hutson (57), Brendan Gallagher (15) · tip-in 2–2

Overtime

04:38 Cole Caufield (40) Nick Suzuki (56), Lane Hutson (58) · tip-in 2–3

Three stars

Cole Caufield MTL · R #13 · 1 G, 1 A
Jakub Dobes MTL · G #75 · 0 GA, .929 SV%
Josh Anderson MTL · R #17 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	00:25	MTL	Alexandre Carrier	high sticking double minor	4	Tanner Jeannot
1st	18:47	BOS	Mason Lohrei	slashing	2	Zachary Bolduc
2nd	07:42	MTL	Mike Matheson	high sticking	2	David Pastrnak
2nd	16:21	MTL	Phillip Danault	slashing	2	Nikita Zadorov

Boxscore

Boston Bruins

Bruins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Pavel Zacha #18	C	2	0	2	-1	4	4	0	0	63.6	16:22
Casey Mittelstadt #11	C	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	16:36
Viktor Arvidsson #71	L	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	17:09
David Pastrnak #88	R	0	1	1	-1	2	1	1	0	0.0	24:35
Charlie McAvoy #73	D	0	1	1	-1	3	0	2	0	0.0	26:44
Elias Lindholm #28	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	62.5	19:14
Fraser Minten #93	C	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	28.6	19:42
Marat Khusnutdinov #92	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	16:32
Mark Kastelic #47	C	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0.0	11:37
Michael Eyssimont #81	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	12:13
Morgan Geekie #39	C	0	0	0	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	15:53
Sean Kuraly #52	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	50.0	12:14
Tanner Jeannot #84	L	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0.0	12:00
Andrew Peeke #26	D	0	0	0	-1	3	3	3	0	0.0	16:44
Hampus Lindholm #27	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	19:48
Jonathan Aspirot #45	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0.0	16:21
Mason Lohrei #6	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	21:03
Nikita Zadorov #91	D	0	0	0	-1	1	2	2	0	0.0	17:07

Bruins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jeremy Swayman #1	O	31	28	3	.903	25/28	1/1	64:38

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nick Suzuki #14	C	1	1	2	+2	3	1	0	0	58.3	24:18
Cole Caufield #13	R	1	1	2	+2	4	0	1	0	0.0	19:58
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	2	2	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	21:41
Josh Anderson #17	R	1	0	1	+1	3	4	0	0	0.0	13:21
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	1	1	+1	3	1	1	0	0.0	19:33
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	1	1	+1	2	6	1	0	0.0	10:39
Alex Newhook #15	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	33.3	09:14
Jake Evans #71	C	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	53.3	17:29
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	3	0	16.7	13:20
Phillip Danault #24	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	2	68.8	14:45
Alexandre Texier #85	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	13:37
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	12:39
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	14:00
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0.0	18:19
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	13:40
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	0	0	+1	2	2	0	0	0.0	22:22
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0.0	23:16
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	0	0	0	3	2	3	0	0.0	24:02

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	28	26	2	.929	19/20	6/7	64:22

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.