Game

Canadiens at Red Wings

Red Wings 3, Canadiens 1 · first star Alex DeBrincat (1 G, 2 A).

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

Montreal Canadiens 1 at Detroit Red Wings 3

Canadiens MTL

1 FINAL 3

Red Wings DET

Thursday, March 19, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Little Caesars Arena, Detroit

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Canadiens	0	1	0	1	33
Red Wings	0	0	3	3	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Canadiens attack left, Red Wings 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 33, DET 28.

MTL in red DET in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Canadiens 33 shots on goal (1 goal, 18 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Red Wings 28 shots on goal (3 goals, 21 missed, 15 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT	DET SOG	DET G	DET ATT
1st	12	0	20	8	0	16
2nd	10	1	23	7	0	23
3rd	11	0	22	13	3	25
Total	33	1	65	28	3	64

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MTL SOG	MTL G	DET SOG	DET G
Even strength	28	0	25	3
Power play	2	1	3	0
Short-handed	3	0	0	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 50.4% of the shot attempts, and 54.0% of the 100 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 Red Wings 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 Red Wings
Period	DET CF%	DET FF%
1st	44.4	43.3
2nd	50.0	52.9
3rd	53.2	50.0
Game	49.6	49.0

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

17:45 Juraj Slafkovský (25) PP Cole Caufield (29), Nick Suzuki (57) · snap 1–0

3rd period

02:14 J.T. Compher (10) Patrick Kane (29), Alex DeBrincat (37) · deflected 1–1
16:35 Alex DeBrincat (34) Unassisted · backhand 1–2
19:43 Andrew Copp (9) EN Alex DeBrincat (38) · wrist 1–3

Three stars

Alex DeBrincat DET · R #93 · 1 G, 2 A
J.T. Compher DET · L #37 · 1 G, 0 A
Juraj Slafkovský MTL · L #20 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	09:35	DET	James van Riemsdyk	roughing	2	Kaiden Guhle
1st	09:35	MTL	Kaiden Guhle	interference	2	James van Riemsdyk
1st	17:39	DET	Ben Chiarot	roughing	2	Alexandre Texier
2nd	04:13	MTL	Alexandre Carrier	holding	2	Andrew Copp
2nd	07:54	MTL	Lane Hutson	interference	2	Alex DeBrincat
2nd	17:32	DET	Moritz Seider	holding the stick	2	Jake Evans
3rd	03:44	DET	Moritz Seider	roughing	2	Jayden Struble
3rd	03:44	MTL	Jayden Struble	roughing	2	Moritz Seider

Boxscore

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	1	0	1	-2	5	2	1	0	0.0	19:52
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	1	1	-2	0	1	0	0	60.0	21:24
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	1	1	-2	3	3	0	0	0.0	18:48
Alex Newhook #15	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	40.0	09:34
Jake Evans #71	C	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	54.5	17:52
Joe Veleno #90	C	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	0	50.0	11:14
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	09:33
Phillip Danault #24	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	63.6	14:03
Alexandre Texier #85	L	0	0	0	0	2	3	1	0	0.0	13:46
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	0.0	11:25
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:59
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	0	0.0	15:44
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0.0	20:15
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.0	12:52
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	0	0	-1	1	4	0	2	0.0	16:33
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	0	0	-1	3	0	1	2	0.0	23:59
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	0	0	-1	3	0	2	0	0.0	21:41
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	0	0	-2	3	2	4	0	0.0	23:01

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	L	27	25	2	.926	22/24	3/3	58:25

Detroit Red Wings

Red Wings skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Alex DeBrincat #93	R	1	2	3	+3	4	3	1	0	0.0	19:11
Andrew Copp #18	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	0	41.2	18:19
J.T. Compher #37	L	1	0	1	+3	1	0	1	0	42.1	22:08
Patrick Kane #88	R	0	1	1	+2	3	2	0	0	0.0	17:27
Emmitt Finnie #58	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	61.5	16:51
Marco Kasper #92	C	0	0	0	0	3	8	1	0	100.0	16:58
Mason Appleton #22	C	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	0.0	14:30
Sheldon Dries #15	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33.3	03:53
David Perron #57	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	15:11
James van Riemsdyk #21	L	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0.0	08:46
Lucas Raymond #23	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	18:45
Dominik Shine #65	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	05:14
Albert Johansson #20	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	13:29
Ben Chiarot #8	D	0	0	0	0	1	6	2	2	0.0	19:36
Jacob Bernard-Docker #25	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:43
Justin Faulk #72	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0.0	20:26
Moritz Seider #53	D	0	0	0	+3	4	1	1	4	0.0	24:39
Simon Edvinsson #77	D	0	0	0	+3	0	4	1	0	0.0	26:41

Red Wings goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
John Gibson #36	W	33	32	1	.970	28/28	1/2	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.