Game

Blue Jackets at Canadiens

Canadiens 2, Blue Jackets 1 · first star Zachary Bolduc (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.

Columbus Blue Jackets 1 at Montreal Canadiens 2

Blue Jackets CBJ

1 FINAL 2

Canadiens MTL

Thursday, March 26, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Centre Bell, Montreal

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Blue Jackets	1	0	0	1	26
Canadiens	1	0	1	2	20

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blue Jackets attack left, Canadiens attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: CBJ 26, MTL 20.

CBJ in red MTL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Blue Jackets 26 shots on goal (1 goal, 18 missed, 18 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 20 shots on goal (2 goals, 11 missed, 10 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	CBJ ATT	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT
1st	13	1	29	6	1	11
2nd	6	0	19	8	0	17
3rd	7	0	14	6	1	13
Total	26	1	62	20	2	41

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	MTL SOG	MTL G
Even strength	25	1	16	2
Power play	1	0	4	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Blue Jackets took 60.2% of the shot attempts, and 62.5% of the 88 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 Blue Jackets hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blue Jackets at Canadiens
Period	MTL CF%	MTL FF%
1st	27.5	33.3
2nd	47.2	50.0
3rd	48.1	40.9
Game	39.8	41.3

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

Scoring summary

1st period

09:54 Jayden Struble (1) Zachary Bolduc (17), Lane Hutson (59) · snap 0–1
12:17 Damon Severson (8) Boone Jenner (23), Isac Lundeström (7) · slap 1–1

3rd period

04:36 Zachary Bolduc (11) Jake Evans (11), Mike Matheson (28) · snap 1–2

Three stars

Zachary Bolduc MTL · R #76 · 1 G, 1 A
Jakub Dobes MTL · G #75 · 0 GA, .962 SV%
Jayden Struble MTL · D #47 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	04:18	MTL	Juraj Slafkovský	holding	2	Kirill Marchenko
2nd	07:41	MTL	Jake Evans	roughing	2	Miles Wood
2nd	07:41	CBJ	Miles Wood	roughing	2	Lane Hutson
2nd	14:36	CBJ	Zach Werenski	interference	2	Josh Anderson
3rd	14:44	CBJ	Boone Jenner	interference goalkeeper	2	Jakub Dobes

Boxscore

Columbus Blue Jackets

Blue Jackets skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Damon Severson #78	D	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	21:23
Boone Jenner #38	C	0	1	1	+1	1	3	0	2	66.7	13:53
Isac Lundeström #21	C	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	12:12
Adam Fantilli #19	C	0	0	0	0	4	8	0	0	37.5	18:35
Charlie Coyle #3	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	53.3	15:20
Cole Sillinger #4	C	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	11:49
Sean Monahan #23	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	42.9	18:45
Danton Heinen #43	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	12:33
Mason Marchment #17	L	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0.0	18:36
Miles Wood #11	L	0	0	0	+1	1	3	1	2	0.0	08:47
Conor Garland #83	R	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	14:43
Kirill Marchenko #86	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	18:47
Mathieu Olivier #24	R	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	12:47
Dante Fabbro #15	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	1	0	0.0	15:04
Denton Mateychuk #5	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	12:37
Erik Gudbranson #44	D	0	0	0	+1	3	3	0	0	0.0	20:36
Ivan Provorov #9	D	0	0	0	-2	2	0	3	0	0.0	21:34
Zach Werenski #8	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0.0	27:21

Blue Jackets goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jet Greaves #73	L	20	18	2	.900	14/16	4/4	58:38

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	1	1	2	+2	2	3	1	0	0.0	13:51
Jayden Struble #47	D	1	0	1	+1	2	2	0	0	0.0	12:05
Jake Evans #71	C	0	1	1	+2	0	2	1	2	46.2	18:56
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	1	1	0	3	0	3	0	0.0	19:45
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	1	1	+1	3	0	4	0	0.0	21:24
Alex Newhook #15	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	50.0	16:32
Joe Veleno #90	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	0.0	07:00
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	64.3	19:38
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	25.0	15:22
Phillip Danault #24	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	50.0	09:40
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0.0	19:24
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	08:15
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	17:48
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	17:15
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	+2	1	3	0	0	0.0	16:12
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	17:18
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0.0	20:50
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	0.0	24:45

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	26	25	1	.962	24/25	1/1	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.