Game

Canadiens at Devils

Canadiens 4, Devils 3 in a shootout · first star Jack Hughes (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.

Montreal Canadiens 4 at New Jersey Devils 3

Canadiens MTL

4 FINAL/SO 3

Devils NJD

Saturday, April 4, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Prudential Center, Newark · TV SNE · NHLN · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Canadiens	1	2	0	0	1	4	29
Devils	0	2	1	0	0	3	38

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Canadiens attack left, Devils 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: MTL 29, NJD 38.

MTL in red NJD in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Canadiens 29 shots on goal (3 goals, 20 missed, 13 blocked) attacking left; Devils 38 shots on goal (3 goals, 11 missed, 9 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT	NJD SOG	NJD G	NJD ATT
1st	9	1	23	15	0	22
2nd	8	2	16	10	2	14
3rd	10	0	18	12	1	17
OT	2	0	5	1	0	5
Total	29	3	62	38	3	58

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MTL SOG	MTL G	NJD SOG	NJD G
Even strength	25	2	32	2
Power play	4	1	2	0
Short-handed	0	0	4	1

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 51.7% of the shot attempts, and 52.7% of the 93 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 Devils 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 Devils
Period	NJD CF%	NJD FF%
1st	48.9	54.3
2nd	46.7	45.8
3rd	48.6	48.4
OT	50.0	50.0
Game	48.3	50.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

15:58 Jayden Struble (2) Cole Caufield (35), Arber Xhekaj (2) · wrist 1–0

2nd period

08:12 Ivan Demidov (17) PP Cole Caufield (36), Nick Suzuki (68) · snap 2–0
09:28 Lane Hutson (12) Unassisted · wrist 3–0
13:08 Dawson Mercer (18) Timo Meier (18), Nico Hischier (36) · wrist 3–1
17:40 Jack Hughes (25) SH Jesper Bratt (47), Jonas Siegenthaler (13) · wrist 3–2

3rd period

17:45 Timo Meier (23) Jack Hughes (45), Dougie Hamilton (23) · snap 3–3

Shootout

00:00 Oliver Kapanen Unassisted · wrist 4–3

Three stars

Jack Hughes NJD · C #86 · 1 G, 1 A
Cole Caufield MTL · R #13 · 0 G, 2 A
Timo Meier NJD · R #28 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	13:03	MTL	Ivan Demidov	interference	2	Paul Cotter
1st	19:52	NJD	Nick Bjugstad	slashing	2	Ivan Demidov
2nd	07:40	NJD	Jonas Siegenthaler	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
2nd	15:38	NJD	Brenden Dillon	high sticking double minor	4	Zachary Bolduc
3rd	18:06	NJD	Jack Hughes	delaying game puck over glass	2	—

Boxscore

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	2	2	0	5	0	0	0	0.0	22:15
Ivan Demidov #93	R	1	0	1	-1	4	0	0	2	0.0	20:40
Jayden Struble #47	D	1	0	1	+2	1	3	1	0	0.0	15:28
Lane Hutson #48	D	1	0	1	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	29:47
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	28.6	23:55
Arber Xhekaj #72	D	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	10:00
Alex Newhook #15	C	0	0	0	-1	4	1	1	0	66.7	15:15
Jake Evans #71	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	50.0	14:43
Joe Veleno #90	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	10:06
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	0	0	-2	3	0	0	0	22.2	14:33
Phillip Danault #24	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	71.4	12:11
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	22:46
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0.0	09:48
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	14:30
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	15:06
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	0.0	16:53
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	24:01
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	1	0	0.0	22:08

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	38	35	3	.921	30/32	2/2	65:00

New Jersey Devils

Devils skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jack Hughes #86	C	1	1	2	+1	5	0	3	2	41.7	26:26
Timo Meier #28	R	1	1	2	+2	7	5	0	0	0.0	20:06
Dawson Mercer #91	C	1	0	1	+1	3	0	1	0	0.0	21:47
Nico Hischier #13	C	0	1	1	+2	3	1	1	0	71.0	23:47
Jesper Bratt #63	L	0	1	1	+1	4	2	0	0	0.0	20:24
Dougie Hamilton #7	D	0	1	1	+1	3	3	2	0	0.0	22:54
Jonas Siegenthaler #71	D	0	1	1	-1	0	0	1	2	0.0	18:55
Cody Glass #12	C	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	54.5	12:43
Marc McLaughlin #21	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33.3	04:34
Nick Bjugstad #72	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	2	0.0	09:16
Brian Halonen #48	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	05:56
Paul Cotter #47	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	06:27
Connor Brown #16	R	0	0	0	+1	4	2	0	0	0.0	22:17
Lenni Hameenaho #29	R	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	09:39
Brenden Dillon #5	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	4	0.0	15:15
Johnathan Kovacevic #8	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	1	0	0.0	21:08
Luke Hughes #43	D	0	0	0	+1	4	0	0	0	0.0	27:43
Simon Nemec #17	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	18:23

Devils goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jake Allen #34	O	29	26	3	.897	23/25	3/4	64:53

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.