Game

Panthers at Canadiens

Canadiens 4, Panthers 3 in a shootout · first star Cole Caufield (0 G, 1 A).

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

Florida Panthers 3 at Montreal Canadiens 4

Panthers FLA

3 FINAL/SO 4

Canadiens MTL

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

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Panthers	1	1	1	0	0	3	33
Canadiens	0	1	2	0	1	4	32

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Panthers 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: FLA 33, MTL 32.

FLA in red MTL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Panthers 33 shots on goal (3 goals, 13 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 32 shots on goal (3 goals, 14 missed, 22 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	FLA SOG	FLA G	FLA ATT	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT
1st	11	1	18	7	0	17
2nd	10	1	24	7	1	15
3rd	7	1	10	15	2	30
OT	5	0	5	3	0	6
Total	33	3	57	32	3	68

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	FLA SOG	FLA G	MTL SOG	MTL G
Even strength	25	3	22	2
Power play	6	0	10	1
Short-handed	2	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Canadiens took 54.4% of the shot attempts, and 54.6% of the 86 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 Panthers hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Panthers at Canadiens
Period	MTL CF%	MTL FF%
1st	48.6	44.4
2nd	38.5	43.3
3rd	75.0	65.4
OT	54.5	44.4
Game	54.4	50.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

09:23 Carter Verhaeghe (25) Donovan Sebrango (5) · snap 1–0

2nd period

00:54 Ivan Demidov (18) PP Cole Caufield (37), Juraj Slafkovský (39) · slap 1–1
13:43 Cole Reinhardt (5) Luke Kunin (4), Seth Jones (25) · wrist 2–1

3rd period

06:22 Phillip Danault (6) Noah Dobson (35), Adam Engstrom (1) · snap 2–2
07:49 Eetu Luostarinen (10) Gustav Forsling (26), Jesper Boqvist (9) · tip-in 3–2
19:39 Nick Suzuki (28) Lane Hutson (63), Juraj Slafkovský (40) · snap 3–3

Shootout

00:00 Cole Caufield Unassisted · snap 3–4

Three stars

Cole Caufield MTL · R #13 · 0 G, 1 A
Ivan Demidov MTL · R #93 · 1 G, 0 A
Lane Hutson MTL · D #48 · 0 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	01:31	MTL	Adam Engstrom	holding	2	A.J. Greer
1st	10:47	FLA	Dmitry Kulikov	high sticking	2	Ivan Demidov
1st	17:58	FLA	Donovan Sebrango	tripping	2	Ivan Demidov
2nd	00:31	FLA	Tobias Bjornfot	slashing	2	Ivan Demidov
2nd	14:25	MTL	Ivan Demidov	interference	2	Seth Jones
3rd	19:48	FLA	Tomas Nosek	high sticking	2	Lane Hutson

Boxscore

Florida Panthers

Panthers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Carter Verhaeghe #23	C	1	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	50.0	21:54
Eetu Luostarinen #27	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	2	0	43.8	20:23
Cole Reinhardt #29	L	1	0	1	0	2	4	0	0	0.0	09:59
Jesper Boqvist #70	C	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	16:29
Luke Kunin #71	C	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	20.0	11:00
Donovan Sebrango #6	D	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	2	0.0	19:24
Gustav Forsling #42	D	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	26:24
Seth Jones #3	D	0	1	1	0	1	1	5	0	0.0	29:27
Sam Bennett #9	C	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	45.5	20:48
Vinnie Hinostroza #24	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	10:40
A.J. Greer #10	L	0	0	0	+1	5	4	0	0	0.0	15:42
Noah Gregor #18	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	11:29
Tomas Nosek #92	L	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	2	55.6	14:44
Cole Schwindt #79	R	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	40.0	13:58
Mackie Samoskevich #11	R	0	0	0	0	6	1	0	0	0.0	20:04
Dmitry Kulikov #7	D	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	2	0.0	15:53
Mike Benning #20	D	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	15:29
Tobias Bjornfot #22	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	2	0.0	16:44

Panthers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Daniil Tarasov #40	O	32	29	3	.906	20/22	9/10	65:00

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	2	2	0	5	2	0	0	50.0	19:36
Nick Suzuki #14	C	1	0	1	+1	3	2	0	0	55.0	19:27
Phillip Danault #24	C	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	0	40.0	14:10
Ivan Demidov #93	R	1	0	1	0	4	0	0	2	0.0	20:19
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	19:09
Adam Engstrom #42	D	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	2	0.0	15:50
Lane Hutson #48	D	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	25:44
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	1	1	+1	3	5	2	0	0.0	25:52
Alex Newhook #15	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	71.4	17:15
Jake Evans #71	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	50.0	15:37
Kirby Dach #77	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	100.0	13:51
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	57.1	11:26
Alexandre Texier #85	L	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0.0	16:18
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	+1	1	1	2	0	0.0	13:19
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	15:06
Arber Xhekaj #72	D	0	0	0	-2	1	2	0	0	0.0	11:36
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	17:02
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	0	0	0	4	0	3	0	0.0	22:49

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	33	30	3	.909	22/25	6/6	63:28

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.