Game

Hurricanes at Canadiens

Hurricanes 4, Canadiens 0 · first star Jordan Staal (1 G, 0 A).

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

Carolina Hurricanes 4 at Montreal Canadiens 0

Hurricanes CAR

4 FINAL 0

Canadiens MTL

Playoffs Wednesday, May 27, 2026 · 8:00 PM ET · Centre Bell, Montreal · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Hurricanes	3	0	1	4	44
Canadiens	0	0	0	0	18

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Hurricanes attack left, Canadiens attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 4 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: CAR 44, MTL 18.

CAR in red MTL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Hurricanes 44 shots on goal (4 goals, 27 missed, 24 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 18 shots on goal (0 goals, 6 missed, 21 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CAR SOG	CAR G	CAR ATT	MTL SOG	MTL ATT
1st	12	3	27	5	17
2nd	12	0	30	10	18
3rd	20	1	38	3	10
Total	44	4	95	18	45

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CAR SOG	CAR G	MTL SOG
Even strength	37	3	16
Power play	6	1	1
Short-handed	1	0	1
Into an empty net	1	1	0

Attempt share by period

Hurricanes took 67.9% of the shot attempts, and 67.5% of the 120 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 Hurricanes hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Hurricanes at Canadiens
Period	MTL CF%	MTL FF%
1st	38.6	29.6
2nd	37.5	34.3
3rd	20.8	12.1
Game	32.1	25.3

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

Scoring summary

1st period

14:59 Sebastian Aho (4) PP Nikolaj Ehlers (3), Shayne Gostisbehere (3) · snap 1–0
16:07 Jordan Staal (2) K'Andre Miller (8), Nikolaj Ehlers (4) · tip-in 2–0
17:46 Logan Stankoven (8) Jackson Blake (9), Shayne Gostisbehere (4) · snap 3–0

3rd period

18:06 Andrei Svechnikov (3) EN Jalen Chatfield (4) · snap 4–0

Three stars

Jordan Staal CAR · C #11 · 1 G, 0 A
Nikolaj Ehlers CAR · L #27 · 0 G, 2 A
K'Andre Miller CAR · D #19 · 0 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	05:54	MTL	Kirby Dach	cross checking	2	Alexander Nikishin
1st	10:06	CAR	Jalen Chatfield	interference	2	Cole Caufield
1st	12:48	CAR	Taylor Hall	cross checking	2	Alexandre Carrier
1st	14:18	MTL	Zachary Bolduc	hooking	2	Jaccob Slavin
2nd	12:24	MTL	Mike Matheson	cross checking	2	Nikolaj Ehlers
2nd	12:40	MTL	Phillip Danault	cross checking	2	Jordan Staal
2nd	18:08	MTL	Josh Anderson	roughing	2	Nikolaj Ehlers
3rd	14:34	MTL	Josh Anderson	interference	2	William Carrier
3rd	19:43	MTL	Kaiden Guhle	misconduct (misconduct)	10	—
3rd	19:43	CAR	Mark Jankowski	misconduct (misconduct)	10	—
3rd	19:43	MTL	Jayden Struble	misconduct (misconduct)	10	—
3rd	19:43	CAR	Eric Robinson	misconduct (misconduct)	10	—

Boxscore

Carolina Hurricanes

Hurricanes skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nikolaj Ehlers #27	L	0	2	2	+1	1	1	2	0	0.0	17:05
Shayne Gostisbehere #4	D	0	2	2	0	1	1	3	0	0.0	16:08
Jordan Staal #11	C	1	0	1	+1	1	5	0	0	54.5	16:21
Logan Stankoven #22	C	1	0	1	+1	7	1	0	0	50.0	14:16
Sebastian Aho #20	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	58.3	20:20
Andrei Svechnikov #37	R	1	0	1	+1	6	4	0	0	0.0	17:18
Jackson Blake #53	R	0	1	1	+1	4	1	1	0	0.0	16:46
Jalen Chatfield #5	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	2	2	0.0	18:44
K'Andre Miller #19	D	0	1	1	+2	2	1	4	0	0.0	24:41
Eric Robinson #50	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	10	0.0	10:43
Jordan Martinook #48	L	0	0	0	+1	1	1	2	0	0.0	15:21
Mark Jankowski #77	L	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	10	33.3	10:41
Taylor Hall #71	L	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	2	0.0	15:33
William Carrier #28	L	0	0	0	+1	5	3	0	0	0.0	11:27
Seth Jarvis #24	R	0	0	0	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	17:34
Alexander Nikishin #21	D	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0.0	12:41
Jaccob Slavin #74	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	19:41
Sean Walker #26	D	0	0	0	+3	2	4	0	0	0.0	20:40

Hurricanes goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Frederik Andersen #31	W	18	18	0	1.000	16/16	1/1	60:00

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Alex Newhook #15	C	-1	1	1	0	0	50.0	18:17
Jake Evans #71	C	-1	1	2	0	0	52.4	18:29
Joe Veleno #90	C	0	0	3	0	0	75.0	06:05
Kirby Dach #77	C	0	0	2	1	2	0.0	08:45
Nick Suzuki #14	C	-1	3	2	0	0	41.2	22:59
Phillip Danault #24	C	-1	1	1	1	2	63.2	14:16
Alexandre Texier #85	L	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	06:30
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	0	0	2	3	0	0.0	17:18
Cole Caufield #13	R	-1	2	3	0	0	0.0	19:14
Ivan Demidov #93	R	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	18:52
Josh Anderson #17	R	-1	2	0	3	4	100.0	11:09
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	-1	2	1	1	2	0.0	11:27
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	7	0	0.0	23:22
Jayden Struble #47	D	-2	0	3	2	10	0.0	11:54
Kaiden Guhle #21	D	0	0	3	3	10	0.0	17:27
Lane Hutson #48	D	-3	1	1	0	0	0.0	21:04
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	2	1	0	2	0.0	23:05
Noah Dobson #53	D	-1	2	4	2	0	0.0	20:05

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	L	43	40	3	.930	34/36	5/6	59:01

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.