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Montréal Canadiens at Tampa Bay Lightning

Dec 28, 2025 · Benchmark International Arena

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 4 35
Tampa Bay Lightning 5 21

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
02:28 TBL Nikita Kucherov (16) Gage Goncalves (7) 0 - 1
12:11 TBL Nikita Kucherov (17) Brayden Point (15), Gage Goncalves (8) 0 - 2
14:49 TBL Nick Paul (4) Oliver Bjorkstrand (11), Maxim Groshev (1) 0 - 3
3rd Period
01:06 MTL Ivan Demidov (10) Juraj Slafkovský (15), Noah Dobson (18) 1 - 3
01:40 TBL Pontus Holmberg (6) Oliver Bjorkstrand (12), Charle-Edouard D'Astous (9) 1 - 4
09:16 MTL Juraj Slafkovský (12) Oliver Kapanen (9) 2 - 4
12:17 MTL Noah Dobson (7) Cole Caufield (19), Mike Matheson (14) 3 - 4
19:56 MTL Juraj Slafkovský (13) Ivan Demidov (22), Lane Hutson (31) 4 - 4
Shootout
TBL Gage Goncalves Shootout winner 4 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:50 TBL Max Crozier Holding 2
12:15 TBL Nick Paul Delaying game puck over glass 2
16:46 MTL Arber Xhekaj Fighting 5
16:46 TBL Scott Sabourin Fighting 5
18:07 TBL Charle-Edouard D'Astous Holding 2
2nd Period
03:54 MTL Alexandre Texier Hooking 2
12:19 TBL Nikita Kucherov Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 84 60 35 4 5.0 61.5
Tampa Bay Lightning 49 34 21 4 4.2 38.5

How the game went

3020100Start2nd3rdOTTampa Bay Lightning aheadMontréal Canadiens ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Tampa Bay Lightning had taken more, and below it and blue while Montréal Canadiens had.

Expected goals

Montréal Canadiens: 5.0 expected, 4 scored · Tampa Bay Lightning: 4.2 expected, 4 scored

01234Start2nd3rdOTMTL goal, 1:06 of 3rd, a 20% chanceMTL goal, 9:16 of 3rd, a 10% chanceMTL goal, 12:17 of 3rd, a 2% chanceMTL goal, 19:56 of 3rd, a 10% chanceTBL goal, 2:28 of 2nd, a 21% chanceTBL goal, 12:11 of 2nd, a 26% chanceTBL goal, 14:49 of 2nd, a 5% chanceTBL goal, 1:40 of 3rd, a 6% chanceMTL 5.0TBL 4.2

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted.

Where the attempts came from

Montréal Canadiens
Tampa Bay Lightning

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Oliver Kapanen · Juraj Slafkovský · Ivan Demidov10:3978.680.52-1
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Zachary Bolduc7:139.10.00-0
Brendan Gallagher · Sammy Blais · Joseph Veleno6:5162.580.20-0
Nick Suzuki · Alexandre Texier · Cole Caufield5:1341.713.01-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · Noah Dobson18:2769.083.32-1
Alexandre Carrier · Lane Hutson13:0766.772.71-1
Jayden Struble · Arber Xhekaj5:3736.43.60-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 2 1 3 1 0 5 0 20:27 1.00 24-9 1.84-0.95
53 Noah Dobson D 1 1 2 0 0 5 2 27:29 0.17 31-17 2.28-1.23
93 Ivan Demidov R 1 1 2 2 0 3 1 18:26 0.75 24-6 1.82-0.42
8 Mike Matheson D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 26:37 0.14 35-16 2.41-0.64
13 Cole Caufield R 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 22:42 0.47 11-18 0.54-1.10
48 Lane Hutson D 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 28:13 0.06 23-13 1.00-0.56
91 Oliver Kapanen C 0 1 1 1 0 5 0 16:20 0.78 22-7 1.74-0.65
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 13:42 0.56 18-8 0.96-0.41
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 22:43 0.02 12-18 0.56-1.10
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 4 16:17 0.47 18-9 0.67-0.74
24 Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 16:52 0.12 20-9 0.79-0.74
27 Sammy Blais L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:22 0.01 11-6 0.49-0.08
45 Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 18:56 0.25 26-13 1.03-0.52
47 Jayden Struble D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:51 7-10 0.10-0.81
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 -1 5 0 3 07:15 0.03 6-10 0.04-1.14
76 Zachary Bolduc R 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 16:48 0.08 12-13 0.15-0.97
85 Alexandre Texier L 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 14:34 0.01 9-10 0.39-0.58
90 Joseph Veleno C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 09:43 0.07 11-8 0.34-0.19
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Jacob Fowler OTL 21 17 4 63:43 3.14 -0.86

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Yanni Gourde · Zemgus Girgensons · Pontus Holmberg10:3661.188.50-1
Nikita Kucherov · Brayden Point · Gage Goncalves7:0326.338.32-0
Jake Guentzel · Anthony Cirelli · Brandon Hagel6:3141.254.00-1
Oliver Bjorkstrand · Nick Paul · Gage Goncalves4:5053.887.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Max Crozier · Declan Carlile14:2433.342.20-2
Darren Raddysh · J.J. Moser13:5755.056.51-1
Charle-Edouard D'Astous · Maxim Groshev10:0138.118.31-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
86 Nikita Kucherov R 2 0 2 1 2 3 1 19:48 0.69 12-26 1.21-1.84
28 Oliver Bjorkstrand R 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 13:27 0.06 12-13 0.38-0.77
93 Gage Goncalves C 0 2 2 2 0 3 0 13:51 0.51 13-21 0.93-1.18
20 Nick Paul L 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 16:05 0.16 11-16 0.31-0.92
29 Pontus Holmberg R 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 12:25 0.32 12-8 0.61-0.11
21 Brayden Point C 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 16:38 0.06 6-29 0.79-2.45
51 Charle-Edouard D'Astous D 0 1 1 2 2 2 1 17:38 0.08 12-22 0.72-1.17
52 Maxim Groshev D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 13:03 0.02 12-19 0.49-1.51
24 Max Crozier D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 23:41 0.01 15-37 1.19-1.96
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 14:52 0.15 11-9 0.55-0.11
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 15:46 0.20 13-9 0.71-0.10
38 Brandon Hagel L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 21:25 0.45 10-22 0.76-0.98
43 Darren Raddysh D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 24:44 16-10 1.16-0.34
46 Scott Sabourin R 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 02:20 0-1 0.00-0.04
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 18:42 0.13 10-20 0.69-1.21
71 Anthony Cirelli C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 18:06 0.41 10-17 0.76-0.59
72 Declan Carlile D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 20:01 0.01 12-27 0.84-1.33
90 J.J. Moser D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 24:28 0.01 13-14 0.73-0.55
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jonas Johansson W 35 31 4 65:00 4.80 +0.80