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Vancouver Canucks at Montréal Canadiens

Jan 12, 2026 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Vancouver Canucks 3 23
Montréal Canadiens 6 41

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
11:53 VAN Elias Pettersson (12) Linus Karlsson (10), Filip Hronek (24) 1 - 0
18:13 MTL Noah Dobson (9) PP Nick Suzuki (35) 1 - 1
2nd Period
01:50 VAN Evander Kane (7) Aatu Räty (9) 2 - 1
04:31 MTL Alexandre Carrier (2) Nick Suzuki (36), Alexandre Texier (9) 2 - 2
04:51 MTL Alexandre Carrier (3) Juraj Slafkovský (20), Ivan Demidov (27) 2 - 3
09:42 VAN Max Sasson (9) Drew O'Connor (7), Pierre-Olivier Joseph (2) 3 - 3
3rd Period
00:29 MTL Mike Matheson (5) Cole Caufield (22), Alexandre Texier (10) 3 - 4
01:07 MTL Juraj Slafkovský (17) Ivan Demidov (28), Lane Hutson (37) 3 - 5
06:05 MTL Oliver Kapanen (16) Ivan Demidov (29), Juraj Slafkovský (21) 3 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
18:09 VAN Brock Boeser Hooking 2
3rd Period
10:19 MTL Alexandre Carrier Cross checking 2
17:48 MTL Noah Dobson Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vancouver Canucks 63 34 23 3 3.2 44.0
Montréal Canadiens 66 57 41 6 4.9 56.0

How the game went

5051015Start2nd3rdMontréal Canadiens aheadVancouver Canucks 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 Montréal Canadiens had taken more, and below it and blue while Vancouver Canucks had.

Expected goals

Vancouver Canucks: 3.2 expected, 3 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 4.9 expected, 6 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndVAN goal, 11:53 of 1st, a 18% chanceVAN goal, 1:50 of 2nd, a 26% chanceVAN goal, 9:42 of 2nd, a 22% chanceMTL goal, 18:13 of 1st, a 8% chanceMTL goal, 4:31 of 2nd, a 10% chanceMTL goal, 4:51 of 2nd, a 29% chanceMTL goal, 0:29 of 3rd, a 5% chanceMTL goal, 1:07 of 3rd, a 6% chanceMTL goal, 6:05 of 3rd, a 9% chanceMTL 4.9VAN 3.2

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

Vancouver Canucks
Montréal Canadiens

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.

Vancouver Canucks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brock Boeser · Conor Garland · David Kampf14:1843.842.90-2
Jake DeBrusk · Elias Pettersson · Linus Karlsson11:2626.730.41-2
Evander Kane · Nils Hoglander · Aatu Räty9:2150.030.81-1
Drew O'Connor · Liam Ohgren · Max Sasson9:1843.814.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marcus Pettersson · Victor Mancini15:0346.456.11-1
Filip Hronek · Tom Willander14:1843.823.61-3
Tyler Myers · Pierre-Olivier Joseph13:4953.335.60-1

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
40 Elias Pettersson C 1 0 1 -1 0 4 0 16:41 0.47 8-23 0.50-1.19
63 Max Sasson C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 14:31 0.22 15-11 0.54-0.92
91 Evander Kane L 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 14:33 0.28 12-14 0.86-1.57
7 Pierre-Olivier Joseph D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 17:15 20-15 0.85-1.14
17 Filip Hronek D 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 21:16 0.09 19-21 0.87-2.01
18 Drew O'Connor L 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 13:40 0.02 11-12 0.37-0.88
54 Aatu Räty C 0 1 1 0 0 1 4 12:25 0.15 12-12 0.64-1.41
94 Linus Karlsson C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 1 15:34 0.07 9-25 0.52-1.28
5 Tom Willander D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 18:32 0.09 14-21 0.57-2.13
6 Brock Boeser R 0 0 0 -2 2 3 0 21:41 0.59 22-18 1.11-1.23
21 Nils Hoglander L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:22 0.21 10-10 0.62-1.39
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 22:45 0.00 15-30 1.19-1.70
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19:47 0.14 19-27 0.68-1.70
64 David Kampf C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 16:45 0.53 15-19 0.92-1.26
74 Jake DeBrusk L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:51 0.21 8-23 0.50-1.18
83 Conor Garland R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 18:33 0.10 19-18 1.11-1.23
90 Victor Mancini D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:08 16-16 1.12-0.90
92 Liam Ohgren L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:37 11-10 0.16-0.81
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
60 Nikita Tolopilo L 41 35 6 60:00 4.70 -1.30

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Suzuki · Alexandre Texier · Cole Caufield14:5676.578.52-0
Oliver Kapanen · Juraj Slafkovský · Ivan Demidov12:0664.368.23-0
Brendan Gallagher · Phillip Danault · Zachary Bolduc11:2055.660.50-2
Sammy Blais · Joseph Veleno · Owen Beck8:3122.241.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · Noah Dobson16:0063.261.72-0
Alexandre Carrier · Lane Hutson12:4157.787.02-0
Kaiden Guhle · Arber Xhekaj9:2227.829.70-2

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
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 1 2 3 2 0 1 1 14:44 0.19 18-17 1.44-1.08
93 Ivan Demidov R 0 3 3 3 0 3 0 14:27 0.27 21-12 2.00-0.67
45 Alexandre Carrier D 2 0 2 3 2 3 0 20:01 0.39 24-14 1.52-0.46
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 17:06 0.01 27-13 1.36-0.52
85 Alexandre Texier L 0 2 2 1 0 2 1 18:21 0.48 26-15 1.32-0.77
8 Mike Matheson D 1 0 1 3 0 2 2 23:04 0.07 31-14 2.53-0.97
53 Noah Dobson D 1 0 1 2 2 4 1 22:18 0.41 31-18 2.18-1.12
91 Oliver Kapanen C 1 0 1 2 0 5 0 16:21 1.10 20-13 1.99-0.94
13 Cole Caufield R 0 1 1 2 0 4 2 16:16 0.38 28-9 1.85-0.36
48 Lane Hutson D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 20:01 0.11 22-17 1.93-0.41
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 13:39 0.51 15-14 1.20-0.87
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 19:56 0.10 15-18 1.03-1.12
24 Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 -2 0 6 0 16:34 0.58 17-16 1.28-0.89
27 Sammy Blais L 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 11:06 2-9 0.21-0.39
62 Owen Beck C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:03 2-10 0.21-0.30
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 6 14:54 0.03 8-22 0.46-1.20
76 Zachary Bolduc R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 4 13:29 0.10 16-15 1.22-0.78
90 Joseph Veleno C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12:40 0.14 2-9 0.21-0.30
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
75 Jakub Dobes W 23 20 3 60:00 3.06 +0.06