Hockey Terminal
Be a GM

← All games

Montréal Canadiens at New Jersey Devils

Apr 4, 2026 · Prudential Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 4 29
New Jersey Devils 3 38

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
15:58 MTL Jayden Struble (2) Cole Caufield (35), Arber Xhekaj (2) 1 - 0
2nd Period
08:12 MTL Ivan Demidov (17) PP Cole Caufield (36), Nick Suzuki (68) 2 - 0
09:28 MTL Lane Hutson (12) Unassisted 3 - 0
13:08 NJD Dawson Mercer (18) Timo Meier (18), Nico Hischier (36) 3 - 1
17:40 NJD Jack Hughes (25) SH Jesper Bratt (47), Jonas Siegenthaler (13) 3 - 2
3rd Period
17:45 NJD Timo Meier (23) Jack Hughes (45), Dougie Hamilton (23) 3 - 3
Shootout
MTL Oliver Kapanen Shootout winner 4 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
13:03 MTL Ivan Demidov Interference 2
19:52 NJD Nick Bjugstad Slashing 2
2nd Period
07:40 NJD Jonas Siegenthaler Delaying game puck over glass 2
15:38 NJD Brenden Dillon High sticking double minor 4
3rd Period
18:06 NJD Jack Hughes Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 65 49 29 3 4.1 55.9
New Jersey Devils 55 49 38 3 4.0 44.1

How the game went

1050Start2nd3rdOTNew Jersey Devils 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 New Jersey Devils had taken more, and below it and blue while Montréal Canadiens had.

Expected goals

Montréal Canadiens: 4.1 expected, 3 scored · New Jersey Devils: 4.0 expected, 3 scored

01234Start2nd3rdOTMTL goal, 15:58 of 1st, a 4% chanceMTL goal, 8:12 of 2nd, a 17% chanceMTL goal, 9:28 of 2nd, a 17% chanceNJD goal, 13:08 of 2nd, a 5% chanceNJD goal, 17:40 of 2nd, a 22% chanceNJD goal, 17:45 of 3rd, a 5% chanceMTL 4.1NJD 4.0

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
New Jersey Devils

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
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Juraj Slafkovský12:4345.242.71-0
Josh Anderson · Jake Evans · Zachary Bolduc10:4640.056.01-0
Alex Newhook · Oliver Kapanen · Ivan Demidov10:1160.053.20-1
Brendan Gallagher · Phillip Danault · Joseph Veleno7:3675.067.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · Noah Dobson11:4844.446.50-0
Jayden Struble · Lane Hutson10:3266.794.31-0
Kaiden Guhle · Lane Hutson4:5546.228.00-0

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
13 Cole Caufield R 0 2 2 0 0 5 0 22:15 0.80 15-17 0.88-1.00
47 Jayden Struble D 1 0 1 2 0 1 3 15:28 0.04 18-7 1.37-0.08
48 Lane Hutson D 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 29:47 0.21 20-13 1.22-0.83
93 Ivan Demidov R 1 0 1 -1 2 4 0 20:40 0.62 12-9 0.55-0.49
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 23:55 0.17 16-18 0.83-1.01
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 10:00 13-5 0.74-0.46
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 09:48 0.47 11-3 0.62-0.19
8 Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 24:01 18-18 1.12-0.83
15 Alex Newhook C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 15:15 0.32 19-10 1.10-0.62
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:30 0.08 8-10 0.48-0.52
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 22:46 0.42 15-17 0.88-1.00
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 16:53 0.01 15-16 0.65-1.31
24 Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:11 0.25 13-7 0.72-0.49
53 Noah Dobson D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 22:08 21-23 0.87-1.15
71 Jake Evans C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:43 0.17 8-10 0.53-0.52
76 Zachary Bolduc R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:06 0.11 11-9 0.77-0.35
90 Joseph Veleno C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10:06 11-5 0.49-0.32
91 Oliver Kapanen C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 14:33 0.40 16-8 0.79-0.49
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
75 Jakub Dobes W 38 35 3 65:00 3.82 +0.82

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Timo Meier · Nico Hischier · Dawson Mercer14:0360.768.21-0
Connor Brown · Jesper Bratt · Jack Hughes13:1158.348.40-0
Nick Bjugstad · Cody Glass · Lenni Hameenaho7:1421.414.10-1
Paul Cotter · Marc McLaughlin · Brian Halonen3:300.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Johnathan Kovacevic · Luke Hughes14:5654.360.81-0
Dougie Hamilton · Jonas Siegenthaler12:2038.122.50-1
Brenden Dillon · Simon Nemec11:0728.635.10-0

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
28 Timo Meier R 1 1 2 2 0 7 5 20:06 0.68 20-11 0.97-0.37
86 Jack Hughes C 1 1 2 1 2 5 0 26:26 0.76 16-18 1.13-1.27
91 Dawson Mercer C 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 21:47 0.23 18-16 0.79-0.68
7 Dougie Hamilton D 0 1 1 1 0 3 3 22:54 0.05 12-16 0.47-0.70
13 Nico Hischier C 0 1 1 2 0 3 1 23:47 0.21 19-12 0.91-0.38
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 1 1 1 0 4 2 20:24 0.51 15-12 0.96-1.01
71 Jonas Siegenthaler D 0 1 1 -1 2 0 0 18:55 9-19 0.23-1.00
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 -1 4 0 0 15:15 4-14 0.38-1.10
8 Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 21:08 20-16 1.23-0.68
12 Cody Glass C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 12:43 0.01 4-15 0.27-1.16
16 Connor Brown R 0 0 0 1 0 4 2 22:17 0.73 15-11 0.96-0.85
21 Marc McLaughlin C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 04:34 1-9 0.02-0.28
29 Lenni Hameenaho R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 09:39 0.08 5-15 0.23-1.00
43 Luke Hughes D 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 27:43 0.19 27-23 1.62-1.22
47 Paul Cotter L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:27 3-11 0.34-0.33
48 Brian Halonen L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 05:56 0.13 3-11 0.19-0.33
71 Simon Nemec D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:23 0.26 10-16 0.73-1.15
72 Nick Bjugstad C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 09:16 0.14 4-15 0.22-1.12
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Jake Allen OTL 29 26 3 64:53 3.93 +0.93