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New Jersey Devils at Montréal Canadiens

Apr 5, 2026 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
New Jersey Devils 3 20
Montréal Canadiens 0 18

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
10:47 NJD Timo Meier (24) Jack Hughes (46) 1 - 0
2nd Period
18:12 NJD Cody Glass (17) Unassisted 2 - 0
3rd Period
16:35 NJD Connor Brown (17) Jack Hughes (47), Jesper Bratt (48) 3 - 0

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
08:37 MTL Kaiden Guhle Tripping 2
2nd Period
06:18 NJD Brian Halonen Holding 2
08:27 MTL Lane Hutson High sticking 2
3rd Period
00:50 NJD Luke Hughes Cross checking 2
00:50 NJD Luke Hughes Roughing 2
00:50 MTL Josh Anderson Roughing 2
00:50 NJD Johnathan Kovacevic Misconduct 10
06:11 NJD Dougie Hamilton Tripping 2
13:00 NJD Brenden Dillon Instigator 2
13:00 NJD Brenden Dillon Fighting 5
13:00 MTL Josh Anderson Fighting 5
13:00 NJD Brenden Dillon Instigator misconduct 10
19:06 NJD Connor Brown Misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
New Jersey Devils 47 35 20 3 2.8 45.8
Montréal Canadiens 58 38 18 0 2.7 54.2

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdMontréal Canadiens aheadNew Jersey Devils 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 New Jersey Devils had.

Expected goals

New Jersey Devils: 2.8 expected, 3 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 2.7 expected, 0 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndNJD goal, 10:47 of 1st, a 16% chanceNJD goal, 18:12 of 2nd, a 15% chanceNJD goal, 16:35 of 3rd, a 5% chanceNJD 2.8MTL 2.7

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

New Jersey Devils
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.

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Timo Meier · Nico Hischier · Dawson Mercer12:0733.321.50-0
Connor Brown · Jesper Bratt · Jack Hughes11:0258.370.70-0
Nick Bjugstad · Cody Glass · Lenni Hameenaho7:1836.444.01-0
Paul Cotter · Marc McLaughlin · Brian Halonen4:3616.70.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Johnathan Kovacevic · Luke Hughes13:5041.742.30-0
Dougie Hamilton · Jonas Siegenthaler12:2250.066.41-0
Brenden Dillon · Simon Nemec9:3453.358.51-0

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
86 Jack Hughes C 0 2 2 2 0 6 1 21:41 0.86 23-13 1.39-0.40
12 Cody Glass C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 12:05 0.16 4-8 0.24-0.36
16 Connor Brown R 1 0 1 1 10 2 3 20:57 0.32 15-12 0.99-0.46
28 Timo Meier R 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 18:22 0.23 13-17 0.60-0.73
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 17:16 0.09 16-13 0.96-0.43
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 1 17 0 2 14:07 8-10 0.28-0.29
7 Dougie Hamilton D 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 20:51 11-13 0.78-0.43
8 Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 0 0 1 10 1 3 17:29 0.02 14-15 0.56-0.65
13 Nico Hischier C 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 23:44 0.42 11-16 0.54-0.71
21 Marc McLaughlin C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:03 2-9 0.03-0.04
29 Lenni Hameenaho R 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 10:59 0.08 6-10 0.31-0.33
43 Luke Hughes D 0 0 0 1 4 0 1 23:08 13-19 0.67-0.74
47 Paul Cotter L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:14 5-6 0.13-0.01
48 Brian Halonen L 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 05:19 0.00 2-5 0.00-0.01
71 Jonas Siegenthaler D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 23:41 17-16 1.11-0.43
71 Simon Nemec D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 17:30 0.14 13-17 0.47-0.48
72 Nick Bjugstad C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 09:00 0.08 5-9 0.29-0.33
91 Dawson Mercer C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 21:34 0.42 12-16 0.32-0.65
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
25 Jacob Markstrom W, SO 18 18 0 60:00 2.62 +2.62

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Juraj Slafkovský11:2050.036.00-0
Alex Newhook · Oliver Kapanen · Ivan Demidov7:3176.574.40-1
Brendan Gallagher · Phillip Danault · Joseph Veleno7:2857.172.70-0
Josh Anderson · Jake Evans · Zachary Bolduc7:1261.555.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · Noah Dobson10:0155.051.70-1
Jayden Struble · Lane Hutson9:2461.959.30-0
Kaiden Guhle · Arber Xhekaj7:1977.885.30-0

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
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:22 6-4 0.24-0.07
8 Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 20:57 0.19 20-18 0.72-1.21
13 Cole Caufield R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 20:57 0.68 14-18 0.39-1.14
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 21:42 0.15 14-14 0.39-0.69
15 Alex Newhook C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 13:13 0.10 16-7 0.75-0.31
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 0 7 0 2 11:31 0.18 10-5 0.20-0.12
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 22:27 0.04 14-18 0.39-1.14
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 17:05 0.01 17-8 0.47-0.35
24 Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:12 0.08 7-4 0.23-0.07
47 Jayden Struble D 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 14:23 0.05 15-11 0.43-0.35
48 Lane Hutson D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 24:41 15-15 0.50-0.76
53 Noah Dobson D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 23:39 0.06 15-17 0.61-1.04
71 Jake Evans C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 13:59 11-8 0.20-0.38
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 11:58 0.03 8-9 0.29-0.42
76 Zachary Bolduc R 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 13:54 0.09 11-9 0.20-0.22
90 Joseph Veleno C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 6 12:37 0.31 5-7 0.18-0.33
91 Oliver Kapanen C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:22 0.58 14-11 0.69-0.63
93 Ivan Demidov R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 16:32 0.18 13-7 0.69-0.44
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Jacob Fowler L 19 17 2 57:29 2.66 +0.66