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Montréal Canadiens vs Toronto Maple Leafs

Regular season · Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · Scotiabank Arena

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3–2

Final

SOG 24–28

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Recap

Canadiens edge Maple Leafs 3-2 behind Carrier's winner

The Montréal Canadiens beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Tuesday night at Scotiabank Arena. William Nylander put Toronto ahead at 0:48 of the first period, but the Canadiens answered and never trailed again. Josh Anderson tied it later in the first, Zachary Bolduc put Montréal ahead in the second, and Alexandre Carrier added an unassisted goal at 13:12 of the third that stood as the winner. Nylander scored again late to make it 3-2, but the Canadiens held on.

Anderson and Carrier each finished with a goal and an assist, and Carrier was named the game's first star. Nylander took second-star honors with two goals, and Anderson was the third star. Jakub Dobes made 26 saves on 28 shots for the win, while Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 21 of 24 in the loss. The Maple Leafs outshot the Canadiens 28-24, but both teams came up empty on the power play.

Written with AI from official NHL data and checked against it. The box score and play-by-play are the official record. How we write these

Goals1st2nd3rdTSOG
Montréal CanadiensMTL111324
Toronto Maple LeafsTOR101228

Three stars

  1. ★1st starAlexandre CarrierMTL · 1G 1A
  2. ★2nd starWilliam NylanderTOR · 2G 0A
  3. ★3rd starJosh AndersonMTL · 1G 1A

Scoring

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Tired legs

Seconds into the shift for every skater on the ice at each goal. Taller bar, longer shift.

0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+
1:00

3–2 · 3rd 15:46 · Nylander. MTL stayed on through an icing. Danault was 1:00 into his shift when it went in.

GoalMTL on iceTOR on ice

0–1 TOR

1st 0:48 · Nylander

Matheson 0:48

1–1 MTL

1st 10:53 · Anderson

Nylander 0:45

2–1 MTL

2nd 4:52 · Bolduc

Tavares 0:40

3–1 MTL

3rd 13:12 · Carrier

McKenna 0:53

3–2 TOR

3rd 15:46 · Nylander

Long shift: Danault 1:00

Hover or tap a bar for the skater.

Across the league. Share of 5v5 unblocked shots that went in, by how far into his shift the defending team’s longest-serving skater was (2025–26).
3.9%
5.8%
6.5%
7.1%
7.3%
0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+

1.9×

Shots against a skater 80s+ into his shift go in 1.9 times as often as against fresh legs (7.3% vs 3.9%).

30%

of 5v5 goals came with a defender 60s+ into his shift.

Team stats

MTLTOR
24Shots on goal28
60%Faceoff %40%
0/2Power play0/3
8Penalty minutes8
28Hits23
11Blocked shots14
22Giveaways21
7Takeaways2

Penalties

  • 1st 08:33Nick Paul · hooking2 min
  • 1st 11:42Ivan Demidov · tripping2 min
  • 2nd 12:56Jake McCabe · roughing2 min
  • 2nd 12:56Alex Newhook · roughing2 min
  • 2nd 17:45Cole Caufield · tripping2 min
  • 3rd 07:01Oliver Ekman-Larsson · tripping2 min
  • 3rd 09:16Alexandre Texier · interference2 min
  • 3rd 20:00John Tavares · roughing2 min

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