Montreal Canadiens

3rdin Atlantic · 1-0-0, 2 PTS

YES!

Montreal Canadiens beat the Toronto Maple Leafs

1-0-0, 2 PTS 3 – 2

0-1-0, 0 PTS

Final · Tue, Sep 29

Game Details

Scotiabank Arena (Toronto) · 19,088 fans · ESPN+

Highlights

Carrier's goal late in the 3rd period helps Canadiens beat Maple Leafs 3-2

Josh Anderson and Alexandre Carrier each had a goal and assist as the Montreal Canadiens beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 Tuesday night in the teams' season opener.

Recap via ESPN

0:39 William Nylander scores 48 seconds into Toronto's home opener vs. Montreal

0:23 Josh Anderson lights the lamp for Montreal

0:50 Zachary Bolduc's goal puts Montreal on top

0:39 Alexandre Carrier lights the lamp for Canadiens

Clips play on ESPN

Scotiabank Arena · Toronto

Line Score

	1	2	3	T
MTL	1	1	1	3
TOR	1	0	1	2

Game Leaders

Montreal Canadiens

Josh Anderson · 1Goals
Josh Anderson · 1Assists
Josh Anderson · 2Points

Toronto Maple Leafs

2026-27 Atlantic Division Standings

Team	W	L	OTL	Pts
Boston	2	1	0	4
Florida	1	0	2	4
Montreal	1	0	1	3
Ottawa	1	0	0	2
Buffalo	1	1	0	2
Tampa Bay	1	1	0	2
Toronto	1	2	0	2
Detroit	0	2	0	0

Scoring

3rd 15:46

William Nylander Goal (2) Wrist Shot, assists: Easton Cowan (1), John Tavares (1)3–2

3rd 13:12

Alexandre Carrier Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: none3–1

2nd 4:52

Zachary Bolduc Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Mike Matheson (1), Josh Anderson (1)2–1

1st 10:53

Josh Anderson Goal (1) Batted, assists: Alexandre Carrier (1), Kirby Dach (1)1–1

1st 0:48

William Nylander Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Morgan Rielly (1), Kirill Marchenko (1)0–1

Team Stats

Montreal CanadiensToronto Maple Leafs

Shots & Puck

24 Shots on Goal 28

11 Blocked Shots 14

28 Hits 23

60.4 Faceoff % 39.6

7 Takeaways 2

22 Giveaways 21

Special Teams

0/2 Power Play 0/3

0 Short-Handed Goals 0

8 Penalty Minutes 8

Box Score

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV	PN
J. Anderson	1	1	2	3	12:53	0	4	0	0	0:01	2:30	10:22	22	1	0	0	0.0	1	0
Z. Bolduc	1	0	1	2	11:04	0	0	0	0	1:28	0:00	9:36	15	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
C. Caufield	0	0	-1	3	15:55	2	3	0	0	2:23	0:00	13:32	21	2	1	0	100.0	0	1
K. Dach	0	1	1	1	11:07	0	2	0	0	0:00	0:00	11:07	14	1	2	0	100.0	2	0
P. Danault	0	0	1	0	15:37	0	1	0	0	0:03	2:48	12:46	21	0	5	5	50.0	1	0
I. Demidov	0	0	-1	1	15:11	2	2	0	0	2:23	0:00	12:48	19	1	0	0	0.0	0	1
J. Evans	0	0	1	1	14:50	0	3	1	1	0:00	2:57	11:53	22	1	10	7	58.8	0	0
C. Kreider	0	0	0	1	14:21	0	3	0	1	1:36	0:41	12:04	20	1	0	1	0.0	0	0
A. Newhook	0	0	0	1	16:11	2	3	1	0	1:24	2:31	12:16	24	1	7	2	77.8	1	1
J. Slafkovsky	0	0	0	2	17:53	0	0	0	0	2:26	0:00	15:27	20	3	0	1	0.0	2	0
N. Suzuki	0	0	-1	2	18:43	0	2	1	1	2:21	0:31	15:51	23	0	7	5	58.3	3	0
A. Texier	0	0	0	0	12:13	2	2	1	0	1:34	0:00	10:39	16	1	0	0	0.0	1	1

Defense

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV
A. Carrier	1	1	1	3	21:54	1	1	0	0:00	3:21	18:33	28	1	1
N. Dobson	0	0	0	1	21:56	0	2	1	1:28	2:39	17:49	32	1	3
L. Hutson	0	0	0	0	24:07	0	1	0	2:32	0:03	21:32	25	1	2
M. Matheson	0	1	1	3	25:07	0	2	1	0:21	4:30	20:16	31	0	1
J. Struble	0	0	0	0	11:02	2	0	1	0:00	0:00	11:02	14	0	1
A. Xhekaj	0	0	0	0	12:20	0	1	1	0:00	1:29	10:51	16	0	1

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
J. Dobes	26	28	2	.929	59:36	22	4	0	0

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV	PN
T. Blueger	0	0	0	1	9:46	0	1	0	0	0:01	1:16	8:29	15	0	1	7	12.5	1	0
E. Cowan	0	1	1	1	15:58	0	1	0	0	2:12	0:00	13:46	19	0	0	0	0.0	2	0
B. Duhaime	0	0	0	0	9:04	0	4	1	0	0:00	1:14	7:50	16	0	0	1	0.0	0	0
Z. MacEwen	0	0	0	0	5:25	0	0	0	0	0:00	0:00	5:25	9	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
K. Marchenko	0	1	1	4	20:08	0	2	0	0	3:25	0:00	16:43	21	2	0	0	0.0	1	0
A. Matthews	0	0	-1	3	22:34	0	0	0	0	4:04	1:01	17:29	23	0	5	5	50.0	0	0
G. McKenna	0	0	-2	1	15:19	0	0	0	0	2:33	0:00	12:46	18	0	0	0	0.0	2	0
W. Nylander	2	0	-1	5	18:55	0	0	1	0	3:11	0:55	14:49	24	2	0	1	0.0	1	0
N. Paul	0	0	-1	0	15:32	2	2	2	0	2:34	1:24	11:34	21	0	3	6	33.3	0	1
J. Roslovic	0	0	0	2	18:14	0	1	0	0	2:33	0:00	15:41	21	0	1	2	33.3	1	0
C. Sissons	0	0	0	0	14:58	0	4	1	1	0:00	2:08	12:50	20	1	2	3	40.0	1	0
J. Tavares	0	1	0	4	16:36	2	1	2	0	3:27	0:00	13:09	21	2	9	7	56.3	3	1

Defense

Player	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV	PN
O. Ekman-Larsson	0	0	1	18:07	2	1	2	0	0:00	1:17	16:50	26	0	1	1
J. McCabe	0	0	1	11:38	2	3	0	0	0:04	1:07	10:27	21	1	1	1
D. Raddysh	0	-2	3	23:47	0	0	2	1	4:20	0:06	19:21	28	2	5	0
M. Rielly	1	-1	1	21:30	0	2	0	0	1:36	1:38	18:16	30	0	1	0
T. Stecher	0	1	0	19:05	0	1	0	0	0:00	1:51	17:14	26	0	1	0
C. Tanev	0	0	1	18:39	0	0	3	0	0:00	2:03	16:36	31	0	0	0

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
S. Bobrovsky	21	24	3	.875	58:45	18	3	0	0

Injury Report

Toronto Maple Leafs

Dakota Joshua CInjured Reserve
Max Domi CInjured Reserve
Cade Webber DInjured Reserve
Elvis Merzlikins GInjured Reserve
William Villeneuve DInjured Reserve

Montreal Canadiens

Oliver Kapanen CDay-To-Day
Alexandre Carrier DDay-To-Day
Bryce Pickford DInjured Reserve
Lucas Condotta LWInjured Reserve
Kaiden Guhle DInjured Reserve

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