Toronto Maple Leafs at Montréal Canadiens: game preview
TorontoMaple Leafs2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 32-36-14 · 78 pts · 28that
MontréalCanadiens2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 48-24-10 · 106 pts · 6thTwenty-eight points apart last season
Toronto finished last season 28th in the league on 78 points. Montréal finished 6th on 106, and the 2025-26 season series went MTL 3-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 781
Across 780 completed games, Montréal lead the head-to-head 419-323-38.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 8 Oct 2025, Toronto were 1st in the league and Montréal 31st. By 29 Sep it was 30th and 3rd.
Montréal out-attempted Toronto 313 to 253
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Montréal Canadiens
Montréal have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 4 games for Toronto, 3 for Montréal. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Toronto, 10 for Montréal.
2025-26: 82 games for Toronto, 82 for Montréal.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Toronto
Small sampleMontréal
Small sampleWilliam Nylander has 2 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Toronto crease
TOR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 23 Dec
Montréal crease
MTL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 23 Dec
Scoring rates point to about 6.7 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Toronto2.752.753.093.65
Montréal4.004.673.453.12Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
10 on the injury lists
Toronto · injuries
Montréal · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed RW Nikita Grebenkin on injured reserve.
Moved C Max Domi from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed D Cade Webber on the injured non-roster list.
Placed D Reilly Walsh, D Maksymilian Szuber, D Ethan Samson, C Sam Poulin, RW Sasha Pastujov, C Hunter McKown, G Kaapo Kähkönen, LW Brett Berard, and RW Alex Belzile on waivers for the purpose of loaning them to Laval (AHL).
Signed F Chris Kreider to a one-year contract.
Loaned F Vinzenz Rohrer to EV Zug (Switzerland).
Toronto · 2026 draft
See all: Toronto · 2026 draft →Montréal · 2026 draft
See all: Montréal · 2026 draft →Saturday 26 December · the full slate
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