Chicago Blackhawks at Toronto Maple Leafs: game preview
ChicagoBlackhawks2026-27: 1-3-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 29-39-14 · 72 pts · 31stat
TorontoMaple Leafs2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 32-36-14 · 78 pts · 28thSix points apart last season
Chicago finished last season 31st in the league on 72 points. Toronto finished 28th on 78.
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Meeting number 699
Across 698 completed games, Toronto lead the head-to-head 358-314-26.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 15 Nov 2025, Chicago were 11th in the league and Toronto 27th. By 16 Dec 2025 it was 27th and 21st.
Toronto out-attempted Chicago 121 to 107
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Chicago Blackhawks
Toronto Maple Leafs
Chicago 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 Chicago, 4 for Toronto. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Chicago, 10 for Toronto.
2025-26: 82 games for Chicago, 82 for Toronto.
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
Chicago
Small sampleToronto
Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Chicago crease
CHI · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 11 Jan
No appearances against Toronto in the last meetings.
Toronto crease
TOR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 11 Jan
No appearances against Chicago in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.3 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
Chicago2.254.252.603.35
Toronto2.752.753.093.65Goals 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.
8 on the injury lists
Chicago · injuries
Toronto · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Assigned D Charles Alexis Legault to Chicago (AHL).
Agreed to terms with F Oliver Moore on a five-year contract extension. Loaned Fs Jiri felcman, Martin Misiak and Marek Vanacker and D Dylan Anhorn to Rockford (AHL). Assigned F Brett Seney to Rockford.
Placed D Derrick Pouliot on waivers.
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.
Chicago · 2026 draft
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