Montréal Canadiens at Nashville Predators: game preview
MontréalCanadiens2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 48-24-10 · 106 pts · 6that
NashvillePredators2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 38-34-10 · 86 pts · 23rdTwenty points apart last season
Montréal finished last season 6th in the league on 106 points. Nashville finished 23rd on 86, and the 2025-26 season series went MTL 2-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 39
Across 38 completed games, Montréal lead the head-to-head 21-11-6.
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 16 Oct 2025, Montréal were 3rd in the league and Nashville 14th. By 28 Mar 2026 it was 7th and 20th.
Nashville out-attempted Montréal 321 to 259
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Montréal Canadiens
Nashville Predators
Montréal and Nashville are level on 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: 3 games for Montréal, 3 for Nashville. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Montréal, 10 for Nashville.
2025-26: 82 games for Montréal, 82 for Nashville.
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
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Small sampleNashville
Small sampleNick Suzuki has 7 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.
Nick Suzuki vs Nashville · game by game
See all: Nick Suzuki vs Nashville · game by game →Jakub Dobes has been the difference
Jakub Dobes faced 56 shots across 2 appearances against Nashville and conceded 3, a .946 save percentage against a season figure of .857. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Jakub Dobes
See all: Jakub Dobes →MTL · 1-1-1 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 11 Jan
Juuse Saros
See all: Juuse Saros →NSH · 1-1-1 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 11 Jan
Scoring rates point to about 6.5 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
Montréal4.004.673.453.12
Nashville2.333.003.013.28Goals 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.
6 on the injury lists
Montréal · injuries
Nashville · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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).
Recalled G Matt Murray from Milwaukee (AHL). Placed G Justus Annunen on injured reserve.
Recalled LW Yegor Pinchuk from Milwaukee (AHL). Assigned G Matt Murray to Milwaukee.
Recalled G Matthew Murray from Milwaukee (AHL).
Montréal · 2026 draft
See all: Montréal · 2026 draft →Nashville · 2026 draft
See all: Nashville · 2026 draft →
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