Carolina Hurricanes at Montréal Canadiens: game preview
CarolinaHurricanes2026-27: 2-1-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 53-22-7 · 113 pts · 2ndat
MontréalCanadiens2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 48-24-10 · 106 pts · 6thSeven points apart last season
Carolina finished last season 2nd in the league on 113 points. Montréal finished 6th on 106, and the 2025-26 season series went CAR 4-4-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 119
Across 118 completed games, Carolina lead the head-to-head 63-40-14.
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 23 May 2026, Carolina were 2nd in the league and Montréal 6th. By 6 Oct it was 8th and 20th.
Carolina out-attempted Montréal 370 to 215
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Carolina Hurricanes
Montréal Canadiens
Carolina 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 Carolina, 3 for Montréal. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Carolina, 10 for Montréal.
2025-26: 86 games for Carolina, 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
Carolina
Small sampleMontréal
Small sampleTaylor Hall has 6 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.
Taylor Hall vs Montréal · game by game
See all: Taylor Hall vs Montréal · game by game →Jakub Dobes has been the difference
Jakub Dobes faced 170 shots across 5 appearances against Carolina and conceded 19, a .888 save percentage against a season figure of .857. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Carolina crease
CAR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 23 Jan
Jakub Dobes
See all: Jakub Dobes →MTL · 1-1-1 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 23 Jan
Scoring rates point to about 6.6 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
Carolina2.753.003.612.93
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.
7 on the injury lists
Carolina · injuries
Montréal · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed G Cayden Primeau on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed LD Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed D Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
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).
Carolina · 2026 draft
See all: Carolina · 2026 draft →Montréal · 2026 draft
See all: Montréal · 2026 draft →Tuesday 26 January · the full slate
See all: Tuesday 26 January · the full slate →
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