Detroit Red Wings at Montréal Canadiens: game preview
DetroitRed Wings2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 41-31-10 · 92 pts · 16that
MontréalCanadiens2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 48-24-10 · 106 pts · 6thFourteen points apart last season
Detroit finished last season 16th in the league on 92 points. Montréal finished 6th on 106, and the 2025-26 season series went DET 2-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 662
Across 661 completed games, Montréal lead the head-to-head 373-270-18.
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 9 Oct 2025, Detroit were 30th in the league and Montréal 14th. By 19 Mar 2026 it was 10th and 8th.
Detroit out-attempted Montréal 324 to 276
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Detroit Red Wings
Montréal Canadiens
Detroit and Montréal 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 Detroit, 3 for Montréal. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Detroit, 10 for Montréal.
2025-26: 82 games for Detroit, 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
Detroit
Small sampleMontréal
Small sampleAlex DeBrincat 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.
Alex DeBrincat vs Montréal · game by game
See all: Alex DeBrincat vs Montréal · game by game →John Gibson has started most of these meetings
John Gibson played 3 of the last 5 meetings with Montréal, with a .918 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
John Gibson
See all: John Gibson →DET · 1-2-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 25 Mar
Montréal crease
MTL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 25 Mar
Two goalies used against Detroit
Scoring rates point to about 6.4 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
Detroit2.332.672.943.15
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.
12 on the injury lists
Detroit · injuries
Montréal · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed F Dylan Larkin on the non-roster injured reserve.
Assigned Fs Ondrej Becher, Cameron Butler, Sheldon Dries, Noah Dower Nilsson, Dylan James, Jesse Kiiskinen, John Leonard, Sutter Muzzatti, Theo Rochette, Dominik Shine and Wilmer Skoog, Ds Ronnie Attard, Jacob Bryson, Shai Buium and William Lagesson and Gs Trey Augustine and Michal Postava to Grand Rapids (AHL).
Acquired F Sutter Muzzatti from Nashville Predators for future considerations.
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).
Detroit · 2026 draft
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