St. Louis Blues at Montréal Canadiens: game preview
St. LouisBlues2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 37-33-12 · 86 pts · 22ndat
MontréalCanadiens2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 48-24-10 · 106 pts · 6thTwenty points apart last season
St. Louis finished last season 22nd in the league on 86 points. Montréal finished 6th on 106.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 160
Across 159 completed games, Montréal lead the head-to-head 109-41-9.
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 7 Dec 2025, St. Louis were 27th in the league and Montréal 14th. By 3 Jan 2026 it was 27th and 7th.
Montréal out-attempted St. Louis 122 to 75
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
St. Louis Blues
Montréal Canadiens
St. Louis 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: 3 games for St. Louis, 3 for Montréal. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for St. Louis, 10 for Montréal.
2025-26: 82 games for St. Louis, 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
St. Louis
Small sampleMontréal
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.
St. Louis crease
STL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Jan
No appearances against Montréal in the last meetings.
Montréal crease
MTL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Jan
No appearances against St. Louis in the last meetings.
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
St. Louis2.333.332.823.15
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.
9 on the injury lists
St. Louis · injuries
Montréal · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed LW Alexey Toropchenko on injured reserve.
Placed G Georgii Romanov and D Calle Rosen on waivers. Claimed RD Justin Barron off waivers.
Placed D Marc Andre Gaudet was placed 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).
St. Louis · 2026 draft
See all: St. Louis · 2026 draft →Montréal · 2026 draft
See all: Montréal · 2026 draft →
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