Montréal Canadiens at Edmonton Oilers: game preview
MontréalCanadiens2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 48-24-10 · 106 pts · 6that
EdmontonOilers2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 41-30-11 · 93 pts · 14thThirteen points apart last season
Montréal finished last season 6th in the league on 106 points. Edmonton finished 14th on 93.
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Meeting number 114
Across 113 completed games, Edmonton lead the head-to-head 62-45-6.
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 23 Oct 2025, Montréal were 7th in the league and Edmonton 14th. By 14 Dec 2025 it was 12th and 18th.
Edmonton out-attempted Montréal 118 to 111
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Montréal Canadiens
Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton 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 Montréal, 3 for Edmonton. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Montréal, 10 for Edmonton.
2025-26: 82 games for Montréal, 82 for Edmonton.
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
Montréal
Small sampleEdmonton
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.
Montréal crease
MTL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 27 Jan
No appearances against Edmonton in the last meetings.
Edmonton crease
EDM · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 27 Jan
No appearances against Montréal in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 7.1 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
Edmonton5.674.673.443.28Goals 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.
14 on the injury lists
Montréal · injuries
Edmonton · 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).
Placed F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on injured reserve. Placed D Alec Regula on long-term injured reserve. Recalled F Josh Samanski under emergency conditions.
Placed G Matt Tomkins on waivers for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield (AHL).
Loaned D Tomas Cibulka, Fs Connor Clattenburg, Quinn Hutson, Viljami Marjala, William Nicholl and Aku Raty and G Connor Ungar to Bakersfield (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield Ds Josh Brown and Riley Stillman and F Eduards Tralmaks.
Montréal · 2026 draft
See all: Montréal · 2026 draft →Edmonton · 2026 draft
See all: Edmonton · 2026 draft →Saturday 30 January · the full slate
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