Nashville Predators at Montréal Canadiens: game preview
NashvillePredators2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 38-34-10 · 86 pts · 23rdat
MontréalCanadiens2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 48-24-10 · 106 pts · 6thTwenty points apart last season
Nashville finished last season 23rd in the league on 86 points. Montréal finished 6th on 106, 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, Nashville were 14th in the league and Montréal 3rd. By 28 Mar 2026 it was 20th and 7th.
Nashville out-attempted Montréal 321 to 259
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Nashville Predators
Montréal Canadiens
Nashville 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 Nashville, 3 for Montréal. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Nashville, 10 for Montréal.
2025-26: 82 games for Nashville, 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
Nashville
Small sampleMontréal
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.
- Started 3 of 3 this season
- 59 of the team's last 82 starts
2026-27: 3 GP · .907 SV% · GSAx +0
Injured: Annunen (injured reserve)
- Started 3 of 3 this season
- 44 of the team's last 82 starts
2026-27: 3 GP · .857 SV% · GSAx −3
Also possible: Montembeault 23%
Juuse Saros
See all: Juuse Saros →NSH · 1-1-1 in 2026-27 Expected starter · 100%
Jakub Dobes
See all: Jakub Dobes →MTL · 1-1-1 in 2026-27 Expected starter · 77%
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
Nashville2.333.003.013.28
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.
6 on the injury lists
Nashville · injuries
Montréal · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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).
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).
Nashville · 2026 draft
See all: Nashville · 2026 draft →Montréal · 2026 draft
See all: Montréal · 2026 draft →
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