Ottawa Senators at Montréal Canadiens: game preview
OttawaSenators2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 44-27-11 · 99 pts · 9that
MontréalCanadiens2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 48-24-10 · 106 pts · 6thSeven points apart last season
Ottawa finished last season 9th in the league on 99 points. Montréal finished 6th on 106, and the 2025-26 season series went MTL 3-1-0.
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Meeting number 193
Across 192 completed games, Ottawa lead the head-to-head 96-79-17.
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 1 Nov 2025, Ottawa were 15th in the league and Montréal 4th. By 11 Mar 2026 it was 14th and 7th.
Ottawa out-attempted Montréal 261 to 200
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Ottawa Senators
Montréal Canadiens
Ottawa 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 Ottawa, 3 for Montréal. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Ottawa, 10 for Montréal.
2025-26: 82 games for Ottawa, 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
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Small sampleMontréal
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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.
Ottawa crease
OTT · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 21 Mar
No appearances against Montréal in the last meetings.
Montréal crease
MTL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 21 Mar
No appearances against Ottawa in the last meetings.
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
Ottawa3.332.673.393.00
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.
11 on the injury lists
Ottawa · injuries
Montréal · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Recalled G Marcus Johansson from Belleville (AHL). Assigned D Donovan Sebrango to Belleville.
Recalled D Donovan Sebrango from Belleville (AHL). Placed LW Andre Burakovsky on injured reserve.
Loaned D Hoyt Stanley to Belleville (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).
Ottawa · 2026 draft
See all: Ottawa · 2026 draft →Montréal · 2026 draft
See all: Montréal · 2026 draft →Wednesday 24 March · the full slate
See all: Wednesday 24 March · the full slate →
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