NHL · Sunday 27 September · Bell Centre
Montreal Canadiens – Ottawa Senators 4:2: NHL, 27/09/2026
Key facts
Form, table position, scoring and head-to-head in one place
Form: up to the last 5 matches in all competitions, most recent on the left (W = win, D = draw, L = loss). Averages come from the league table; where there is none, from these recent matches.
Form · last 5
League position
Goals per game · season
Head to head · 2
wins – draws – wins
Match report
The match in a few sentences: score, scorers, table impact
The text is generated automatically from the match data and updates with it.
NHL: Montreal Canadiens – Ottawa Senators 4:2 (27 September). Montreal Canadiens won. Venue: Bell Centre.
By period: 1:2, 1:0, 2:0. Ottawa Senators led after the first period (1:2), but their opponents came back to win.
Goals: P. Tomasino (Ottawa Senators); C. Kreider (Montreal Canadiens); T. Boucher (Ottawa Senators); N. Dobson (Montreal Canadiens); J. Slafkovsky (Montreal Canadiens); P. Danault (Montreal Canadiens).
Table now: Montreal Canadiens — 4th, 25 points from 17 matches; Ottawa Senators — 6th, 23 points from 18 matches.
Head to head (2): Montreal Canadiens — 1 win, Ottawa Senators — 1.
Score by period
Goals in each period
OT = overtime, SO = shoot-out.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Σ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montreal Canadiens | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Ottawa Senators | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Events
Goals with assists and penalties by period
1st period
- 06'pen.
Fighting
- 06'pen.
Fighting
- 11'pen.
Interference
- 11'
🏒 P. Tomasino0:1
assist: C. Kyrou, K. Halttunen · Power-play
- 13'
🏒 C. Kreider1:1
assist: N. Suzuki, M. Matheson
- 18'pen.
High sticking
- 19'
🏒 T. Boucher1:2
assist: X. Bourgault, R. Suzuki · Power-play
- 19'pen.
Interference
2nd period
- 00'
🏒 N. Dobson2:2
assist: J. Slafkovsky, C. Caufield · Power-play
- 05'pen.
Roughing
- 05'pen.
Roughing
- 10'pen.
Roughing
- 10'pen.
Roughing
- 12'pen.
Hooking
3rd period
- 01'pen.
Holding
- 06'
🏒 J. Slafkovsky3:2
assist: N. Dobson, P. Danault
- 12'
🏒 P. Danault4:2
assist: J. Slafkovsky, M. Matheson
- 19'pen.
Holding
Game leaders
Top performers in this game
Points (goals + assists)
- 13
- 22
- 32
- 42
- 51
- 61
Skaters
Each skater's contribution in this game
G = goals, A = assists, P = points (G + A), Pen. = penalties. Counted from match events; +/−, shots and time on ice are not available from the data source.
Montreal Canadiens
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. Slafkovsky | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| N. Dobson | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| P. Danault | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| M. Matheson | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| C. Kreider | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| C. Caufield | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| N. Suzuki | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| A. Newhook | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| F. Xhekaj | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| J. Anderson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| J. Evans | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| T. Thorpe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Ottawa Senators
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P. Tomasino | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| T. Boucher | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| C. Kyrou | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| K. Halttunen | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| R. Suzuki | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| X. Bourgault | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| D. Toure | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| N. Matinpalo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| R. Greig | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Goaltenders
Shots, saves and goals against
SOG = shots on goal, SV = saves, GA = goals against, SV% = SV / SOG, TOI = time on ice.
Montreal Canadiens
| Goaltender | SOG | SV | GA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. Fowler(W) | 18 | 16 | 2 | 88.9% |
| S. Montembeault(W) | 16 | 14 | 2 | 87.5% |
Ottawa Senators
| Goaltender | SOG | SV | GA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. Ersson | 26 | 22 | 4 | 84.6% |
Team stats
Both teams' numbers side by side
- 26Shots on goal32
- 30Saves22
- 93%Save %84%
- 37Faceoffs won26
- 19Penalty minutes11
- 8Penalties4
- 1Power-play goals2
- 25%Power play %25%
- 75%Penalty kill %75%
- 0Short-handed goals0
Teams in the table
Both teams' positions in the league table
Full table on the competition page. Form: recent matches, most recent on the right.
| # | Team | P | W | OTW | OTL | L | Pts | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 25 | WWLWW | |
| 6 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 23 | LWLWW |
Form
Team leaders
Each team's best players this season
Points (goals + assists)
Goal scorers
Assists
Recent matches
Both teams' recent results in all competitions
H — home, A — away
Head to head
Previous meetings between the two teams
Only matches in our data source (usually recent seasons).