Analyse
The Canadiens won more often when they shot less
In 2025-26 the Canadiens won 64% of the games in which they were outshot, and 50% of those in which they outshot the opponent. What that means — and what it does not.
October 1, 2026
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Analyse
A year ago in Toronto, the same game ended 5-2… for Toronto
Same building, same opponent, the same scorers on each side — and the opposite result. What last year's opener predicted about the season: nothing.
September 30, 2026
Match
26 saves in Toronto: Dobes opens the season
The Canadiens won 3-2 in Toronto in their season opener. Jakub Dobes stopped 26 of 28 shots.
September 30, 2026
Bilan
40 years later
A hundred points, fifty goals, two elite rookies in a row and the league's seventh-best offence. The 2025-26 season broke droughts four decades old.
September 29, 2026
Record
10 overtime wins: the spring of 1993 still stands
Thirty-three years on, no team has come close to the Canadiens' ten overtime wins in the 1993 playoffs. The next best is seven.
September 28, 2026
Histoire
24, 23, 22
The Canadiens have won 24 Stanley Cups. Depending on how you count, you can also land on 23, or 22 — and all three are defensible.
September 27, 2026