Montréal Canadiens @ Toronto Maple Leafs
07:00 PM at Scotiabank Arena
Watch on: SN, TVAS

The Leafs last game was at home on November 3 against the Utah Mammoth, which Toronto lost by a score of 3-2 in regulation. The Leafs have a record of 8-7-2 for a 0.529 Points %.

The Montréal Canadiens last played at home on November 5 against the Utah Mammoth. The Canadiens won by a score of 5-4 in overtime, and their current league record is 10-3-3 for a 0.719 Points %.

Them

The standings never lie, Montréal is a near perfect team.

They are excellent at Corsi at five-on-five so far this year, but in both offence and defence, they give away a lot of quality.

Clearly that's a perfect formula.

They have a very bad power play and they score on it even worse, which is how perfect teams go about things.

They have an average PK overall, and allow an average number of goals. This is the way – don't sweat the special teams.

In all-situations their goaltending has only been average.

Okay, it is a little interesting that the sanctified greatest team ever to play hockey with the bestest coach ever is producing results 180 degrees from last year, and is also the inverse Leafs, and yet the song hasn't changed about how inherently great they are.

The other interesting thing is that we are actually early enough in the season that the five-on-five xG% they sport is over 51% and they are ranked 16th. So there are more teams over 50 than under. I blame the Canucks for this.

Jake will be in net for them. Fowler has been very good, Dobes very bad, which is how they arrived at their averageness in that respect.

Lines

Last Game (2026-11-05) via Daily Faceoff

Cole Caufield - Nick Suzuki - Juraj Slafkovsky
Chris Kreider - Jake Evans - Josh Anderson
Zack Bolduc - Phillip Danault - Alexandre Texier
Alex Newhook - Oliver Kapanen - Kirby Dach

Lane Hutson - Noah Dobson
Kaiden Guhle - Alexandre Carrier
Arber Xhekaj - Adam Engstrom

Jacob Fowler
Jakub Dobes

Us

John Tavares returns and will play on the wing, as worked on in practice this week.

The reason the Leafs cleared up some roster space by waiving Bo Groulx was provided today when they recalled Artur Akhtyamov to backup this weekend. Anthony Stolarz gets his hometown team tomorrow night.

Lines

David Alter via Daily Faceoff

Easton Cowan - Auston Matthews - Jack Roslovic
John Tavares - Nick Paul - William Nylander
Dakota Joshua - Colton Sissons - Gavin McKenna
Brandon Duhaime - Teddy Blueger - Zack MacEwen

Jake McCabe - Darren Raddysh
Morgan Rielly - Chris Tanev
Oliver Ekman-Larsson - Troy Stecher

Sergei Bobrovsky
Artur Akhtyamov

The Game

Note: the actual induction game is tomorrow.

There's only one result to this game that will satisfy.

Game Coverage