Montreal at Ottawa — NHL September 26, 2026

3 – 4

Final

Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, ON

	1	2	3	T
MTL	1	0	2	3
OTT	1	2	1	4

MTL 23 shots on goal 26 OTT

Three stars

1st star

C. Giroux

1 goal

2 assists

-2 rating

2nd star

C. Yakemchuk

1 goal

-1 rating

3rd star

A. Belzile

1 goal

+1 rating

Scoring

	1st Per	MTL	OTT
3:49	Brett Berard 1 (Assists: Hunter McKown 1, Sasha Pastujov 1)	1	0
9:16	Claude Giroux 1 (power-play) (Assists: Thomas Chabot 1, Andre Burakovsky 2)	1	1

	2nd Per	MTL	OTT
10:31	Drake Batherson 1 (power-play) (Assists: Jake Sanderson 1, Claude Giroux 2)	1	2
11:12	Carter Yakemchuk 1 (power-play) (Assists: Andre Burakovsky 3, Claude Giroux 3)	1	3

	3rd Per	MTL	OTT
5:19	Alex Belzile 1 (Assists: Jayden Struble 1)	2	3
7:05	Sasha Pastujov 1 (Unassisted)	3	3
10:57	William Eklund 2 (power-play) (Assists: Dylan Cozens 2, Tim Stutzle 1)	3	4

Penalties

1st Per

2nd Per

3rd Per

3:04 David Reinbacher (Tripping - 2 min) drawn by Nick Cousins
3:26 Dylan Cozens (Tripping - 2 min) drawn by Kirby Dach
4:18 Arber Xhekaj (Tripping - 2 min) drawn by Stephen Halliday
7:32 Dylan Cozens (High-Sticking - 2 min) drawn by Hunter McKown
10:10 Sam Poulin (Roughing - 2 min) drawn by Nick Cousins served by Dillan Bentley
10:10 Sam Poulin (Interference - 2 min) drawn by Nick Cousins served by Dillan Bentley
10:10 Sam Poulin (Misconduct - 10 min)
13:39 Dillan Bentley (High-Sticking - 2 min) drawn by Tyler Kleven
13:39 Hayden Hodgson (Roughing - 2 min) drawn by Dillan Bentley