Top Cheddar 2026-27

Saturday, March 22, 2025 · Centre Bell

Avalanche 5 at Canadiens 4

Final/SO

Three Stars

L 80OVR Juraj Slafkovský Canadiens First Star 2G · 3 SOG C 88OVR Brock Nelson Avalanche Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG C 94OVR Martin Necas Avalanche Third Star 1G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:35 Sam Malinski (3) Joel Kiviranta (7), Ross Colton (13) · Slap COL 1 – 0 MTL
  2. 10:09 Ryan Lindgren (4) Brock Nelson (26), Artturi Lehkonen (16) · Snap COL 2 – 0 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 5:24 Martin Necas (24) PPG Jonathan Drouin (23), Valeri Nichushkin (11) · Snap COL 3 – 0 MTL
  2. 5:51 Juraj Slafkovský (15) Jayden Struble (9), Nick Suzuki (51) · Tip-in COL 3 – 1 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 3:58 Brock Nelson (23) Devon Toews (27) · Tip-in COL 4 – 1 MTL
  2. 9:24 Joshua Roy (2) Alex Newhook (10), Patrik Laine (13) · Snap COL 4 – 2 MTL
  3. 9:54 Juraj Slafkovský (16) Alexandre Carrier (20) · Snap COL 4 – 3 MTL
  4. 13:32 Christian Dvorak (9) Brendan Gallagher (13) · Backhand COL 4 – 4 MTL

Overtime

No scoring

Shootout

  1. Brock Nelson Deciding shootout goal · Wrist COL 5 – 4 MTL

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brock Nelson C 1 1 2 0 0 +1 16:30 1.68
Martin Necas C 1 0 3 0 1 +1 17:56 1.23
Ryan Lindgren D 1 0 2 1 2 0 20:40 1.05
Sam Malinski D 1 0 2 2 2 0 17:39 1.00
Artturi Lehkonen L 0 1 2 0 1 +1 16:33 0.98
Joel Kiviranta L 0 1 0 2 1 0 13:10 0.73
Valeri Nichushkin R 0 1 3 2 2 -2 24:09 0.70
Devon Toews D 0 1 3 0 2 -1 28:05 0.70
Ross Colton C 0 1 1 1 1 0 9:34 0.50
Jonathan Drouin L 0 1 2 1 1 -2 22:04 0.48
Cale Makar D 0 0 6 0 2 -1 31:06 0.40
Jack Drury C 0 0 1 1 1 0 10:34 0.13
Charlie Coyle C 0 0 2 1 0 0 13:34 0.00
Jimmy Vesey L 0 0 0 0 0 0 7:47 0.00
Miles Wood L 0 0 2 2 1 0 8:43 0.00
Nathan MacKinnon C 0 0 6 0 0 -2 22:09 0.00
Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 2 0 0 16:44 0.00
Keaton Middleton D 0 0 0 2 0 0 10:31 -0.33
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mackenzie Blackwood W 29 25 4 .862 64:57 -0.50

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Juraj Slafkovský L 2 0 3 0 0 +1 19:23 1.53
Nick Suzuki C 0 1 3 2 1 +1 22:44 1.05
Christian Dvorak C 1 0 3 1 1 0 16:21 1.03
Alexandre Carrier D 0 1 1 2 2 +1 21:23 0.95
Joshua Roy R 1 0 1 0 3 0 11:07 0.93
Patrik Laine L 0 1 3 0 1 0 17:30 0.90
Alex Newhook C 0 1 2 0 1 0 15:13 0.83
Jayden Struble D 0 1 0 5 1 +1 20:36 0.83
Brendan Gallagher R 0 1 1 0 1 0 15:38 0.70
Cole Caufield R 0 0 6 2 0 +1 19:06 0.65
Lane Hutson D 0 0 1 0 4 +2 28:51 0.58
Mike Matheson D 0 0 2 1 0 +2 26:35 0.30
Emil Heineman L 0 0 0 5 0 +1 11:50 0.15
Jake Evans C 0 0 2 2 0 0 16:37 0.15
Joel Armia R 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:16 -0.03
David Savard D 0 0 0 0 1 -2 12:19 -0.25
Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 4 1 -1 14:35 -0.30
Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 3 1 -2 11:35 -0.63
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Samuel Montembeault O 37 33 4 .892 65:00 0.30