Top Cheddar 2026-27

Saturday, April 4, 2026 · Prudential Center

Canadiens 4 at Devils 3

Final/SO

Three Stars

C 98OVR Jack Hughes Devils First Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG R 98OVR Cole Caufield Canadiens Second Star 2A · 5 SOG R 73OVR Timo Meier Devils Third Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG · 5 HIT

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 15:58 Jayden Struble (2) Cole Caufield (35), Arber Xhekaj (2) · Wrist MTL 1 – 0 NJD

2nd Period

  1. 8:12 Ivan Demidov (17) PPG Cole Caufield (36), Nick Suzuki (68) · Snap MTL 2 – 0 NJD
  2. 9:28 Lane Hutson (12) Unassisted · Wrist MTL 3 – 0 NJD
  3. 13:08 Dawson Mercer (18) Timo Meier (18), Nico Hischier (36) · Wrist MTL 3 – 1 NJD
  4. 17:40 Jack Hughes (25) SHG Jesper Bratt (47), Jonas Siegenthaler (13) · Wrist MTL 3 – 2 NJD

3rd Period

  1. 17:45 Timo Meier (23) Jack Hughes (45), Dougie Hamilton (23) · Snap MTL 3 – 3 NJD

Overtime

No scoring

Shootout

  1. Oliver Kapanen Deciding shootout goal · Wrist MTL 4 – 3 NJD

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Cole Caufield R 0 2 5 0 0 0 22:15 1.63
Jayden Struble D 1 0 1 3 1 +2 15:28 1.23
Lane Hutson D 1 0 1 0 1 +1 29:47 1.13
Ivan Demidov R 1 0 4 0 0 -1 20:40 0.75
Nick Suzuki C 0 1 1 0 1 0 23:55 0.65
Arber Xhekaj D 0 1 0 2 0 0 10:00 0.63
Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 4 2 0 0 9:48 0.35
Alex Newhook C 0 0 4 1 1 -1 15:15 0.20
Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 14:30 0.15
Phillip Danault C 0 0 2 0 0 0 12:11 0.15
Jake Evans C 0 0 1 1 1 0 14:43 0.13
Joseph Veleno C 0 0 0 2 0 0 10:06 0.00
Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 1 3 0 -1 16:53 -0.08
Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 22:46 -0.10
Zachary Bolduc R 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:06 -0.10
Oliver Kapanen C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 14:33 -0.13
Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 1 0 -1 24:01 -0.20
Noah Dobson D 0 0 0 1 1 -2 22:08 -0.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jakub Dobes W 38 35 3 .921 65:00 1.25

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Timo Meier R 1 1 7 5 0 +2 20:06 2.20
Jack Hughes C 1 1 5 0 3 +1 26:26 1.80
Nico Hischier C 0 1 3 1 1 +2 23:47 1.15
Dawson Mercer C 1 0 3 0 1 +1 21:47 1.13
Dougie Hamilton D 0 1 3 3 2 +1 22:54 1.00
Jesper Bratt L 0 1 4 2 0 +1 20:24 0.98
Luke Hughes D 0 0 4 0 0 +1 27:43 0.40
Jonas Siegenthaler D 0 1 0 0 1 -1 18:55 0.38
Connor Brown R 0 0 4 2 0 +1 22:17 0.35
Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 0 0 2 1 +1 21:08 0.20
Simon Nemec D 0 0 2 0 1 0 18:23 0.15
Paul Cotter L 0 0 0 0 2 0 6:27 0.10
Marc McLaughlin C 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:34 0.00
Brian Halonen L 0 0 0 1 0 0 5:56 0.00
Lenni Hameenaho R 0 0 1 1 1 -1 9:39 -0.02
Cody Glass C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 12:43 -0.22
Nick Bjugstad C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 9:16 -0.22
Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 15:15 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jake Allen O 29 26 3 .897 64:53 0.35