Montreal Canadiens at Florida Panthers

· National Hockey League

Montreal Canadiens

34-30-9

Final
4 - 2

Florida Panthers

44-26-3

Nick Suzuki scores to lead Canadiens over Panthers 4-2

Montreal Canadiens vs. Florida Panthers: Game Highlights

Suzuki scored on a snap shot with 17:58 left in the third period to put the Canadiens ahead 3-2. Juraj Slafkovsky and Lane Hutson each got an assist on the goal.

Patrik Laine, Brendan Gallagher and Slafkovsky also scored for the Canadiens.

Seth Jones and Sam Reinhart each scored for the Panthers.

Samuel Montembeault stopped 24 shots in the win for the Canadiens. Sergei Bobrovsky had 18 saves for the Panthers.

Takeaways Canadiens: Montreal is now 4-3-3 over its last 10 games.

Panthers: Florida is 5-5-0 in its last 10.

Key moment Gallagher helped close it out with an empty-netter with 1:44 left. Gallagher has three goals and five assists in his last seven games.

Key stat Hutson had three assists for Montreal. It was Hutson’s 14th multi-assist game of 2024-25, tying Larry Murphy (1980-81) for second-most in a season by a rookie defenseman in NHL history — trailing Chris Chelios with 16 in 1984-85.

Up next Next up for both clubs is a rematch on Tuesday.

Regular Season Series

MTL leads series 3-0

Scoring Summary

Goal	1st Period 12:03	Patrik Laine Goal (19) Slap Shot, assists: Lane Hutson (52), Nick Suzuki (53)
Goal	1st Period 13:16	Sam Reinhart Goal (36) Backhand, assists: Aleksander Barkov (47), Carter Verhaeghe (30)
Goal	2nd Period 11:27	Juraj Slafkovský Goal (17) Wrist Shot, assists: Nick Suzuki (54), Lane Hutson (53)
Goal	2nd Period 16:24	Seth Jones Goal (9) Slap Shot, assists: Aleksander Barkov (48), Evan Rodrigues (15)
Goal	3rd Period 2:02	Nick Suzuki Goal (23) Snap Shot, assists: Lane Hutson (54), Juraj Slafkovský (29)
Goal	3rd Period 18:16	Brendan Gallagher Goal (18) Wrist Shot, assists: Christian Dvorak (19)

Statistics

MTL		FLA
23	Blocked Shots	11
19	Hits	32
4	Takeaways	3
23	Shots	26
2	Power Play Goals	0
3	Power Play Opportunities	2
66.7	Power Play Percentage	0.0
0	Short Handed Goals	0
0	Shootout Goals	0
31	Faceoffs Won	22
58.5	Faceoff Win Percent	41.5
11	Giveaways	15
3	Total Penalties	6
6	Penalty Minutes	20