The Montreal Canadiens entered the vacation break in model with a 6-2 win over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday at TD Backyard.
Montreal scored 4 occasions within the third interval. The win erased years of futility by the Habs in Boston, the place that they had misplaced 9 straight previous to yesterday’s win. It was their first victory there since 2019.
Montreal’s defence powered the offence, with Lane Hutson and Noah Dobson every getting three factors. Nick Suzuki, Juraj Slafkovsky and Ivan Demidov every had a objective and an help.
Jacob Fowler began in objective and made 26 saves.
Phillip Danault additionally made his first begin since rejoining the Habs in a commerce with the Los Angeles Kings on Friday night time. He was held pointless in 15:29.
Proper off the opening face-off, fireworks within the type of Josh Anderson and Tanner Jeannot settling scores from final recreation by dropping the gloves.
JOSH ANDERSON AND TANNER JEANNOT DROP THE GLOVES RIGHT OFF THE OPENING DRAW 😱🥊 pic.twitter.com/Dg803NmIrz
— Gino Exhausting (@GinoHard_) December 24, 2025
That was adopted a little bit over eight minutes later by one other battle, this time between Nikita Zadorov and Arber Xhekaj.
FIGHT 👀Arber Xhekaj and Nikita Zadorov drop the gloves at centre ice. pic.twitter.com/ZIDzsYaUX3
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) December 24, 2025
The primary objective of the night time was scored by Sammy Blais. It was additionally his first as a Hab, and got here from a Cole Caufield-like financial institution shot from under the objective line.
Le premier de Blais avec Montréal!Sammy’s first as a Hab!#GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/DuRBPDNNEi
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) December 24, 2025
Marat Khusnutdinov responded for the Bruins 1:17 later.
Marat Khusnutdinov est oublié devant le filet et marque! 🚨#GoHabsGo c. #NHLBruins sur RDS 📺 pic.twitter.com/09USEh5hpd
— RDS (@RDSca) December 24, 2025
In all, referees doled out 68 penalty minutes between each golf equipment. Boston obtained 4 energy performs and scored on one among them. Alex Steeves beat Fowler with 18 seconds left within the first to provide the Bruins a 2-1 lead after one interval.
Alex Steeves donne les devants aux Bruins en fin de 1re période! 🚨#GoHabsGo c. #NHLBruins sur RDS 📺 pic.twitter.com/MRE1o3Q9b5
— RDS (@RDSca) December 24, 2025
Only one objective within the second interval, but it surely was a magnificence. Demidov picked Zadorov’s pocket and undressed Jeremy Swayman on a breakaway to tie it up 2-2 after two durations.
Sans mots 😦Speechless#GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/17Ff8gS2U8
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) December 24, 2025
Alexandre Texier was hit alongside the boards by Fraser Minten and suffered an upper-body damage. The crew introduced throughout the intermission his night time was over.
Within the third interval, the Bruins obtained into penalty bother and the Canadiens exploded with 4 objectives in a span of 5:18. First up was Zachary Bolduc coming in to gather on the Suzuki rebound. Bruins coach Marco Sturm challenged that it was goalie interference. He misplaced the problem, placing the Habs up a objective and on the facility play.
Opportuniste!#GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/PUNr1OatMJ
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) December 24, 2025
The Bruins stored getting despatched to the sin bin, permitting the Habs to gather on two straight 5-on-3 alternatives. Caufield scored the primary, whereas Suzuki batted the second out of the air to provide Montreal a commanding 5-2 lead.
DÉGUEUUUXDISGUSTAANG#GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/lWBLdnsdOS
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) December 24, 2025
Saint Nicholas 🎁#GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/YqLjL9s8Rn
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) December 24, 2025
Then it was Slafkovsky’s flip to hitch in on the rout, blasting a one-timer previous Swayman to make it 6-2. The Slovak ahead additionally obtained right into a skirmish with Zadorov within the recreation’s ultimate moments to arrange a storyline for the rematch in January.
Ça s’écrit désormais « 6laf »Spelling his identify like 6laf now#GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/RLFfKgUmYI
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) December 24, 2025
Hutson is on an absolute heater because the Habs hit the vacation break. The defenceman has 13 factors, all assists, in his final eight video games. No defenceman in all the league has tallied extra assists within the calendar 12 months of 2025, together with Cale Makar.
It was additionally the primary time the Canadiens scored 4 objectives within the third interval in a recreation in opposition to Boston since 2010.
The Hockey Stat Playing cards report card exhibits simply how dominant the reigning Calder Trophy winner was in opposition to the B’s.
NHL GameScore Affect Card for Montreal Canadiens on 2025-12-23: pic.twitter.com/EWbMfhfanx
— HockeyStatCards (@hockeystatcards) December 24, 2025
The Canadiens will now get 4 nights off earlier than resuming their street journey on Sunday
(5 p.m., TSN2, RDS)
in opposition to the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Detroit Pink Wings additionally gained Tuesday, which means the Habs stay two factors behind the highest place within the Atlantic Division.
Blissful holidays to the liveblog commenters on our
Hockey Inside Out livestream
. Right here’s what they needed to say on the commanding win for the Canadiens.
