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First round, Game 6 · Series tied 3–3 · 2026-05-01 · Centre Bell

1 – 0Final/OT

TBL beat MTL 1–0 in overtime. TBL also won the expected-goals battle 4.7 to 4.0: the better chances went the right way. The biggest swing: Gage Goncalves scored at 9:03 of overtime, moving TBL’s win probability from 48% to 100%. Andrei Vasilevskiy saved 4.1 goals above expected.

Shots on goal
33 – 30
Expected goals
4.7 – 4.0
xG share
TBL 54%
Home-ice start
MTL 53%

Win probability

The site’s win-probability model, second by second: score, time left and the manpower on the ice. Dots are goals; hover for the swing.

TBL goalMTL goal

Expected goals

Running total of each team’s shot quality (unblocked attempts). Dots are goals.

TBLMTL

Three stars, by the model

Net goals added in this game versus a league-average player: on-ice goal share, finishing, drawn and taken penalties, faceoffs; goalies by goals saved above expected.

TBL
69:03 TOI
GSAx +3.86
+4.05
MTL
69:03 TOI
GSAx +2.70
+2.70
TBL
Gage Goncalves
1 G, 0 A · 15:26 TOI
Finishing +0.62
+0.58

Rough nights

MTL
0 G, 0 A · 17:05 TOI
On-ice −0.21 · Finishing −0.34 · Penalties −0.19
−0.75
MTL
0 G, 0 A · 18:53 TOI
On-ice −0.42 · Finishing −0.30
−0.72
MTL
Ivan Demidov
0 G, 0 A · 17:38 TOI
On-ice +0.25 · Finishing −0.76 · Penalties −0.19
−0.70

Scoring

Win probability of the scoring team just before and after each goal.

TimeTeamGoalTBL–MTLWin prob.
OT 9:03 TBLGage Goncalves
from Dominic James, Brandon Hagel
1–048% → 100%

Every player

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TBL

SkaterTOIGANet goalsOn-iceFinishingPenaltiesFaceoffs
Gage Goncalves C15:261+0.58−0.03+0.62+0.00−0.01
Brayden Point C17:21+0.26+0.51−0.26+0.00+0.01
Brandon Hagel L29:051+0.20+0.57−0.37+0.00+0.00
Emil Lilleberg D16:26+0.15+0.15+0.00+0.00+0.00
Corey Perry R9:43+0.14+0.14+0.00+0.00+0.00
J.J. Moser D25:34+0.13+0.11−0.18+0.19+0.00
Darren Raddysh D28:11+0.10+0.53−0.44+0.00+0.00
Jake Guentzel C20:55+0.06+0.55−0.44+0.00−0.04
Oliver Bjorkstrand R12:24+0.00+0.00+0.00+0.00+0.00
Anthony Cirelli C23:11−0.01−0.03+0.00+0.00+0.02
Nick Paul L12:25−0.06−0.07+0.00+0.00+0.01
Zemgus Girgensons C12:44−0.09−0.09+0.00+0.00+0.00
Dominic James C13:361−0.10+0.06−0.17+0.00+0.01
Erik Cernak D23:10−0.21−0.16−0.05+0.00+0.00
Ryan McDonagh D21:52−0.25−0.25+0.00+0.00+0.00
Charle-Edouard D'Astous D18:29−0.33+0.12−0.25−0.19+0.00
Yanni Gourde C13:53−0.34−0.12−0.20+0.00−0.01
Nikita Kucherov R22:50−0.46+0.53−0.80−0.19+0.00
GoalieTOIGSAx (net goals)
Andrei Vasilevskiy G69:03+4.05

MTL

SkaterTOIGANet goalsOn-iceFinishingPenaltiesFaceoffs
Nick Suzuki C24:55+0.24+0.21+0.00+0.00+0.03
Juraj Slafkovský L22:31+0.09+0.35−0.24+0.00−0.01
Lane Hutson D30:46+0.06+0.28−0.22+0.00+0.00
Alexandre Carrier D24:29+0.05−0.15+0.00+0.19+0.00
Brendan Gallagher R5:39−0.01−0.01+0.00+0.00+0.00
Cole Caufield R19:41−0.13+0.29−0.42+0.00+0.00
Jayden Struble D12:53−0.17−0.17+0.00+0.00+0.00
Jake Evans C16:08−0.24+0.05−0.30+0.00+0.01
Kirby Dach C12:09−0.35−0.23−0.12+0.00+0.00
Kaiden Guhle D24:14−0.39−0.28−0.11+0.00+0.00
Arber Xhekaj D11:46−0.41−0.34−0.06+0.00+0.00
Alex Newhook C14:31−0.43−0.19−0.22+0.00−0.02
Phillip Danault C19:31−0.43−0.55−0.08+0.19+0.01
Mike Matheson D28:47−0.51−0.51+0.00+0.00+0.00
Zachary Bolduc R15:39−0.66−0.34−0.31+0.00−0.01
Ivan Demidov R17:38−0.70+0.25−0.76−0.19+0.00
Josh Anderson R18:53−0.72−0.42−0.30+0.00+0.00
Alexandre Texier L17:05−0.75−0.21−0.34−0.19+0.00
GoalieTOIGSAx (net goals)
Jakub Dobes G69:03+2.70

Playoff recaps: the playoff ledgers have no per-game split of playmaking and suppression, so those credits stay inside the on-ice and finishing columns.

Net goals for one game are noisy: a single goal against on the ice or a lucky finish moves them a lot. See the card guide and Net Goals 101 for how they are built.