The Montreal Canadiens play one more game before the holiday break against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night at TD Garden.
Published Dec 23, 2025
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The Montreal Canadiens (19-12-5) play one more game before the holiday break against the Boston Bruins (20-16-1) on Tuesday night at TD Garden.
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Puck drop at 7 p.m. (RDS, TSN2, TSN Radio 690, 98.5 FM).
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Here’s what you need to know:
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- Jacob Fowler is expected to start in goal. He spent two years at Boston College.
- Phillip Danault should also be in the lineup for the first time since being re-acquired by the Habs. He skated on a line with Josh Anderson and Alexandre Texier in practice.
- Heading into the final day before the holiday break, the Habs are two points behind the Detroit Red Wings for top spot in the Atlantic Division. The Wings play the Stars tonight.
- The Habs resume their season on Dec. 28 in Tampa Bay.
- How and where to watch the Canadiens on TV for 2025-26 season.
- Blacked out on TSN2 or RDS? Here’s how to watch Canadiens games from Ontario and Western Canada.
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Follow this page for updates and game highlights. Keep the conversation going over on our Hockey Inside Out YouTube channel livestream.
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Right off the opening draw, Josh Anderson and Tanner Jeannot dropped the gloves for a spirited scrap.
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Still in the first period, Arber Xhekaj also got into a fight, trading blows with Bruins defenceman Nikita Zadorov.
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Sammy Blais scored his first as a Hab from a Caufieldian angle below the goal line.
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Just 1:17 later, Marat Khusnutdinov tied it up off a Mike Matheson turnover. 1-1.
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With 20 seconds left in the first period, Alex Steeves beat Fowler with a snipe on the power play to give the home team a lead after 20 minutes.
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In the second period, Ivan Demidov tied up the game with a highlight reel breakaway goal. It’s his ninth of the season. Alexandre Texier left the game with an upper-body injury after getting hit by Fraser Minten and will not return tonight.
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The Habs took the lead in the third period, with Zachary Bolduc scoring his 10th of the season. It started a sequence of four goals in 5:18 for Montreal.
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Then Boston got into penalty trouble. Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki responded with power play goals at 5-on-3.
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And then Juraj Slafkovsky gave Habs fans another Christmas gift with a one-timer goal.
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