Result: Winnipeg Jets 5-4 Montréal Canadiens (OT)
Montréal led 4-0 with less than three minutes to play and lost. Owen Beck, Josh Anderson and two Cole Caufield power-play goals built the lead. Then Tyrel Bauer and Morgan Barron scored 42 seconds apart, and Kyle Connor added two more in the last minute, the second on a power play. Dylan Samberg won it 3:30 into overtime. Stuart Skinner made 18 saves for Winnipeg’s first win since 13 October. Jacob Fowler faced 47 shots and stopped 42.
Wrong on the side and the puck line. We had Montréal -1.5 and a 4-1 win, and for 57 minutes that looked comfortable. The shot count says it never was. Winnipeg outshot the Canadiens 47-22, and a 4-0 score had flattered Montréal badly. We’d written that the Jets barely score; they hadn’t been short of attempts. We passed on the total, so there’s no bet to grade there. Montréal is 9-3-3.
The preview as published before the game follows.
Montréal has won five in a row. Winnipeg hasn’t won since 13 October. The Jets were beaten 7-0 in Raleigh on Sunday and arrive at the Centre Bell on the last night of a four-game trip. The Canadiens won the Heritage Classic 2-1 nine days ago. Here’s how we see the rematch.
How to watch
| Detail | |
|---|---|
| Game | Winnipeg Jets at Montréal Canadiens |
| Date | Tuesday 3 November 2026 |
| Puck drop | 7:00pm ET |
| Venue | Centre Bell |
| Records | Winnipeg 4-8-3, Montréal 9-3-2 |
Rights differ between the national and regional broadcasts, and blackout rules vary by market. The how to watch the NHL in Canada page lists what you can get where.
Jets vs Canadiens odds
Only TonyBet had posted a Canadian price when this page was built: Montréal −189, Winnipeg +147. One price is a thin read on a game. The fuller board will be on our NHL odds page once the other books open it.
Winnipeg is 0-7-2 in nine and 0-5 since the Hellebuyck trade
The Jets are 4-8-3, 28th, and on a five-game losing run. Since they sent Connor Hellebuyck to New Jersey on 23 October they’ve lost all five, conceding 25 goals.
Thirty-four goals in fifteen games is third-fewest in the league. Kyle Connor has eleven of them, close to a third of the club’s total. Mark Scheifele has two goals and ten assists.
The crease is unsettled. Stuart Skinner is 3-4-3 at .887 and was pulled on Sunday after five goals on seventeen shots. Clay Stevenson finished that game, and Nico Daws started on Friday in Florida, stopping 33 of 37.
Josh Morrissey is out with a wrist injury and listed week to week. Dawson Mercer, one of the players who came back in the Hellebuyck deal, is day to day.
How they compare
| 2025-26 | Winnipeg Jets | Montréal Canadiens |
|---|---|---|
| Record | 35-35-12 | 48-24-10 |
| Points | 82 | 106 |
| Goals for per game | 2.82 | 3.45 |
| Goals against per game | 3.17 | 3.12 |
| Power play | 18.5% | 23.1% |
| Penalty kill | 77.6% | 78.2% |
Montréal finished 24 points clear of Winnipeg last season, with the better power play and two-thirds of a goal a game more in attack. The kills were within a point of each other.
Montréal is fifth, and Fowler has done most of it
The Canadiens are 9-3-2 on twenty points. Four of the five straight wins came on the road, and on Saturday they beat Pittsburgh 5-4 at home, with Josh Anderson scoring twice.
Jacob Fowler is 7-1-0 with a .932 and two shutouts. One of them was a 46-save night in St Louis a week ago. Jakub Dobes, at .853, started the 5-2 win in Dallas.
The power play is the oddity. It converts 9.5 per cent of its chances, last in the league. Nick Suzuki and Mike Matheson are out, Ivan Demidov has been ruled out for two to four weeks, and Kirby Dach missed Monday’s skate with an illness.
The last five meetings averaged five goals
| Date | Result | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct 2026 | Montréal 2-1 | Winnipeg (Heritage Classic) |
| 4 Feb 2026 | Montréal 5-1 | Winnipeg |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Montréal 3-2 (SO) | Montréal |
| 28 Jan 2025 | Winnipeg 4-1 | Montréal |
| 14 Dec 2024 | Winnipeg 4-2 | Winnipeg |
Montréal leads the regular-season series 27 wins to 18 across 45 meetings, and has won the last three.
Those five produced 3, 6, 5, 5 and 6 goals. Three of them stayed under 5.5. The Heritage Classic was 2-0 until 15:24 of the third, when Isak Rosen scored Winnipeg’s only goal.
Team news
| Club | Player | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Winnipeg | Josh Morrissey | Out, wrist, week to week |
| Winnipeg | Dawson Mercer | Day to day, upper body |
| Winnipeg | Vladislav Namestnikov | Out, undisclosed, on injured reserve |
| Winnipeg | Garrett Brown | Out, lower body, on injured reserve |
| Winnipeg | Nick Bjugstad | Out, pectoral, not expected back before January |
| Montréal | Nick Suzuki | Out, upper body |
| Montréal | Mike Matheson | Out, lower body |
| Montréal | Ivan Demidov | Out, lower body, two to four weeks per the club |
| Montréal | Kirby Dach | Day to day, illness, missed Monday’s skate |
| Montréal | Sam Montembeault | Out, lower body, skating again |
| Montréal | Bryce Pickford | Out, undisclosed, on injured reserve |
| Montréal | Lucas Condotta | Out, undisclosed, on injured reserve |
Who starts in goal is an open question. Winnipeg has split between Skinner (10 starts, .887) and Daws (1, .892), and Montréal has split between Fowler (8 starts, .932) and Dobes (6, .853). Clubs rarely confirm a goaltender before the morning skate, so these numbers describe the season, not the night.
Injury news for every other club is on the NHL injury report.
Players to watch
Lane Hutson, Montréal. Thirteen points and a plus-eight, and the opening goal at Princess Auto Stadium.
Kyle Connor, Winnipeg. Eleven goals, five on the power play. Nobody else on the Jets has more than six.
Jacob Fowler, Montréal. He stopped 33 of 34 at the Heritage Classic, the first meeting of the season.
Score prediction
Montréal Canadiens 4-1 Winnipeg Jets. A club on a five-game winning run, at home, against one that has scored eight goals in its last five.
Jets vs Canadiens prediction
Montréal is the side, and it isn’t a close call. Fifth against 28th, Fowler against a club that has used three goaltenders in three games, and a home team rested since Saturday.
The moneyline is short at -189, so the puck line is where the value sits. Winnipeg has lost four of its last five by two goals or more. Our lean: Montréal -1.5 at +130 or better.
We’d leave the total. Montréal’s power play is last in the league and Winnipeg barely scores, but the Jets have also conceded five or more in four of their last five.
Every club is ranked weekly in our NHL power rankings, while the NHL schedule lists the rest of Tuesday’s games.
Puck drop is 7:00pm ET on Tuesday 3 November 2026 at the Centre Bell in Montréal.
Montréal, 2-1 at Princess Auto Stadium on 25 October. Lane Hutson and Kaiden Guhle scored, and Jacob Fowler stopped 33 of 34.
On 13 October, 5-2 at home to Minnesota. The Jets have gone 0-7-2 since.
Not yet. The captain is out with an upper-body injury, and the Canadiens have won five straight without him.
Montréal to win 4-1, with the Canadiens on the puck line.
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