Penguins vs Canadiens Prediction, Player Props & Odds (Oct 31, 2026)

Pittsburgh Penguins logo

Penguins5-8 · 7-6 ATS14th in the East
FINAL4 – 5
Montreal Canadiens logo

Canadiens8-5 · 5-8 ATS3rd in the East

NHL · Saturday, October 31, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Bell Centre

Final score by period

Team 1 2 3 T
Penguins 2 1 1 4
Canadiens 2 3 0 5

How the bets settled

MoneylineCanadiens wonClosed at -120
SpreadPenguins coveredPenguins +1.5, by 0.5
TotalOver 6.59 scored, 2.5 over

Closing line, DraftKings.

Game review

The Canadiens beat the Penguins 5-4, with the game swinging in the second period. Montreal scored three times in the middle frame to Pittsburgh’s one, turning a 2-2 first into a two-goal lead after two, and the Penguins could only pull one back in the third.

Josh Anderson led Montreal with two goals and three points, while Lane Hutson added two assists. Sidney Crosby had a goal and two assists for Pittsburgh. Montreal’s 22 blocked shots, 22 hits and 57.1 percent faceoff success helped it protect the lead. Pittsburgh converted one of three power plays at 33.3 percent, while Montreal went 0 for 3.

For bettors, Pittsburgh covered the 1.5-goal spread by 0.5 as the Canadiens won by one. The game went over the 6.5 total by 2.5.

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Against the spread, start to finish

CanadiensPenguins
The score margin against the closing spread (Canadiens -1.5). Blue: Canadiens covering. Orange: Penguins covering.
+2.5Largest PIT cover
58%PIT covering
+0.5Largest MTL cover
42%MTL covering

Top performers

Penguins

  • GoalsSidney Crosby1
  • AssistsSidney Crosby2
  • PointsSidney Crosby3

Canadiens

  • GoalsJosh Anderson2
  • AssistsLane Hutson2
  • PointsJosh Anderson3

Team stats

PenguinsCanadiens
29Shots27
42.9%Faceoffs won57.1%
1Power play goals0
13Hits22
9Blocked shots22
4Takeaways5
17Giveaways14
13Penalty minutes13

Box score

Pittsburgh Penguins

Forwards

Player G A SOG S +/- TOI SHFT HT BS TK GV PIM FO%
Egor Chinakhov RW 0 0 0 2 -2 14:22 18 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sidney Crosby C 1 2 0 2 3 20:23 25 0 0 0 0 2 54.5
Connor Dewar C 0 0 0 0 -1 12:30 17 1 1 1 1 0 0.0
Ben Kindel C 0 0 0 3 -1 16:48 21 1 2 0 0 0 25.0
Ville Koivunen RW 0 0 0 0 -2 13:16 15 0 2 0 0 2 0.0
Andrei Kuzmenko LW 0 0 0 1 -2 10:00 13 1 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hendrix Lapierre C 0 0 0 0 -2 10:34 14 1 0 0 1 0 33.3
Blake Lizotte C 0 0 0 0 -1 12:55 16 3 0 0 0 5 42.9
Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 1 -1 17:54 21 0 0 0 1 2 0.0
Tommy Novak C 1 1 0 3 2 17:58 23 0 0 2 3 0 100.0
Rickard Rakell RW 1 1 0 2 3 21:58 28 1 0 0 2 0 0.0
Nick Robertson LW 0 0 0 0 -1 9:59 14 0 1 0 1 0 0.0

Defenses

Player G A SOG S +/- TOI SHFT HT BS TK GV PIM FO%
Declan Carlile D 0 0 0 1 -3 18:44 17 0 1 0 0 0 0.0
Samuel Girard D 0 0 0 2 -1 21:01 25 1 0 0 0 0 0.0
Erik Karlsson D 1 2 0 4 1 23:37 24 0 0 1 3 0 0.0
Kaedan Korczak D 0 0 0 1 -1 18:21 23 3 1 0 1 2 0.0
Kris Letang D 0 0 0 2 -1 18:44 23 1 1 0 0 0 0.0
Spencer Stastney D 0 0 0 5 1 15:16 19 0 0 0 2 0 0.0

Goalies

Player GA SA SOS SOSA SV SV% ESSV PPSV SHSV TOI YTDG PIM
Sergei Murashov G 5 27 0 0 22 .815 17 4 1 57:40 0 0

Montreal Canadiens

Forwards

Player G A SOG S +/- TOI SHFT HT BS TK GV PIM FO%
Josh Anderson RW 2 1 0 2 3 14:58 18 1 1 0 0 0 0.0
Owen Beck C 0 1 0 1 1 8:51 10 3 1 0 0 5 100.0
Zack Bolduc RW 0 0 0 2 -1 16:36 17 1 0 0 0 0 0.0
Cole Caufield RW 0 0 0 2 -2 18:56 19 1 0 1 1 0 0.0
Phillip Danault C 0 1 0 1 -1 19:57 21 2 1 1 2 0 53.8
Jake Evans C 0 1 0 1 4 17:40 20 3 0 1 0 0 68.8
Oliver Kapanen C 1 0 0 2 1 11:04 14 0 2 0 0 2 14.3
Chris Kreider LW 1 1 0 5 4 12:10 15 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Alex Newhook C 0 0 0 0 -2 18:54 21 0 1 0 2 0 60.0
Juraj Slafkovsky LW 0 0 0 2 -2 17:23 18 0 2 0 1 0 100.0
Alexandre Texier LW 1 0 0 3 0 14:32 17 0 0 0 2 0 0.0
Florian Xhekaj LW 0 1 0 0 1 7:34 11 2 2 0 1 4 50.0

Defenses

Player G A SOG S +/- TOI SHFT HT BS TK GV PIM FO%
Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 1 -2 21:19 28 1 2 0 2 0 0.0
Noah Dobson D 0 0 0 1 2 20:49 26 0 1 0 1 2 0.0
Adam Engstrom D 0 0 0 2 1 10:58 13 0 1 0 0 0 0.0
Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 1 -2 24:05 27 5 3 2 0 0 0.0
Lane Hutson D 0 2 0 1 4 23:47 25 1 4 0 0 0 0.0
Arber Xhekaj D 0 1 0 0 1 13:40 14 2 1 0 1 0 0.0

Goalies

Player GA SA SOS SOSA SV SV% ESSV PPSV SHSV TOI YTDG PIM
Jacob Fowler G 4 29 0 0 25 .862 23 1 1 60:00 0 0

Attendance 20,962 · Officials: Kendrick Nicholson, Pierre Lambert, Andrew Smith, Jeremy Faucher

Recap: Canadiens beat the Penguins 5-4 for their 5th straight victory (ESPN)

Highlights

Play-by-play on ESPN

StatsBench picks

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Betting trends

From each team’s last 10 games and recent meetings, against the closing line.

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Penguins vs Canadiens pre-game preview

The Canadiens are the -150 moneyline favorite, -1.5 on the spread, and the total is 6.5 after opening there. The last meeting was Oct. 3, a 6-5 Pittsburgh home win; over the last 10 head-to-heads Pittsburgh is 8-2 but 2-5 ATS. Pittsburgh is 5-8 and 7-6 ATS this season, with a 3-7 last-10 record and 5-5 ATS mark after a 4-3 loss to Utah. Montreal is 8-5 and 5-8 ATS, 7-3 in its last 10 and 4-6 ATS after a 5-2 win at Dallas.

The defensive ranks are the clearest split: Montreal allows 2.92 goals per game (9th) and Pittsburgh 3.31 (23rd), while Pittsburgh’s power-play points allowed rate is 1.15 (6th) against Montreal’s 2.08 (20th). Montreal lists Nick Suzuki out, Ivan Demidov on IR and Mike Matheson day-to-day; Pittsburgh has Bryan Rust and Ryan Graves on IR. Ben Kindel’s over 1.5 shots at -178 has cleared in 9 of 10, and Erik Karlsson’s over 0.5 points at -142 has cleared 7 of 10 with a StatsBench projection of 0.7.

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Player stats and form

Season averages and each player’s last 5 games, newest first. Splits: per-game averages (games in brackets); vs the opponent covers this season and last, newest game first.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Erik Karlsson D1.0 PTS · 1.6 SOG · 0.2 G per game
Date Opp TOI G A SOG HIT
10/29 vs UTA 21:33 1 0 1 0
10/24 vs NSH 26:12 0 1 2 1
10/22 vs FLA 24:09 0 0 3 0
10/19 @ UTA 27:40 1 1 1 0
10/17 @ VGK 21:56 0 1 1 0
Splits Season Road 2025-26 vs MTL
PTS 1.0 (13) 1.1 (7) 0.9 (81) 1.0 (4)
2 · 1 · 0 · 1
SOG 1.6 (13) 1.7 (7) 2.3 (81) 2.0 (4)
0 · 1 · 2 · 5

Evgeni Malkin C0.9 PTS · 2.2 SOG · 0.5 G per game
Date Opp TOI G A SOG HIT
10/29 vs UTA 16:23 0 2 4 1
10/22 vs FLA 12:54 1 1 1 0
10/19 @ UTA 16:34 0 0 1 0
10/17 @ VGK 12:51 1 0 2 1
10/16 @ COL 17:01 1 0 2 0
Splits Season Road 2025-26 vs MTL
PTS 0.9 (12) 0.6 (7) 1.0 (62) 3.0 (1)
3
SOG 2.2 (12) 2.0 (7) 2.5 (62) 1.0 (1)
1

Bryan Rust R0.7 PTS · 1.3 SOG · 0.4 G per game
Date Opp TOI G A SOG HIT
10/19 @ UTA 09:32 0 2 0 1
10/17 @ VGK 19:02 0 0 1 1
10/16 @ COL 18:38 1 0 2 2
10/13 @ CHI 15:58 0 0 1 2
10/10 vs DAL 20:55 0 0 0 1
Splits Season Road 2025-26 vs MTL
PTS 0.7 (7) 0.8 (6) 0.9 (78) 1.0 (3)
1 · 0 · 2
SOG 1.3 (7) 1.5 (6) 2.5 (78) 3.3 (3)
2 · 3 · 5

Montreal Canadiens

Nick Suzuki C1.3 PTS · 2.9 SOG · 0.6 G per game
Date Opp TOI G A SOG HIT
10/20 vs SJS 21:03 1 1 4 0
10/17 vs BUF 20:49 0 1 2 3
10/14 @ WSH 20:15 1 0 3 1
10/13 vs BUF 23:32 0 1 5 1
10/10 vs DET 26:06 0 0 3 1
Splits Season Home 2025-26 vs PIT
PTS 1.3 (9) 1.2 (6) 1.2 (101) 1.5 (4)
4 · 0 · 1 · 1
SOG 2.9 (9) 2.8 (6) 2.2 (101) 2.8 (4)
4 · 1 · 2 · 4

Ivan Demidov R1.0 PTS · 2.0 SOG · 0.5 G per game
Date Opp TOI G A SOG HIT
10/3 @ PIT 16:03 1 1 3 1
9/29 @ TOR 15:11 0 0 1 2
Splits Season Home 2025-26 vs PIT
PTS 1.0 (2) – 0.7 (101) 1.3 (4)
2 · 2 · 0 · 1
SOG 2.0 (2) – 1.6 (101) 1.3 (4)
3 · 2 · 0 · 0

Cole Caufield R0.9 PTS · 3.2 SOG · 0.6 G per game
Date Opp TOI G A SOG HIT
10/29 @ DAL 18:21 2 0 3 0
10/27 @ STL 16:21 0 0 3 1
10/25 @ WPG 15:50 0 2 0 1
10/23 @ CHI 16:11 0 0 4 1
10/20 vs SJS 19:36 1 1 3 0
Splits Season Home 2025-26 vs PIT
PTS 0.9 (13) 1.0 (6) 1.0 (100) 1.0 (4)
2 · 0 · 1 · 1
SOG 3.2 (13) 4.3 (6) 3.0 (100) 2.0 (4)
3 · 0 · 1 · 4

Records

Team Record ATS O/U Home Away
Penguins 5-8 7-6 8-5 4-2 1-6
Canadiens 8-5 5-8 8-5 3-3 5-2

This season, regular season. ATS and O/U against each game’s closing line.

Penguins vs Canadiens head-to-head

Penguins are 8-2, 2-5 ATS, O/U 3-4 in the last 10 meetings. Last time: Penguins won 6-5 on October 3, 2026.

Date Venue Penguins result ATS O/U
Oct 3, 26 Penguins home W 6-5 W +1.5 O 6.5
Dec 21, 25 Penguins home W 4-3 L -1.5 O 6.5
Dec 20, 25 Canadiens home L 0-4 L +1.5 U 6.5
Dec 11, 25 Penguins home L 2-4 L -1.5 U 6.5
Dec 12, 24 Canadiens home W 9-2 – –
Nov 2, 24 Penguins home W 3-1 – –
Oct 14, 24 Canadiens home W 6-3 – –
Feb 22, 24 Penguins home W 4-1 W -1.5 U 5.5
Jan 27, 24 Penguins home W 3-2 L -1.5 U 5.5
Dec 13, 23 Canadiens home W 4-3 L -1.5 O 5.5

Recent form

Pittsburgh Penguins: last 10 (3-7, 5-5 ATS, O/U 6-4)

Date Opponent Result ATS O/U
Oct 29, 26 vs UTA L 3-4 W +1.5 O 6.5
Oct 24, 26 vs NSH W 3-2 L -1.5 U 6.5
Oct 22, 26 vs FLA W 4-0 W -1.5 U 6.5
Oct 19, 26 @ UTA L 4-5 W +1.5 O 6.5
Oct 17, 26 @ VGK L 2-6 L +1.5 O 6.5
Oct 16, 26 @ COL L 2-5 L +1.5 O 6.5
Oct 13, 26 @ CHI L 3-5 L -1.5 O 6.5
Oct 10, 26 vs DAL W 2-1 W +1.5 U 6.5
Oct 9, 26 @ CBJ L 2-3 W +1.5 U 6.5
Oct 7, 26 @ WSH L 3-5 L +1.5 O 6.5

Montreal Canadiens: last 10 (7-3, 4-6 ATS, O/U 6-4)

Date Opponent Result ATS O/U
Oct 29, 26 @ DAL W 5-2 W +1.5 O 5.5
Oct 27, 26 @ STL W 2-0 W -1.5 U 6.5
Oct 25, 26 @ WPG W 2-1 L -1.5 U 5.5
Oct 23, 26 @ CHI W 4-1 W -1.5 U 6.5
Oct 20, 26 vs SJ L 3-4 L -1.5 O 6.5
Oct 17, 26 vs BUF W 4-3 L -1.5 O 6.5
Oct 14, 26 @ WSH L 4-5 W +1.5 O 6.5
Oct 13, 26 vs BUF W 4-3 L -1.5 O 6.5
Oct 10, 26 vs DET W 1-0 L -1.5 U 6.5
Oct 8, 26 vs NSH L 2-5 L -1.5 O 6.5

Injury report

Pittsburgh Penguins

  • Trevor van Riemsdyk (D): Injured Reserve, Lower Body
  • Justin Brazeau (R): Out, Lower Body
  • Elmer Soderblom (L): Injured Reserve, Upper Body
  • Bryan Rust (R): Injured Reserve, Rust
  • Ryan Graves (D): Injured Reserve, Graves

Montreal Canadiens

  • Ivan Demidov (R): Injured Reserve, Demidov
  • Mike Matheson (D): Out, Matheson
  • Kirby Dach (C): Out, Illness
  • Nick Suzuki (C): Out, Upper Body

Matchup ranks

What each defense allows per game this season. Rank 1 allows the fewest, so a high number means a softer matchup for the other team’s overs.

Penguins defense Canadiens defense
Goals allowed per game 3.43 (24th of 32) 3 (12th of 32)
Shots on goal allowed per game 27.71 (19th of 32) 27.57 (17th of 32)
Points allowed per game 9.14 (22nd of 32) 8.07 (11th of 32)
Power-play points allowed per game 1.07 (5th of 32) 2.14 (21st of 32)
Pace (possessions) 55.9 (10th) 55 (15th)

Venue and weather

Bell Centre · Montreal, QCIndoor, weather won’t matter
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Penguins vs Canadiens odds

Line movement from the open

Line Open Close Move
Canadiens spread -1.5 -1.5 –
Total 6.5 6.5 –
Penguins moneyline +124 +100 +5.4% win chance
Canadiens moneyline -148 -120 -5.1% win chance

DraftKings opening and closing numbers via ESPN.

Line movement chart

Canadiens spread -1.5 → -1.5
Total 6.5 → 6.5
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