Montreal Canadiens (33-17-9, in the Atlantic Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (29-25-4, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
San Jose, California; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Montreal Canadiens visit the San Jose Sharks after Cole Caufield\u2019s two-goal game against the Washington Capitals in the Canadiens\u2019 6-2 win.<\/p>\n
San Jose has a 29-25-4 record overall and a 16-10-3 record on its home ice. The Sharks have gone 15-5-3 in games decided by one goal.<\/p>\n
Montreal has gone 16-6-7 on the road and 33-17-9 overall. The Canadiens rank third in NHL play with 206 total goals (averaging 3.5 per game).<\/p>\n
The matchup Tuesday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kiefer Sherwood has scored 17 goals with six assists for the Sharks. Macklin Celebrini has five goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Caufield has 35 goals and 25 assists for the Canadiens. Nicholas Suzuki has scored four goals with 10 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sharks: 4-5-1, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.7 assists, 3.6 penalties and 8.3 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: 6-2-2, averaging four goals, 6.7 assists, 3.7 penalties and 7.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sharks: None listed.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens (33-17-9, in the Atlantic Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (29-25-4, in the Pacific Division) San Jose,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5127],"tags":[2617,971,37676,5,6386,21,4,292,46703,519,168,5306,5305,1780,43,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-480605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-cole-caufield","10":"tag-data-skrive","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-kiefer-sherwood","13":"tag-montreal-canadiens","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-hockey","16":"tag-nicholas-suzuki","17":"tag-san-jose","18":"tag-san-jose-sharks","19":"tag-sanjose","20":"tag-sanjosesharks","21":"tag-sharks","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-washington-capitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116159030633799771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}