On October 9, 2026, the NHL’s official highlights caught the Nashville Predators and Montreal Canadiens in a game that spent two periods as a lesson in control and one period dismantling it. Watch the official highlights below.
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The editorial summary of this one can be written in the shot totals: Montreal outshot Nashville 34-18, built a 2-0 lead through Nick Suzuki and Alex Newhook, and still lost 5-2. Games like this are goaltending stories wearing a comeback’s clothes. Juuse Saros’s 32 saves held the deficit at two while Nashville’s skaters searched for their legs, and once Alexander Kerfoot and Matthew Wood broke through, the game’s physics inverted — Ryan O’Reilly’s go-ahead goal with 3:16 remaining, then two Adam Edström empty-netters as Montreal’s desperation became arithmetic.
For the Canadiens, now winless in three, the highlights will be studied as a warning about the difference between dominating a game and closing one: territory without finish is a loan the scoreboard eventually calls in. For Nashville, it is the opposite lesson — a road win stolen on shot share and banked for the nights the territorial game deserts them entirely.
Highlights versus evidence
The package shows the goals; the coaches’ cut will show the twenty minutes Montreal spent strangling the neutral zone before letting go. Both are true, and the gap between them is the story of Montreal’s young season. NewsWibe’s Sports & Entertainment Desk will watch whether the Canadiens’ skid forces changes, and whether Nashville’s finishing travels.
There is a version of this game Montreal wins nine times in ten, and the Canadiens know it, which is precisely why it will bother them. Contenders are not built by dominating the games they lose; they are built by refusing to lose them, and the lesson lands harder in October than it would in March.
