🍁 Away Maple Leafs 32-30-6
1–5
Final
🇨🇦 Home Canadiens 32-27-9
Goals 1st2nd3rdF
🍁 TOR 0101
🇨🇦 MTL 4105

Maple Leafs at Canadiens

Canadiens beat Maple Leafs 5–1 at Bell Centre on March 23, 2006.

🗓 📍 Bell Centre, Montréal 🏒 2005-06 🔁 Maple Leafs lead the season series 4–3
⚔️ Head-to-head

⭐ Three stars

Best games by the box score
1st star 🇨🇦 MTL
Alex Kovalev
1 G, 1 A
6 shots · 18:29 TOI
2nd star 🇨🇦 MTL
Richard Zednik
2 A
3 shots · 16:24 TOI
3rd star 🇨🇦 MTL
Cristobal Huet
33 saves
0.971 SV% · 1 GA

🚨 Scoring

6 goals · in order
1st period
🇨🇦 Chris Higgins Go-ahead 1st · 04:35
Assists: Saku Koivu, Michael Ryder · beat Mikael Tellqvist
0–1
🇨🇦 Mathieu Dandenault 1st · 04:47
Assists: Radek Bonk, Alex Kovalev · beat Mikael Tellqvist
0–2
🇨🇦 Sheldon Souray PP 1st · 09:51
Assists: Mike Ribeiro, Richard Zednik · beat Mikael Tellqvist
0–3
🇨🇦 Alex Kovalev PP 1st · 17:56
Assists: Craig Rivet, Richard Zednik · beat Mikael Tellqvist
0–4
2nd period
🍁 Jeff O'Neill PP 2nd · 05:53
Assists: Kyle Wellwood, Tomas Kaberle · beat Cristobal Huet
1–4
🇨🇦 Alexander Perezhogin 2nd · 11:05
Assists: Tomas Plekanec · beat Mikael Tellqvist
1–5

🧩 Lines & pairings

Estimated from ice time
🍁Maple Leafs
L1 Steen · Sundin · Allison 19:11
L2 Ponikarovsky · Antropov · Tucker 13:39
L3 O'Neill · Stajan · Belak 11:15
L4 Kilger · Ondrus · Suglobov 10:06
L5 Wellwood 9:39
D1 McCabe · Kaberle 29:00
D2 Richardson · Berg 18:26
D3 Khavanov 14:02
🇨🇦Canadiens
L1 Ribeiro · Kovalev · Ryder 18:18
L2 Higgins · Koivu · Zednik 16:26
L3 Begin · Bonk · Dandenault 14:32
L4 Murray · Plekanec · Perezhogin 12:13
D1 Rivet · Souray 21:08
D2 Markov · Komisarek 18:15
D3 Simpson · Streit 13:22

📊 Team stats

Away left · home right
🍁TOR MTL🇨🇦
34 Shots on goal 30
1/6 Power play (goals / chances) 2/7
33 Hits 30
10 Blocked shots 19
26 Takeaways 15
13 Giveaways 10
19 Penalty minutes 17
TOR shooting 2.9% (1/34) MTL shooting 16.7% (5/30)

🥅 Goaltending

Saves, shots faced and save percentage
🍁Maple Leafs
Mikael Tellqvist
25/30
.833 SV% · 5 GA · 59:52 TOI
🇨🇦Canadiens
Cristobal Huet
33/34
.971 SV% · 1 GA · 59:51 TOI

🔮 Period by period

AI
After 1st — 0–4
Maple Leafs
Maple Leafs: no games found in this situation this year.
Canadiens
Canadiens — leading by 4 goals after 1st: 1-0 (100% win rate, 1 game)
After 2nd — 1–5
Maple Leafs
Maple Leafs — trailing by 4 goals after 2nd: 0-2 (0% win rate, 2 games)
Canadiens
Canadiens: no games found in this situation this year.

⚔️ Last meetings

All →
Maple Leafs lead the season series 4–3
Mar 72006 🇨🇦MTL @ 🍁TOR 3–5 Jan 282006 🇨🇦MTL @ 🍁TOR 4–3 OT Nov 262005 🇨🇦MTL @ 🍁TOR 3–4 OT Nov 122005 🍁TOR @ 🇨🇦MTL 5–4 OT Oct 152005 🍁TOR @ 🇨🇦MTL 3–2
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Who won Maple Leafs vs Canadiens on March 23, 2006?

Canadiens won 5–1. The final score was Maple Leafs 1, Canadiens 5.

Who scored for Maple Leafs?

Jeff O'Neill.

Who scored for Canadiens?

Alex Kovalev, Alexander Perezhogin, Chris Higgins, Mathieu Dandenault, Sheldon Souray.

How did the Maple Leafs goalie play?

Mikael Tellqvist made 25 saves on 30 shots (.833 save percentage).

How did the Canadiens goalie play?

Cristobal Huet made 33 saves on 34 shots (.971 save percentage).

Where is Maple Leafs vs Canadiens played?

At Bell Centre in Montréal, the Canadiens home rink.

What is the Maple Leafs vs Canadiens season series?

Maple Leafs lead the season series 4–3 after 7 games.

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🧭 Around this game

Before and after, for both teams
🍁 Maple Leafs
BeforeMar 21 🌪️CAR @ 🍁TOR 2–3 AfterMar 25 🍁TOR @ 🇨🇦MTL 2–6
🇨🇦 Canadiens
BeforeMar 21 🇨🇦MTL @ 🏝️NYI 1–3 AfterMar 25 🍁TOR @ 🇨🇦MTL 2–6
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