Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens played out a 0:0 draw in their NHL meeting on 2026-09-19. The match took place at the home rink, though neither side could find the net. It was the opening fixture for both clubs this season.
The standings tell a simple story. Both teams sit with zero games, zero wins, zero draws, zero losses, and zero points. The table is empty because the campaign has just begun, and there is nothing yet to rank.
Recent history offers a different picture. Montreal came off five matches against Carolina Hurricanes, losing four and winning once. Toronto's last five games against Ottawa, Dallas, Florida, New York Islanders, and Washington brought mixed results with no clean sheets.
We had backed the visitors with 46 per cent confidence. The prediction did not materialise. By then you expect an away side to press harder, but neither team carved the other open or looked like they were going to break through.
A scoreless result in such a rivalry suggests something about the goaltending or the defensive shape. To be fair, without more detail we cannot say which, only that both sides defended their territory and neither committed to a final attack.
The standings remain unchanged. Both teams move to one game played, still level on points. There is no value left in early predictions when the season has barely started.
