Montreal Canadiens won2vs.Winnipeg Jets1

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Oct 23 forecast

NO: Q 54.3¢ · Market odds 46¢ at forecast

Suzuki absence. Montreal plays without captain Nick Suzuki, who had 12 points in nine games.

Main caution: Winnipeg has lost four of the last five games and is missing Josh Morrissey.

Evidence and updates

Goaltending. Winnipeg goaltender Stuart Skinner has been steadier with a .912 save percentage.

Goals against. Montreal ranks 29th in the league in goals against per game at 3.78.

Q rises; odds steady. Q +3.7¢; odds −1.0¢ since the previous forecast, for NO.

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Snapshot: 2026-10-23T23:44:11.588941+00:00 · Quote: price_observations · 2026-10-23T22:58:07.792132+00:00.

Ask Q: Will Nick Suzuki travel to Winnipeg and be cleared to play Sunday, and which goaltender starts for Montreal in the Heritage Classic?

Suzuki absence

The Canadiens announced Suzuki will be sidelined 2-4 weeks with an upper-body injury; he had 12 points (five goals, seven assists) in nine games

Goaltending

Stuart Skinner has made seven starts for Winnipeg with a .912 save percentage.

Goals against

Canadiens are 29th in the league in goals against per game at 3.78 in 2026-27.

Main caution

Jets defenceman Josh Morrissey is out until around 1 November with a wrist injury.
Winnipeg has lost four of its last five games, three of them by a single goal.

Points to NO

Montreal captain Nick Suzuki is out two to four weeks with an upper-body injury, removing the Canadiens' leading point producer and their most-used centre from the lineup.
The Canadiens announced on 22 October that Suzuki would miss two to four weeks with an upper-body injury after posting 12 points in nine games.
Montreal is also without Ivan Demidov until at least 31 October and has Samuel Montembeault on injured reserve, thinning both the forward group and the goaltending depth.
NHL.com's projected Montreal lineup on 23 October listed Suzuki, Montembeault, Demidov and Florian Xhekaj as unavailable, with Mike Matheson returning after four games out.
Montreal's goaltending has been the weaker side of this matchup, with Jakub Dobes at .847 and Jacob Fowler at .900 against Stuart Skinner's .912 for Winnipeg.
Through 23 October Skinner had seven starts at .912 for Winnipeg, while Dobes sat at .847 with a 4.47 goals-against average and Fowler at .900.

Points to YES

Winnipeg arrives missing top defenceman Josh Morrissey and forward Vladislav Namestnikov, and the Jets have lost four of their last five games.
Winnipeg placed Morrissey on injured reserve on 19 October with a wrist injury expected to keep the defenceman out until around 1 November, and has since lost four of five.
Montreal has won three of the last five meetings with Winnipeg and none of those games produced more than six goals, a pattern that suits a tight outdoor contest.
Montreal leads the all-time series 26 wins to 18 and has taken three of the last five meetings, the last five all finishing with six goals or fewer.

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