1957-58 Montreal Canadiens Roster and Statistics

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Record: 43-17-10 (96 points), Finished 1st in NHL (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Toe Blake (43-17-10)

Captain: Maurice Richard

Primary Arena: Montreal Forum

1957-58 Stanley Cup Champions

Goals For: 250 (1st of 6), Goals Against: 158 (1st of 6)
SRS: 1.09 (1st of 6), SOS: -0.22 (6th of 6)

Playoffs:
Won Stanley Cup Final (4-2) over Boston Bruins
Won Semi-Finals (4-0) over Detroit Red Wings

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Recent Game Results

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	GF/G	GA/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA	S	S%	SA	SV%	PDO	SO
Montreal Canadiens	70	43	17	10	96	.686	250	158	1.10	-0.22	3.57	2.26	61			38			3	8						10
League Average	70	29	29	11	70	.500	196	196					41			41			7	7		117500.0				6

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5)

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5) Table
Team	S%	SV%	PDO	CF	CA	CF%	xGF	xGA	aGF	aGA	axDiff	SCF	SCA	SCF%	HDF	HDA	HDF%	HDGF	HDC%	HDGA	HDCO%
Montreal Canadiens
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Flag	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date	Summary
8	Gene Achtymichuk	ca	C	25	5-11	170	L/-	2	September 7, 1932	3 G, 5 A, 8 P
25	John Aiken	us	G	26	5-11	165	-/L	R	January 1, 1932	0-1-0, 10.67 GAA
8	Ralph Backstrom	ca	C	20	5-10	165	L/-	1	September 18, 1937	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
8	Murray Balfour	ca	RW	21	5-9	178	R/-	1	August 24, 1936	1 G, 1 A, 2 P
4	Jean Béliveau	ca	C	26	6-3	205	L/-	6	August 31, 1931	27 G, 32 A, 59 P
18	Marcel Bonin	ca	LW	25	5-10	170	L/-	4	September 12, 1932	15 G, 24 A, 39 P
21	Jack Bownass	ca	D	27	6-1	190	L/-	R	July 27, 1930	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
8	Connie Broden	ca	C	25	5-8	160	L/-	1	April 6, 1932	2 G, 1 A, 3 P
1	Len Broderick	ca	G	19	5-11	175	-/L	R	October 11, 1938	1-0-0, 2.00 GAA
8	Billy Carter	ca	C	20	5-11	155	L/-	R	December 2, 1937	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
6	Floyd Curry	ca	RW	32	5-11	174	R/-	9	August 11, 1925	2 G, 3 A, 5 P
5	Bernie Geoffrion	ca	RW	26	5-9	166	R/-	7	February 16, 1931	27 G, 23 A, 50 P
20	Phil Goyette	ca	C	24	5-11	170	L/-	1	October 31, 1933	9 G, 37 A, 46 P
2	Doug Harvey	ca	D	33	5-11	187	L/-	10	December 19, 1924	9 G, 32 A, 41 P
1	Charlie Hodge	ca	G	24	5-6	150	-/L	1	July 28, 1933	8-2-2, 2.58 GAA
10	Tom Johnson	ca	D	29	6-0	180	L/-	8	February 18, 1928	3 G, 18 A, 21 P
8	Claude Laforge	ca	LW	21	5-9	172	L/-	R	July 1, 1936	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
19-21	Albert Langlois	ca	D	23	6-0	205	L/-	R	November 6, 1934	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
22	Don Marshall	ca	C	25	5-10	160	L/-	4	March 23, 1932	22 G, 19 A, 41 P
24	Ab McDonald	ca	LW	21	6-3	192	L/-	R	February 18, 1936	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
12	Dickie Moore	ca	LW	27	5-10	168	L/-	6	January 6, 1931	36 G, 48 A, 84 P
8	Ken Mosdell	ca	RW	35	6-1	170	L/-	14	July 13, 1922	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
15	Bert Olmstead	ca	LW	31	6-1	180	L/-	9	September 4, 1926	9 G, 28 A, 37 P
1	Jacques Plante	ca	G	29	6-0	175	-/L	5	January 17, 1929	34-14-8, 2.11 GAA
23	André Pronovost	ca	LW	21	5-10	188	L/-	1	July 9, 1936	16 G, 12 A, 28 P
14	Claude Provost	ca	RW	24	5-9	168	R/-	2	September 17, 1933	19 G, 32 A, 51 P
16	Henri Richard	ca	C	21	5-7	160	R/-	2	February 29, 1936	28 G, 52 A, 80 P
9	Maurice Richard (C)	ca	RW	36	5-10	170	L/-	15	August 4, 1921	15 G, 19 A, 34 P
8	Stan Smrke	yu	LW	29	5-11	180	L/-	1	September 2, 1928	0 G, 3 A, 3 P
19	Dollard St. Laurent	ca	D	28	5-11	205	L/-	7	May 12, 1929	3 G, 20 A, 23 P
17	Jean-Guy Talbot	ca	D	25	5-11	170	L/-	3	July 11, 1932	4 G, 15 A, 19 P
11	Bob Turner	ca	D	24	6-0	170	L/-	2	January 31, 1934	0 G, 3 A, 3 P

Scoring Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Scoring Regular Season Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists					Ice Time		Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TOI	ATOI	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Dickie Moore*	27	LW	70	36	48	84		65	21	14	1	9	28	20	0					8.3	1.4	9.7
2	Henri Richard*	21	C	67	28	52	80		58	22	6	0	3	38	14	0					7.3	1.3	8.6
3	Jean Béliveau*	26	C	55	27	32	59		93	21	6	0	5	15	17	0					5.7	1.1	6.8
4	Claude Provost	24	RW	70	19	32	51		73	17	2	0	5	30	2	0					3.5	1.4	4.9
5	Bernie Geoffrion*	26	RW	42	27	23	50		51	17	10	0	1	17	6	0					5.5	0.8	6.3
6	Phil Goyette	24	C	70	9	37	46		6	8	1	0	1	33	4	0					2.1	1.4	3.5
7	Don Marshall	25	C	68	22	19	41		14	13	7	2	1	15	4	0					2.9	1.4	4.3
8	Doug Harvey*	33	D	68	9	32	41		131	5	4	0	5	16	15	1					3.6	5.4	9.0
9	Marcel Bonin	25	LW	66	15	24	39		37	14	1	0	3	18	6	0					2.2	1.3	3.5
10	Bert Olmstead*	31	LW	57	9	28	37		69	6	3	0	2	19	9	0					1.8	1.1	2.9
11	Maurice Richard*	36	RW	28	15	19	34		28	10	5	0	2	15	4	0					3.4	0.6	4.0
12	André Pronovost	21	LW	66	16	12	28		53	15	1	0	4	12	0	0					1.2	1.3	2.5
13	Dollard St. Laurent	28	D	64	3	20	23		72	3	0	0	1	20	0	0					1.3	5.1	6.4
14	Tom Johnson*	29	D	66	3	18	21		75	3	0	0	0	10	6	2					1.1	5.3	6.4
15	Jean-Guy Talbot	25	D	55	4	15	19		67	4	0	0	1	12	3	0					1.2	4.4	5.6
16	Gene Achtymichuk	25	C	16	3	5	8		2	3	0	0	0	5	0	0					0.3	0.3	0.6
17	Floyd Curry	32	RW	42	2	3	5		8	2	0	0	0	1	0	2					-1.3	0.8	-0.4
18	Connie Broden	25	C	3	2	1	3		0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0					0.3	0.1	0.4
19	Stan Smrke	29	LW	5	0	3	3		0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0					0.1	0.1	0.2
20	Bob Turner	24	D	66	0	3	3		30	0	0	0	0	3	0	0					-0.9	5.3	4.4
21	Murray Balfour	21	RW	3	1	1	2		4	1	0	0	0	1	0	0					0.2	0.1	0.2
22	Ralph Backstrom	20	C	2	0	1	1		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0					0.0	0.0	0.0
23	Ken Mosdell	35	RW	2	0	1	1		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0					0.0	0.0	0.0
24	John Aiken	26	G	1	0	0	0		0					0					34	33:45	0.0	0.0	-0.4
25	Jack Bownass	27	D	4	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0	0.3	0.3
26	Len Broderick	19	G	1	0	0	0		0					0					60	60:00	0.0	0.0	0.2
27	Billy Carter	20	C	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0	0.0	0.0
28	Charlie Hodge	24	G	12	0	0	0		0					0					720	60:00	0.0	0.0	2.2
29	Claude Laforge	21	LW	5	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					-0.2	0.1	-0.1
30	Albert Langlois	23	D	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0	0.1	0.1
31	Jacques Plante*	29	G	57	0	0	0		13					0					3386	59:24	0.0	0.0	13.2
	Team Total			70	250	429	679		949	186	61	3	43	314	110	5					49.5	40.7	105.6

Goalies Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Goalies Regular Season Table
			Goalie Stats
Rk	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	QS	QS%	RBS	GA%-	GSAA	adjGAA	GPS
1	Jacques Plante*	29	57		34	14	8	119	1561	1442	.924	2.11	9	3386				83	23.6	2.20	13.2
2	Charlie Hodge	24	12		8	2	2	31	348	317	.911	2.58	1	720				97	0.8	2.75	2.2
3	Len Broderick	19	1		1	0	0	2	22	20	.909	2.00	0	60						2.00	0.2
4	John Aiken	26	1		0	1	0	6	18	12	.667	10.67	0	34						12.44	-0.4
	Team Total				43	17	10	158	1949	1791	.919	2.26	10	4200				89	20.1	2.37	15.3