1979-80 Montreal Canadiens Roster and Statistics

Record: 47-20-13 (107 points), Finished 1st in NHL Norris Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Bernie Geoffrion (15-9-6), Claude Ruel (32-11-7)

Goals For: 328 (1st of 21), Goals Against: 240 (3rd of 21)
SRS: 1.05 (2nd of 21), SOS: -0.05 (20th of 21)

Playoffs:
Lost Quarter-Finals (4-3) to Minnesota North Stars
Won Preliminary Round (3-0) over Hartford Whalers

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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	80	47	20	13	107	.669	328	240	1.05	-0.05	4.10	3.00	77	264	29.17	46	247	81.38	2	6	2531	13.0	2215	.892		3
League Average	80	33	33	14	80	.500	281	281					61	280	21.83	61	280	78.17	6	6	2352	12.0	2352	.880		3

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
12	Keith Acton	ca	C	21	5-8	170	L/-	R	April 15, 1958	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
27	Rick Chartraw	ve	D	25	6-2	210	R/-	5	July 13, 1954	5 G, 7 A, 12 P
26	Norm Dupont	ca	LW	22	5-10	185	L/-	R	February 5, 1957	1 G, 3 A, 4 P
3	Brian Engblom	ca	D	25	6-2	200	L/-	2	January 27, 1955	3 G, 20 A, 23 P
23	Bob Gainey	ca	LW	26	6-2	200	L/-	6	December 13, 1953	14 G, 19 A, 33 P
20	Danny Geoffrion	ca	RW	22	5-10	185	R/-	R	January 24, 1958	0 G, 6 A, 6 P
2	Gaston Gingras	ca	D	20	6-1	200	L/-	R	February 13, 1959	3 G, 7 A, 10 P
32	Denis Herron	ca	G	27	5-11	165	-/L	7	June 18, 1952	25-3-3, 2.52 GAA
15	Réjean Houle	ca	LW	30	5-11	170	L/-	7	October 25, 1949	18 G, 27 A, 45 P
21	Doug Jarvis	ca	C	24	5-9	170	L/-	4	March 24, 1955	13 G, 11 A, 24 P
25	Yvan Joly	ca	RW	19	5-8	175	R/-	R	February 6, 1960	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
10	Guy Lafleur	ca	RW	28	6-0	185	R/-	8	September 20, 1951	50 G, 75 A, 125 P
11	Yvon Lambert	ca	LW	29	6-2	200	L/-	7	May 20, 1950	21 G, 32 A, 53 P
17	Rod Langway	tw	D	22	6-3	218	L/-	1	May 3, 1957	7 G, 29 A, 36 P
5	Guy Lapointe	ca	D	31	6-0	205	L/-	11	March 18, 1948	6 G, 20 A, 26 P
1	Michel Larocque	ca	G	27	5-10	200	-/L	6	April 6, 1952	17-13-8, 3.33 GAA
28	Pierre Larouche	ca	C	24	5-11	175	R/-	5	November 16, 1955	50 G, 41 A, 91 P
24	Gilles Lupien	ca	D	25	6-6	210	L/-	2	April 20, 1954	1 G, 7 A, 8 P
30	Rick Meagher	ca	C	26	5-9	192	L/-	R	November 2, 1953	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
6	Pierre Mondou	ca	C	24	5-10	185	R/-	2	November 27, 1955	30 G, 36 A, 66 P
31	Mark Napier	ca	RW	23	5-10	182	L/-	1	January 28, 1957	16 G, 33 A, 49 P
30	Chris Nilan	us	LW	21	6-0	205	R/-	R	February 9, 1958	0 G, 2 A, 2 P
8	Doug Risebrough	ca	C	26	5-11	180	L/-	5	January 29, 1954	8 G, 10 A, 18 P
19	Larry Robinson	ca	D	28	6-4	225	L/-	7	June 2, 1951	14 G, 61 A, 75 P
2	Moe Robinson	ca	D	22	6-4	175	L/-	R	May 29, 1957	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
18	Serge Savard (C)	ca	D	34	6-3	210	L/-	13	January 22, 1946	5 G, 8 A, 13 P
33	Richard Sévigny	ca	G	22	5-8	172	-/L	R	April 11, 1957	5-4-2, 2.95 GAA
22	Steve Shutt	ca	LW	27	5-11	185	L/-	7	July 1, 1952	47 G, 42 A, 89 P
14	Mario Tremblay	ca	RW	23	6-0	185	R/-	5	September 2, 1956	16 G, 26 A, 42 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	Guy Lafleur*	28	RW	74	50	75	125	40	12	35	15	0	7	49	26	0	323	15.5			10.8	2.0	12.8
2	Pierre Larouche	24	C	73	50	41	91	35	16	38	12	0	7	27	14	0	220	22.7			8.1	1.8	10.0
3	Steve Shutt*	27	LW	77	47	42	89	45	34	30	17	0	4	36	6	0	224	21.0			7.6	2.2	9.7
4	Larry Robinson*	28	D	72	14	61	75	38	39	8	6	0	3	33	28	0	133	10.5			5.5	5.9	11.4
5	Pierre Mondou	24	C	75	30	36	66	26	12	22	8	0	3	25	11	0	152	19.7			4.5	1.6	6.1
6	Yvon Lambert	29	LW	77	21	32	53	3	23	14	7	0	7	28	4	0	104	20.2			2.7	0.9	3.6
7	Mark Napier	23	RW	76	16	33	49	11	7	12	4	0	1	23	10	0	123	13.0			2.0	1.2	3.2
8	Réjean Houle	30	LW	60	18	27	45	2	68	16	2	0	3	19	8	0	115	15.7			2.5	0.7	3.2
9	Mario Tremblay	23	RW	77	16	26	42	5	105	16	0	0	2	21	5	0	192	8.3			1.4	1.0	2.4
10	Rod Langway*	22	D	77	7	29	36	36	81	7	0	0	1	24	5	0	112	6.3			1.8	6.0	7.8
11	Bob Gainey*	26	LW	64	14	19	33	-1	32	9	4	1	3	13	5	1	153	9.2			1.1	0.7	1.8
12	Guy Lapointe*	31	D	45	6	20	26	-2	29	6	0	0	0	7	12	1	124	4.8			1.6	2.2	3.8
13	Doug Jarvis	24	C	80	13	11	24	-4	28	12	0	1	3	11	0	0	130	10.0			-0.4	0.8	0.4
14	Brian Engblom	25	D	70	3	20	23	21	43	3	0	0	0	20	0	0	86	3.5			0.6	4.8	5.4
15	Doug Risebrough	26	C	44	8	10	18	-2	81	8	0	0	0	10	0	0	82	9.8			0.2	0.4	0.7
16	Serge Savard*	34	D	46	5	8	13	-2	18	5	0	0	1	6	2	0	45	11.1			0.5	2.2	2.7
17	Rick Chartraw	25	D	66	5	7	12	7	35	5	0	0	0	7	0	0	65	7.7			-0.1	3.8	3.7
18	Gaston Gingras	20	D	34	3	7	10	10	18	1	2	0	1	5	2	0	60	5.0			0.3	2.3	2.6
19	Gilles Lupien	25	D	56	1	7	8	13	109	1	0	0	1	7	0	0	42	2.4			-0.5	3.6	3.2
20	Danny Geoffrion	22	RW	32	0	6	6	1	12	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	19	0.0			-0.8	0.4	-0.5
21	Norm Dupont	22	LW	35	1	3	4	2	4	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	18	5.6			-1.1	0.4	-0.6
22	Michel Larocque	27	G	39	0	2	2	0	4				0	2			0		2255	57:49	0.0	0.0	6.6
23	Chris Nilan	21	LW	15	0	2	2	-1	50	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	8	0.0			-0.5	0.1	-0.3
24	Keith Acton	21	C	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.0			0.0	0.0	0.0
25	Denis Herron	27	G	34	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		1908	56:06	0.0	0.0	7.6
26	Rick Meagher	26	C	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.0	-0.1
27	Moe Robinson	22	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.1	0.0
28	Richard Sévigny	22	G	11	0	0	0	0	4				0	0			0		631	57:19	0.0	0.0	2.2
	Team Total			80	328	525	853	283	864	249	77	2	47	383	140	2	2531	13.0			47.6	45.2	109.3

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	Denis Herron	27	34		25	3	3	80	858	778	.907	2.52	0	1908				79	20.8	2.17	7.6
2	Michel Larocque	27	39		17	13	8	125	1042	917	.880	3.33	3	2255				102	-2.6	2.90	6.6
3	Richard Sévigny	22	11		5	4	2	31	312	281	.901	2.95	0	631						2.57	2.2
	Team Total				47	20	13	236	2212	1976	.893	2.95	3	4794				91	23.9	2.57	16.4