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1996-97 Montreal Canadiens Roster and Statistics

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Record: 31-36-15 (77 points), Finished 4th in NHL Northeast Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Mario Tremblay (31-36-15)

Captain: Vincent Damphousse , Pierre Turgeon

Primary Arena: Molson Centre

Goals For: 249 (9th of 26), Goals Against: 276 (23rd of 26)
SRS: -0.34 (21st of 26), SOS: -0.01 (16th of 26)

Playoffs:
Lost Conference Quarter-Finals (4-1) to New Jersey Devils

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +1800

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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	82	31	36	15	77	.470	249	276	-0.34	-0.01	3.04	3.37	53	337	15.73	71	347	79.54	10	11	2474	10.1	2780	.901		1
League Average	82	35	35	11	82	.500	239	239					55	336	16.27	55	336	83.73	10	10	2444	9.8	2444	.902		5

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
36	Murray Baron	ca	D	29	6-3	215	L/-	7	June 1, 1967
71	Sébastien Bordeleau	ca	C	21	5-11	185	R/-	1	February 15, 1975
35	Donald Brashear	us	LW	25	6-3	237	L/-	3	January 7, 1972
43	Patrice Brisebois	ca	D	26	6-2	197	R/-	6	January 27, 1971
32	Brad Brown	ca	D	21	6-4	220	R/-	R	December 27, 1975
17	Benoît Brunet	ca	LW	28	6-0	203	L/-	7	August 24, 1968
18	Valeri Bure	su	RW	22	5-10	185	R/-	2	June 13, 1974
28	Marc Bureau	ca	C	30	6-1	203	R/-	7	May 19, 1966
27-29	Shayne Corson	ca	LW	30	6-1	202	L/-	11	August 13, 1966
35	Jassen Cullimore	ca	D	24	6-5	235	L/-	2	December 4, 1972
25	Vincent Damphousse (C)	ca	C	29	6-1	200	L/-	10	December 17, 1967
53	Rory Fitzpatrick	us	D	22	6-2	208	R/-	1	January 11, 1975
48	François Groleau	ca	D	24	6-0	197	L/-	1	January 23, 1973
20	Éric Houde	ca	C	20	5-11	191	L/-	R	December 19, 1976
39	Pat Jablonski	us	G	29	6-0	180	-/R	6	June 20, 1967
11	Saku Koivu	fi	C	22	5-10	182	L/-	1	November 23, 1974
51	David Ling	ca	RW	22	5-10	204	R/-	R	January 9, 1975
38	Vladimir Malakhov	su	D	28	6-4	230	L/-	4	August 30, 1968
37	Dave Manson	ca	D	30	6-2	200	L/-	10	January 27, 1967
22	Chris Murray	ca	RW	22	6-2	213	R/-	2	October 25, 1974
34	Peter Popovic	se	D	28	6-6	243	L/-	3	February 10, 1968
5	Stéphane Quintal	ca	D	28	6-3	231	R/-	8	October 22, 1968
8	Mark Recchi	ca	RW	28	5-10	195	L/-	8	February 1, 1968
44	Stéphane Richer	ca	RW	30	6-2	215	R/-	12	June 7, 1966
52	Craig Rivet	ca	D	22	6-2	207	R/-	2	September 13, 1974
26	Martin Ručinský	cs	LW	25	6-1	205	L/-	5	March 11, 1971
14	Terry Ryan	ca	LW	20	6-1	202	L/-	R	January 14, 1977
49	Brian Savage	ca	LW	25	6-1	200	L/-	3	February 24, 1971
15	Pierre Sévigny	ca	LW	25	6-0	195	L/-	2	September 8, 1971
30	Turner Stevenson	ca	RW	24	6-3	220	R/-	4	May 18, 1972
60	José Théodore	ca	G	20	5-11	172	-/R	1	September 13, 1976
41	Jocelyn Thibault	ca	G	22	5-11	169	-/L	3	January 12, 1975
24	Scott Thornton	ca	C	26	6-3	220	L/-	6	January 9, 1971
42	Darcy Tucker	ca	C	21	5-10	178	L/-	1	March 15, 1975
77	Pierre Turgeon (C)	ca	C	27	6-1	199	L/-	9	August 28, 1969
37	Tomáš Vokoun	cs	G	20	6-1	210	-/R	R	July 2, 1976
3-27	David Wilkie	us	D	22	6-3	215	R/-	2	May 30, 1974

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	Vincent Damphousse	29	C	82	27	54	81	-6	82	18	7	2	3	37	14	3	244	11.1			6.8	0.6	7.4
2	Mark Recchi*	28	RW	82	34	46	80	-1	58	25	7	2	3	32	13	1	202	16.8			7.3	0.8	8.1
3	Brian Savage	25	LW	81	23	37	60	-14	39	18	5	0	2	30	7	0	219	10.5			4.5	0.4	4.9
4	Saku Koivu	22	C	50	17	39	56	7	38	12	5	0	3	26	12	1	135	12.6			4.8	0.8	5.5
5	Martin Ručinský	25	LW	70	28	27	55	1	62	19	6	3	3	18	9	0	172	16.3			4.9	0.8	5.7
6	Stéphane Richer	30	RW	63	22	24	46	0	32	20	2	0	2	20	4	0	126	17.5			3.8	0.7	4.5
7	Valeri Bure	22	RW	64	14	21	35	4	6	10	4	0	2	13	8	0	131	10.7			2.0	0.8	2.8
8	Vladimir Malakhov	28	D	65	10	20	30	3	43	5	5	0	1	10	9	1	177	5.6			2.4	2.6	5.0
9	Benoît Brunet	28	LW	39	10	13	23	6	14	8	2	0	2	11	1	1	63	15.9			1.5	0.6	2.1
10	Stéphane Quintal	28	D	71	7	15	22	1	100	6	1	0	0	9	5	1	139	5.0			1.3	2.7	3.9
11	Turner Stevenson	24	RW	65	8	13	21	-14	97	7	1	0	0	12	1	0	76	10.5			0.1	0.2	0.3
12	Shayne Corson	30	LW	47	6	15	21	-5	80	4	2	0	2	13	1	1	96	6.3			0.7	0.3	1.0
13	Scott Thornton	26	C	73	10	10	20	-19	128	8	1	1	1	9	1	0	110	9.1			-0.1	0.1	0.0
14	Darcy Tucker	21	C	73	7	13	20	-5	110	6	1	0	3	12	1	0	62	11.3			-0.3	0.6	0.2
15	Marc Bureau	30	C	43	6	9	15	4	16	4	1	1	2	8	0	1	56	10.7			0.3	0.6	0.9
16	David Wilkie	22	D	61	6	9	15	-9	63	3	3	0	0	7	2	0	65	9.2			0.7	1.6	2.3
17	Patrice Brisebois	26	D	49	2	13	15	-7	24	2	0	0	1	8	5	0	72	2.8			0.6	1.3	1.9
18	Peter Popovic	28	D	78	1	13	14	9	32	1	0	0	0	12	0	1	82	1.2			-0.2	3.5	3.3
19	Sébastien Bordeleau	21	C	28	2	9	11	-3	2	2	0	0	0	7	0	2	27	7.4			0.1	0.2	0.3
20	Pierre Turgeon	27	C	9	1	10	11	4	2	1	0	0	0	6	4	0	22	4.5			0.8	0.2	1.0
21	Jassen Cullimore	24	D	49	2	6	8	4	42	1	0	1	1	3	3	0	52	3.8			0.0	2.1	2.0
22	Chris Murray	22	RW	56	4	2	6	-8	114	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	32	12.5			-1.3	0.3	-0.9
23	Murray Baron	29	D	60	1	5	6	-16	107	1	0	0	0	3	1	1	52	1.9			-0.5	1.1	0.5
24	Craig Rivet	22	D	35	0	4	4	7	54	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	24	0.0			-0.3	1.8	1.4
25	Dave Manson	30	D	9	1	1	2	-1	23	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	22	4.5			0.1	0.3	0.4
26	Éric Houde	20	C	13	0	2	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0.0			-0.3	0.2	-0.1
27	Rory Fitzpatrick	22	D	6	0	1	1	-2	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	0.0			0.0	0.1	0.1
28	Donald Brashear	25	LW	10	0	0	0	-2	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.0			-0.4	0.0	-0.4
29	Brad Brown	21	D	8	0	0	0	-1	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.2	0.2	0.1
30	François Groleau	24	D	5	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.1	0.2	0.1
31	Pat Jablonski	29	G	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		754	44:20	0.0	0.0	1.6
32	David Ling	22	RW	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.0	-0.1
33	Terry Ryan	20	LW	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.0	-0.1
34	Pierre Sévigny	25	LW	13	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.5	0.1	-0.4
35	José Théodore	20	G	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		821	51:18	0.0	0.0	2.3
36	Jocelyn Thibault	22	G	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		3397	55:42	0.0	0.0	10.8
37	Tomáš Vokoun	20	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		20	20:00	0.0	0.0	-0.2
	Team Total			82	249	431	680	-62	1445	186	53	10	31	315	102	14	2474	10.1			38.2	25.6	78.3

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	Jocelyn Thibault	22	61		22	24	11	164	1815	1651	.910	2.90	1	3397				95	8.9	3.11	10.8
2	José Théodore	20	16		5	6	2	53	508	455	.896	3.87	0	821				110	-4.6	4.17	2.3
3	Pat Jablonski	29	17		4	6	2	50	438	388	.886	3.98	0	754				120	-8.3	4.30	1.6
4	Tomáš Vokoun	20	1		0	0	0	4	14	10	.714	12.00	0	20						12.00	-0.2
	Team Total				31	36	15	271	2775	2504	.902	3.26	1	4992				103	-6.6	3.50	14.5