2005-06 Montreal Canadiens Roster and Statistics

Record: 42-31-9 (93 points), Finished 3rd in NHL Northeast Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Claude Julien (19-16-6), Bob Gainey (23-15-3)

Primary Arena: Bell Centre

Goals For: 243 (20th of 30), Goals Against: 247 (12th of 30)
SRS: -0.01 (17th of 30), SOS: 0.04 (14th of 30)

Playoffs:
Lost Conference Quarter-Finals (4-2) to Carolina Hurricanes

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +2500

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Recent Game Results

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	AvAge	GP	W	L	OL	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	27.9	82	42	31	9	93	.567	241	244	-0.01	0.04	2.94	2.98	89	463	19.22	91	481	81.08	10	6	2470	9.8	2507	.903		8
League Average	28.3	82	41	32	9	91	.557	248	248					85	480	17.68	85	480	82.32	11	11	2458	10.1	2458	.899		4

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	Birth	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date
30	David Aebischer	ch CH	G	27	6-1	185	-/L	4	February 7, 1978
22	Steve Bégin	ca CA	C	27	6-0	192	L/-	6	June 14, 1978
14	Radek Bonk	cs CS	C	30	6-2	210	L/-	10	January 9, 1976
51	Francis Bouillon	us US	D	30	5-8	194	L/-	5	October 17, 1975
38	Jan Bulis	cs CS	LW	27	6-1	208	L/-	7	March 18, 1978
64	Jean-Philippe Côté	ca CA	D	23	6-3	213	L/-	R	April 22, 1982
26	Pierre Dagenais	ca CA	RW	27	6-4	217	L/-	4	March 4, 1978
25	Mathieu Dandenault	ca CA	D	29	6-0	208	R/-	9	February 3, 1976
75	Yann Danis	ca CA	G	24	6-0	185	-/L	R	June 21, 1981
47	Aaron Downey	ca CA	RW	31	6-1	215	R/-	5	August 27, 1974
86	Jonathan Ferland	ca CA	RW	22	6-2	212	R/-	R	February 9, 1983
21	Chris Higgins	us US	C	22	6-0	205	L/-	1	June 2, 1983
39	Cristobal Huet	fr FR	G	30	6-1	206	-/L	2	September 3, 1975
3	Raitis Ivanāns	su SU	D	27	6-4	240	L/-	R	January 3, 1979
11	Saku Koivu (C)	fi FI	C	31	5-10	182	L/-	9	November 23, 1974
8	Mike Komisarek	us US	D	24	6-4	235	R/-	2	January 19, 1982
46	Andrei Kostitsyn	su SU	RW	20	6-0	214	L/-	R	February 3, 1985
27	Alex Kovalev	su SU	RW	32	6-2	222	L/-	12	February 24, 1973
40	Maxim Lapierre	ca CA	C	20	6-2	215	R/-	R	March 29, 1985
79	Andrei Markov	su SU	D	27	6-0	200	L/-	4	December 20, 1978
57	Garth Murray	ca CA	C	23	6-2	210	L/-	1	September 17, 1982
42	Alexander Perezhogin	su SU	RW	22	6-0	211	L/-	R	August 10, 1983
35	Tomáš Plekanec	cs CS	LW	23	5-11	190	L/-	1	October 31, 1982
71	Mike Ribeiro	ca CA	LW	25	6-0	179	L/-	5	February 10, 1980
52	Craig Rivet	ca CA	D	31	6-2	207	R/-	10	September 13, 1974
73	Michael Ryder	ca CA	RW	25	6-1	200	R/-	1	March 31, 1980
24	Todd Simpson	ca CA	D	32	6-3	218	L/-	9	May 28, 1973
44	Sheldon Souray	ca CA	D	29	6-4	231	L/-	6	July 13, 1976
32	Mark Streit	ch CH	D	28	5-11	186	L/-	R	December 11, 1977
37	Niklas Sundström	se SE	RW	30	6-0	191	L/-	9	June 6, 1975
60	José Théodore	ca CA	G	29	5-11	172	-/R	8	September 13, 1976
20	Richard Zedník	cs CS	RW	30	6-0	200	L/-	9	January 6, 1976

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	Alex Kovalev	32	RW	69	23	42	65	-1	76	14	9	0	5	18	24	0	206	11.2	1344	19:28	4.8	1.5	6.3
2	Saku Koivu	31	C	72	17	45	62	1	70	12	5	0	4	23	22	0	138	12.3	1334	18:31	3.9	1.6	5.5
3	Michael Ryder	25	RW	81	30	25	55	-5	40	12	18	0	6	11	14	0	243	12.3	1310	16:10	4.6	1.3	5.9
4	Mike Ribeiro	25	LW	79	16	35	51	-6	36	8	8	0	2	18	17	0	130	12.3	1310	16:35	2.8	1.3	4.1
5	Andrei Markov	27	D	67	10	36	46	13	74	3	6	1	1	16	18	2	88	11.4	1578	23:33	3.7	4.6	8.3
6	Jan Bulis	27	LW	73	20	20	40	2	50	13	6	1	3	17	3	0	131	15.3	1141	15:37	2.6	1.4	4.0
7	Sheldon Souray	29	D	75	12	27	39	-11	116	4	7	1	0	12	14	1	202	5.9	1669	22:15	3.1	3.1	6.1
8	Chris Higgins	22	C	80	23	15	38	-1	26	13	7	3	3	10	5	0	148	15.5	1153	14:25	2.7	1.3	4.0
9	Craig Rivet	31	D	82	7	27	34	-5	109	2	5	0	1	16	10	1	122	5.7	1840	22:27	1.9	3.9	5.8
10	Richard Zedník	30	RW	67	16	14	30	-2	48	10	6	0	4	8	6	0	161	9.9	1057	15:46	1.5	1.2	2.6
11	Tomáš Plekanec	23	LW	67	9	20	29	4	32	8	1	0	0	12	5	3	99	9.1	888	13:15	1.2	1.2	2.3
12	Steve Bégin	27	C	76	11	12	23	9	113	8	1	2	2	9	1	2	134	8.2	1087	14:19	0.2	1.6	1.8
13	Francis Bouillon	30	D	67	3	19	22	-6	34	0	3	0	1	13	6	0	75	4.0	1392	20:47	0.8	2.8	3.6
14	Radek Bonk	30	C	61	6	15	21	-3	52	4	0	2	1	9	5	1	76	7.9	925	15:10	0.0	1.0	0.9
15	Mathieu Dandenault	29	D	82	5	15	20	8	83	5	0	0	1	12	2	1	101	5.0	1528	18:38	0.7	4.2	4.8
16	Alexander Perezhogin	22	RW	67	9	10	19	5	38	6	3	0	2	7	3	0	109	8.3	679	10:08	0.8	1.0	1.8
17	Niklas Sundström	30	RW	55	6	9	15	-6	30	6	0	0	2	8	0	1	54	11.1	755	13:44	-0.2	0.7	0.5
18	Pierre Dagenais	27	RW	32	5	7	12	-5	16	3	2	0	1	3	4	0	74	6.8	317	9:55	0.8	0.2	0.9
19	Mark Streit	28	D	48	2	9	11	-6	28	0	2	0	0	3	6	0	52	3.8	700	14:36	0.5	1.2	1.6
20	Garth Murray	23	C	36	5	1	6	-2	44	5	0	0	1	1	0	0	25	20.0	333	9:15	0.1	0.3	0.4
21	Mike Komisarek	24	D	71	2	4	6	-1	116	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	66	3.0	1042	14:40	-0.4	2.3	1.9
22	Aaron Downey	31	RW	25	1	4	5	2	50	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	10	10.0	168	6:43	0.1	0.3	0.4
23	Andrei Kostitsyn	20	RW	12	2	1	3	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	9	22.2	90	7:32	0.2	0.1	0.4
24	Jonathan Ferland	22	RW	7	1	0	1	-2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	11.1	46	6:37	0.1	0.0	0.0
25	José Théodore	29	G	38	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0				0		2114	55:38	0.0	0.0	4.0
26	David Aebischer	27	G	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		418	59:45	0.0	0.0	1.2
27	Jean-Philippe Côté	23	D	8	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	88	11:02	-0.1	0.4	0.3
28	Yann Danis	24	G	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		312	52:03	0.0	0.0	1.0
29	Cristobal Huet	30	G	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		2103	58:25	0.0	0.0	9.7
30	Raitis Ivanāns	27	D	4	0	0	0	-1	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		12	2:58	0.0	0.0	-0.1
31	Maxim Lapierre	20	C	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		3	3:04	0.0	0.0	0.0
32	Todd Simpson	32	D	6	0	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.0	96	15:59	-0.1	0.2	0.1
	Team Total			82	241	413	654	-17	1314	142	89	10	40	235	165	12	2470	9.8			35.9	38.4	90.4

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	Cristobal Huet	30	36		18	11	4	77	1085	1008	.929	2.20	7	2103				72	30.1	2.25	9.7
2	José Théodore	29	38		17	15	5	122	1025	903	.881	3.46	0	2114				121	-20.8	3.55	4.0
3	David Aebischer	27	7		4	3	0	26	240	214	.892	3.73	0	418						3.87	1.2
4	Yann Danis	24	6		3	2	0	14	152	138	.908	2.69	1	312						2.69	1.0
	Team Total				42	31	9	239	2502	2263	.904	2.90	8	4947				97	8.0	2.97	16.0