100 Goal Scorers in Canadiens History
by Robert L on Jan 7, 2010 9:59 AM EST
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Contrary to the numeral suggesting otherwise, this not yet another centennial number related post. Simply, I received a letter over the New Year’s weekend from a woman named Louise Charpentier that went like this:
Dear Robert, I'm a long time reader of your site and have been a Canadiens fan since 1973. My father, who is 74 has been following them since the days of the Rocket. We're having a debate over how many players have scored 100 goals in a Canadiens uniform. I can guess about 35, my father says at least 75. Who's right and who's closest?
Well Louise, your father is off by 19 and you are off by 21!
There have been 56 players in 100 seasons that have reached the 100 regular season goal total. Two of the players on your list, Michael Ryder (99) and Richard Zednik (98) fell just shy.
Here are the 56 players in order. The list is surprising in a sense, as I would have been certain that some players would have had more and ranked higher. It also knocks me out the Newsy is still tenth after all this time.
For the curious, the three highest ranked present day Habs are Tomas Plekanec (88), Andrei Markov (77), and Andrei Kostitsyn (64).
1 Maurice Richard 544
3 Jean Beliveau 507
4 Yvan Cournoyer 428
5 Steve Shutt 408
6 Bernie Geoffrion 371
7 Jacques Lemaire 366
8 Henri Richard 358
9 Aurele Joliat 270
10 Newsy Lalonde 266
11 Mario Tremblay 258
12 Howie Morenz 257
13 Dickie Moore 254
14 Claude Provost 254
15 Mats Naslund 243
16 Bob Gainey 239
17 Toe Blake 235
18 Stephane Richer 225
19 Peter Mahovlich 223
20 Guy Carbonneau 221
21 Didier Pitre 220
22 Elmer Lach 215
23 Ralph Backstrom 215
24 Bobby Rousseau 200
25 Larry Robinson 197
26 Pierre Mondou 194
27 Saku Koivu 191
28 Vincent Damphousse 184
29 Yvon Lambert 181
30 Bobby Smith 172
31 Shayne Corson 168
32 Gilles Tremblay 168
33 Guy Lapointe 166
34 Mike McPhee 162
35 Rejean Houle 161
36 Brian Savage 155
37 Mark Napier 145
38 John Ferguson 145
39 Pit Lepine 143
41 Martin Rucinsky 134
42 Ken Mosdell 132
43 Frank Mahovlich 129
44 Mark Recchi 120
45 Claude Larose 117
46 Doug Risebrough 117
47 Johnny Gagnon 115
48 Don Marshall 114
49 Pierre Larouche 110
50 Floyd Curry 105
51 Kirk Muller 104
52 Stephane Lebeau 104
53 Bert Olmstead 103
54 Billy Reay 103
55 Alex Kovalev 103
56 Serge Savard 100
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Cleveland Barons sighting! Awesome.
Also, who’s the goalie with the sweet hat in the Morenz action shot? For that matter, what team is that, even? I’m going with Clint Benedict of the Montreal Maroons as my guess.
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The only Rangers goalies to face Morenz between 1926 and 1937, not counting the years Morenz was a Black Hawk and Ranger were Lorne Chabot, Hal Winkler, John Ross Roach, Andy Aitkenhead, and Dave Kerr. A quick scan of their photos points that only Kerr caught with his right hand. The shot would then be from 1937, one from Howie’s final season.
I’ve exchanged the shot with one from the Morenz gallery at the HHOF.
So is that the same shot, but clearer/at a different angle? I thought it might have been from that Rangers game in the Clark Gable movie, but I couldn’t see any writing on the jersey, so I became unsure and changed my answer. =(
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Are you on vacation?
Just wondering since Canadiens have plyaed some hockey and no analysis…
Analysis has been on vacation!
I’m aware, and feel a bit bad about not having any game related stuff since about New Years. The fact is that I’ve been occupied in one way or another on game nights, only catching partial glimpses of a period or half game. I feel that in order to be posting on them I should see them in whole and not offer an incomplete impression. As it’s been of late, I’m not even able to catch Express after games. It’s a bummer, but I’d rather not just toss off something for the sake of it.
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