Montreal Canadiens Team Records and All-Time Leaders

No franchise in hockey has a longer record book than Montreal’s, and none has more in it that will never be touched again.

Guy Lafleur’s 1,246 points have stood since 1985. Maurice Richard’s 544 goals have stood since 1960. And George Hainsworth’s goaltending records from the late 1920s belong to a version of the sport that no longer exists: 22 shutouts in a 44-game season, at 0.92 goals against per game.

But two of the single-season records are genuinely in reach, and both belong to players on the current roster.

Who has scored the most goals for the Canadiens?

Maurice Richard, with 544.

Career record	Holder	Figure
Goals	Maurice Richard	544
Points	Guy Lafleur	1,246
Assists	Guy Lafleur	728
Games	Henri Richard	more than 1,250
Penalty minutes	Chris Nilan	2,248
Seasons with the club	Henri Richard	20

Richard retired in 1960, having been the first player in NHL history to reach 500 goals. Guy Lafleur, second on the club list with 518, is the only other Canadien to pass 500, and no active player is close.

Who has the most points in Canadiens history?

Guy Lafleur, with 1,246 over 14 seasons, and his 728 assists are the club record too.

Player	Points	Goals	Assists
Guy Lafleur	1,246	518	728
Henri Richard	1,046	358	688

Lafleur’s 728 assists are the club record, and both marks have stood since 1985.

Henri Richard also holds the games record, with more than 1,250 games across 20 seasons between 1955 and 1975. He also won eleven Stanley Cups as a player, which no one in NHL history has matched.

What are the Canadiens single-season records?

Record	Holder	Figure	Season
Goals	Steve Shutt and Guy Lafleur	60	1976-77 and 1977-78
Assists	Pete Mahovlich	82	1974-75
Points	Guy Lafleur	136	1976-77
Points by a rookie	Mats Näslund and Kjell Dahlin	71	1982-83 and 1985-86
Penalty minutes	Chris Nilan	358	1984-85
Power-play goals	Yvan Cournoyer	20	1966-67
Goals by a defenseman	Guy Lapointe	28	1974-75
Points by a defenseman	Larry Robinson	85	1976-77

Four of these eight come from the same two seasons. The 1976-77 and 1977-78 Canadiens are the most dominant pair of years any club has had, and Lafleur’s 136 points, Shutt’s and Lafleur’s 60 goals, and Robinson’s 85 from defense all date from them.

Cournoyer’s 1966-67 is the oddity: he scored 25 goals that season, and 20 of them came on the power play.

The two Swedish rookies who share the rookie record, Näslund and Dahlin, arrived three years apart in the 1980s and posted the same total.

What are the Canadiens team records?

Record	Figure	Season
Most wins	60	1976-77
Most points	132	1976-77
Most goals for	387	1976-77
Fewest goals against, 44-game season	43	1928-29
Fewest goals against, 70-game season	131	1955-56
Longest winning streak	12 games	1967-68
Longest unbeaten streak	28 games	1977-78
Worst points percentage	.260	1939-40

The 1976-77 season is the best any NHL team has had. 60 wins, 132 points, and eight losses in 80 games, and all three are league records as well as club records.

The 28-game unbeaten run the following season, 23 wins and five ties, is the second-longest in NHL history behind Philadelphia’s 35 in 1979-80.

Two rows need their schedules attached. The 43 goals allowed in 1928-29 came in a 44-game season and cannot be compared to a modern year, which is why the 70-game figure is given alongside it. The .260 in 1939-40 came in a 48-game season.

Who holds the Canadiens goaltending records?

George Hainsworth and Carey Price, from opposite ends of the century, can’t really be compared.

Record	Holder	Figure	Season
Wins, career	Carey Price	361	career
Shutouts, career	George Hainsworth	75	career
Wins, season	Carey Price	44	2014-15
Shutouts, season	George Hainsworth	22	1928-29
Goals-against average, season	George Hainsworth	0.92	1928-29
Save percentage, season	Carey Price	.933	2014-15

Hainsworth’s 1928-29 season is the most extreme goaltending season in any club’s record book. 22 shutouts in 44 games means he kept a clean sheet in half of them, and his 22 is still the NHL single-season record. The 0.92 average comes from a season when the forward pass was not yet allowed in the attacking zone.

Price’s records are modern, and his 361 wins are the career mark. His .933 in 2014-15 is the best save percentage in club history, but only within the era in which save percentage was recorded at all — the statistic did not exist for Hainsworth, Georges Vézina or Bill Durnan, so the comparison cannot be made.

How many Stanley Cups have the Canadiens won?

24, and the number needs one qualification every time it is used.

23 of them came after the NHL was founded in 1917. One, in 1916, was won in the National Hockey Association, before the NHL existed. An unqualified “24 NHL championships” is wrong.

The 23 NHL Cups run from 1924 to 1993, and no other franchise has more than half as many. Two seasons in the record books look like Cups and are not: in 1919 Montreal won the NHL title but the Final against Seattle was abandoned during the influenza pandemic, and no Cup was awarded, and in 1925 the club won the NHL final and then lost the Cup Final to Victoria.

Which records could fall next?

Two, and both are single-season marks held by the 1976-77 and 1977-78 teams.

Lane Hutson is closing on Larry Robinson’s 85 points by a defenseman. He put up 78 in his second full season, and he has already matched the 66 assists Robinson recorded in the record year. A normal step forward takes it.

Cole Caufield is the closest any Canadien has come to the 60-goal mark in decades. He reached 51 in 2025-26. It needs a career year rather than a step forward, but it is not far-fetched.

Everything else is settled. The career records are out of reach by several hundred points, the goaltending marks belong to retired players, and the rookie record can only fall to a future rookie.

Where does this data come from?

Team and season figures come from the NHL’s records database and were cross-checked against Hockey-Reference’s franchise career leaders and Wikipedia’s list of club records. The career goal, point, and win records match on all three.