Montréal Canadiens

Every NHL player the encyclopedia attributes to the Montréal Canadiensfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Montréal Canadiens has passed down, steadiest first. The G room is their most stable — 21 holders across 100 years, a new one every 4.8 on average.

1. G21 holders · 20 handoffs · 1927–2026 · one every 4.8y
   George Hainsworth1927–1937→Wilf Cude1934–1941→Bill Durnan1944–1950→Jacques Plante1953–1963→Charlie Hodge1955–1967→Gump Worsley1964–1970→Rogie Vachon1967–1972→Ken Dryden1971–1979→Michel Larocque1974–1981→Denis Herron1980–1982→Richard Sevigny1980–1984→Rick Wamsley1981–1984→Patrick Roy1985–1996→Brian Hayward1987–1990→Jocelyn Thibault1996–1999→Jose Theodore1996–2006→Jeff Hackett1999–2003→Cristobal Huet2006–2008→Jaroslav Halak2007–2010→Carey Price2008–2022→Samuel Montembeault2022–2026
2. RW36 holders · 35 handoffs · 1926–2026 · one every 2.8y
   Wildor Larochelle1926–1936→Johnny Gagnon1931–1940→Joe Benoit1941–1947→Maurice Richard1943–1960→Floyd Curry1948–1958→Bernie Geoffrion1951–1964→Claude Provost1956–1970→Bill Hicke1959–1965→Bobby Rousseau1961–1970→Claude Larose1963–1975→Leon Rochefort1964–1971→Jimmy Roberts1964–1977→Yvan Cournoyer1964–1979→Mickey Redmond1968–1971→Chuck Lefley1971–1975→Guy Lafleur1972–1985→Mario Tremblay1975–1986→Mark Napier1979–1984→Chris Nilan1980–1992→Claude Lemieux1984–1990→Stephane Richer1985–1998→Russ Courtnall1989–1992→Mike Keane1989–1996→Turner Stevenson1993–2000→Oleg Petrov1993–2003→Valeri Bure1995–1998→Mark Recchi1995–1999→Richard Zednik2001–2006→Alex Kovalev2004–2009→Michael Ryder2004–2013→Brian Gionta2010–2014→Brendan Gallagher2013–2026→Andrew Shaw2017–2019→Joel Armia2019–2025→Cole Caufield2021–2026→Josh Anderson2021–2026
3. C41 holders · 40 handoffs · 1924–2026 · one every 2.5y
   Howie Morenz1924–1937→Pit Lepine1926–1938→Paul Haynes1936–1941→Ray Getliffe1940–1945→Elmer Lach1941–1954→Buddy O'Connor1942–1947→Ken Mosdell1945–1959→Billy Reay1946–1953→Jean Beliveau1951–1971→Henri Richard1956–1975→Phil Goyette1957–1963→Ralph Backstrom1957–1971→Jacques Lemaire1968–1979→Peter Mahovlich1970–1978→Doug Risebrough1975–1982→Doug Jarvis1976–1982→Pierre Mondou1977–1985→Pierre Larouche1978–1982→Keith Acton1980–1984→Doug Wickenheiser1981–1984→Guy Carbonneau1981–1994→Ryan Walter1983–1991→Bobby Smith1984–1990→Brian Skrudland1986–1993→Stephan Lebeau1989–1994→Denis Savard1991–1993→Vincent Damphousse1993–1999→Pierre Turgeon1995–1997→Saku Koivu1996–2009→Mike Ribeiro2000–2006→Jan Bulis2001–2006→Yanic Perreault2002–2004→Tomas Plekanec2004–2019→Scott Gomez2010–2012→David Desharnais2010–2017→Lars Eller2011–2016→Alex Galchenyuk2013–2018→Phillip Danault2016–2026→Max Domi2019–2020→Jake Evans2020–2026→Nick Suzuki2020–2026
4. LW54 holders · 53 handoffs · 1923–2026 · one every 1.9y
   Aurel Joliat1923–1938→Armand Mondou1929–1940→Polly Drouin1936–1941→Toe Blake1936–1948→Murph Chamberlain1941–1949→Dutch Hiller1943–1946→Bob Fillion1944–1950→Calum MacKay1950–1955→Paul Meger1950–1955→Dick Gamble1951–1956→Bert Olmstead1951–1958→Dickie Moore1952–1963→Donnie Marshall1952–1963→Andre Pronovost1957–1961→Marcel Bonin1958–1962→Gilles Tremblay1961–1969→Dave Balon1964–1967→John Ferguson1964–1971→Dick Duff1965–1970→Marc Tardif1970–1973→Rejean Houle1970–1983→Frank Mahovlich1971–1974→Murray Wilson1973–1978→Yvon Lambert1973–1981→Steve Shutt1973–1985→Bob Gainey1974–1989→Mats Naslund1983–1990→Mike Mcphee1984–1992→Shayne Corson1986–2000→Brent Gilchrist1989–1992→Benoit Brunet1989–2002→Gilbert Dionne1991–1995→John LeClair1991–1995→Kirk Muller1992–1995→Brian Bellows1993–1995→Brian Savage1994–2002→Martin Rucinsky1996–2002→Scott Thornton1997–2000→Patrick Poulin1998–2002→Chad Kilger2001–2004→Chris Higgins2004–2009→Steve Begin2004–2009→Andrei Kostitsyn2006–2012→Guillaume Latendresse2007–2010→Sergei Kostitsyn2008–2010→Max Pacioretty2009–2018→Michael Cammalleri2010–2012→Travis Moen2010–2015→Erik Cole2012–2013→Paul Byron2016–2022→Artturi Lehkonen2017–2022→Jonathan Drouin2018–2023→Tomas Tatar2019–2021→Juraj Slafkovský2023–2026
5. D55 holders · 54 handoffs · 1924–2026 · one every 1.9y
   Sylvio Mantha1924–1936→Albert Leduc1926–1935→Marty Burke1928–1938→Georges Mantha1929–1941→Ken Reardon1941–1950→Butch Bouchard1942–1956→Glen Harmon1943–1951→Doug Harvey1948–1961→Tom Johnson1948–1963→Dollard St. Laurent1951–1958→Jean-Guy Talbot1955–1967→J.C. Tremblay1960–1972→Terry Harper1963–1972→Jacques Laperriere1963–1974→Ted Harris1964–1970→Serge Savard1967–1981→Guy Lapointe1969–1982→Pierre Bouchard1971–1978→Larry Robinson1973–1989→Rick Chartraw1975–1981→Brian Engblom1977–1982→Rod Langway1979–1982→Gaston Gingras1980–1988→Robert Picard1981–1984→Rick Green1983–1989→Craig Ludwig1983–1990→Chris Chelios1984–1990→Tom Kurvers1985–1987→Petr Svoboda1985–1992→Mathieu Schneider1988–2009→Eric Desjardins1989–1995→J.J. Daigneault1990–1996→Lyle Odelein1990–1996→Patrice Brisebois1991–2009→Peter Popovic1994–1998→Vladimir Malakhov1995–2000→Craig Rivet1995–2007→Stephane Quintal1996–2004→Karl Dykhuis2000–2004→Sheldon Souray2000–2007→Francis Bouillon2000–2014→Andrei Markov2001–2017→Mike Komisarek2003–2009→Mark Streit2006–2018→Josh Gorges2007–2014→Roman Hamrlik2008–2011→P.K. Subban2010–2016→Alexei Emelin2012–2017→Nathan Beaulieu2013–2017→Jeff Petry2015–2022→Shea Weber2017–2021→David Savard2022–2025→Kaiden Guhle2023–2026→Mike Matheson2023–2026→Lane Hutson2024–2026

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1923–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.