1994–95 Montreal Canadiens season

	1994–95 Montreal Canadiens
Division	6th Northeast
Conference	11th Eastern
1994–95 record	18–23–7
Home record	15–5–4
Road record	3–18–3
Goals for	125
Goals against	148
Team information
General manager	Serge Savard
Coach	Jacques Demers
Captain	Kirk Muller (Oct-Apr) ; Mike Keane (Apr)
Alternate captains	Jean-Jacques Daigneault; Vincent Damphousse; Mike Keane (Oct-Apr)
Arena	Montreal Forum
Team leaders
Goals	Mark Recchi (14)
Assists	Vincent Damphousse (30)
Points	Mark Recchi (43)
Penalty minutes	Lyle Odelein (152)
Plus/minus	Vincent Damphousse (+15)
Wins	Patrick Roy (17)
Goals against average	Patrick Roy (2.97)
	← 1993–94 1995–96 →

The 1994–95 Montreal Canadiens season was the club's 86th season of play. This was the first season since 1969–70 that the Canadiens failed to qualify for the playoffs.

Offseason[]

In the entry draft, the Canadiens selected Brad Brown a defenceman with their first-round pick, eighteenth over-all. The Canadiens were more fortunate with their second-round pick, selecting Jose Theodore forty-fourth over-all.

Regular season[]

The season started later and was abbreviated by a lockout of the players by the NHL owners. The Canadiens played only 48 games. It was a forgettable season for the Canadiens and their fans, as the team missed the playoffs for the first time in 25 years. The Canadiens only won 3 of 24 games on the road. ^[1] Already gone at the season's debut were members of the formidable 1992-93 Stanley-Cup champion team, including Guy Carbonneau, Kevin Haller, Stephan Lebeau and Denis Savard. On February 9, more players from the 1992-93 team departed, as Eric Desjardins, Gilbert Dionne and John LeClair were traded to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Mark Recchi. Another major trade nearly two months later on April 5 would send Craig Darby, Mathieu Schneider and fan favorite Kirk Muller to the New York Islanders in exchange for Vladimir Malakhov and Pierre Turgeon. After a 7-5-4 start, Montreal won only 11 of its final 32 games, going 11-18-3. It was the first season of Patrick Roy's career in which he lost more games than he won.

Final standings[]

Northeast Division
No.	CR		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	1	Quebec Nordiques	48	30	13	5	185	134	65
2	3	Pittsburgh Penguins	48	29	16	3	181	158	61
3	4	Boston Bruins	48	27	18	3	150	127	57
4	7	Buffalo Sabres	48	22	19	7	130	119	51
5	10	Hartford Whalers	48	19	24	5	127	141	43
6	11	Montreal Canadiens	48	18	23	7	125	148	43
7	14	Ottawa Senators	48	9	34	5	117	174	23

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Game log[]

#	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	L	Jan 21, 1995	2–5	@ New York Rangers	0–1–0
2	W	Jan 25, 1995	2–0	Washington Capitals	1–1–0
3	W	Jan 28, 1995	5–1	New Jersey Devils	2–1–0
4	T	Jan 29, 1995	2–2 OT	Philadelphia Flyers	2–1–1
5	L	Jan 31, 1995	1–4	@ Tampa Bay Lightning	2–2–1
6	T	Feb 2, 1995	1–1 OT	@ Florida Panthers	2–2–2
7	W	Feb 4, 1995	4–2	New York Islanders	3–2–2
8	L	Feb 7, 1995	4–7	@ Boston Bruins	3–3–2
9	W	Feb 8, 1995	4–2	@ Ottawa Senators	4–3–2
10	L	Feb 11, 1995	1–3	@ Pittsburgh Penguins	4–4–2
11	T	Feb 13, 1995	2–2 OT	Hartford Whalers	4–4–3
12	L	Feb 15, 1995	1–4	@ Hartford Whalers	4–5–3
13	T	Feb 16, 1995	2–2 OT	@ New York Rangers	4–5–4
14	W	Feb 18, 1995	5–2	New York Rangers	5–5–4
15	W	Feb 20, 1995	3–2 OT	New York Islanders	6–5–4
16	W	Feb 23, 1995	5–2	@ Florida Panthers	7–5–4
17	L	Feb 25, 1995	0–7	Philadelphia Flyers	7–6–4
18	L	Feb 27, 1995	1–6	@ New Jersey Devils	7–7–4
19	L	Feb 28, 1995	1–2	@ New York Islanders	7–8–4
20	L	Mar 4, 1995	1–5	@ Washington Capitals	7–9–4
21	L	Mar 5, 1995	1–4	@ Buffalo Sabres	7–10–4
22	T	Mar 8, 1995	2–2 OT	Buffalo Sabres	7–10–5
23	W	Mar 11, 1995	3–1	New York Rangers	8–10–5
24	L	Mar 13, 1995	2–4	@ Pittsburgh Penguins	8–11–5
25	W	Mar 15, 1995	8–5	Pittsburgh Penguins	9–11–5
26	L	Mar 16, 1995	0–6	@ Boston Bruins	9–12–5
27	W	Mar 18, 1995	5–4	Quebec Nordiques	10–12–5
28	L	Mar 20, 1995	4–8	@ Philadelphia Flyers	10–13–5
29	L	Mar 22, 1995	2–3	Florida Panthers	10–14–5
30	W	Mar 25, 1995	3–1	Ottawa Senators	11–14–5
31	L	Mar 27, 1995	2–3 OT	@ Tampa Bay Lightning	11–15–5
32	L	Apr 1, 1995	1–4	@ New Jersey Devils	11–16–5
33	W	Apr 3, 1995	5–4	@ Ottawa Senators	12–16–5
34	W	Apr 5, 1995	6–5	Quebec Nordiques	13–16–5
35	L	Apr 6, 1995	2–3	@ Quebec Nordiques	13–17–5
36	W	Apr 8, 1995	2–1	Pittsburgh Penguins	14–17–5
37	W	Apr 10, 1995	2–1	New Jersey Devils	15–17–5
38	L	Apr 12, 1995	2–3	@ Philadelphia Flyers	15–18–5
39	L	Apr 14, 1995	3–4 OT	@ Hartford Whalers	15–19–5
40	L	Apr 15, 1995	2–3	Boston Bruins	15–20–5
41	W	Apr 17, 1995	5–2	Washington Capitals	16–20–5
42	W	Apr 19, 1995	4–1	Ottawa Senators	17–20–5
43	W	Apr 22, 1995	3–1	Tampa Bay Lightning	18–20–5
44	L	Apr 24, 1995	3–4	Hartford Whalers	18–21–5
45	T	Apr 26, 1995	1–1 OT	@ Quebec Nordiques	18–21–6
46	T	Apr 29, 1995	3–3 OT	Buffalo Sabres	18–21–7
47	L	May 1, 1995	0–2	@ Buffalo Sabres	18–22–7
48	L	May 3, 1995	2–4	Boston Bruins	18–23–7

Playoffs[]

The Canadiens did not qualify for the playoffs.

Player stats[]

Regular season[]

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG
Recchi, MarkMark Recchi	RW	39	14	29	43	16	-3	8	0	1
Damphousse, VincentVincent Damphousse	C	48	10	30	40	42	15	4	0	4
Brunet, BenoitBenoit Brunet	LW	45	7	18	25	16	7	1	1	2
Turgeon, PierrePierre Turgeon	C	15	11	9	20	4	12	2	0	2
Keane, MikeMike Keane	RW	48	10	10	20	15	5	1	0	0
Schneider, MathieuMathieu Schneider	D	30	5	15	20	49	-3	2	0	0
Savage, BrianBrian Savage	LW	37	12	7	19	27	5	0	0	0
Muller, KirkKirk Muller	LW	33	8	11	19	33	-21	3	0	1
Bellows, BrianBrian Bellows	LW	41	8	8	16	8	-7	1	0	1
Brisebois, PatricePatrice Brisebois	D	35	4	8	12	26	-2	0	0	2
Racine, YvesYves Racine	D	47	4	7	11	42	-1	2	0	1
Odelein, LyleLyle Odelein	D	48	3	7	10	152	-13	0	0	0
DiPietro, PaulPaul DiPietro	C	22	4	5	9	4	-3	0	0	1
Daigneault, J.J.J.J. Daigneault	D	45	3	5	8	40	2	0	0	0
Stevenson, TurnerTurner Stevenson	RW	41	6	1	7	86	0	0	0	1
Fogarty, BryanBryan Fogarty	D	21	5	2	7	34	-3	3	0	0
Desjardins, EricEric Desjardins	D	9	0	6	6	2	2	0	0	0
Petrov, OlegOleg Petrov	RW	12	2	3	5	4	-7	0	0	0
LeClair, JohnJohn LeClair	LW	9	1	4	5	10	-1	1	0	0
Malakhov, VladimirVladimir Malakhov	D	14	1	4	5	14	-2	0	0	0
Ronan, EdEd Ronan	RW	30	1	4	5	12	-7	0	0	0
Popovic, PeterPeter Popovic	D	33	0	5	5	8	-10	0	0	0
Bure, ValeriValeri Bure	RW	24	3	1	4	6	-1	0	0	1
Dionne, GilbertGilbert Dionne	LW	6	0	3	3	2	-3	0	0	0
Brashear, DonaldDonald Brashear	LW	20	1	1	2	63	-5	0	0	1
Darby, CraigCraig Darby	C	10	0	2	2	0	-5	0	0	0
Conroy, CraigCraig Conroy	C	6	1	0	1	0	-1	0	0	0
Lamb, MarkMark Lamb	C	39	1	0	1	18	-13	0	0	0
Rivet, CraigCraig Rivet	D	5	0	1	1	5	2	0	0	0
Roy, PatrickPatrick Roy	G	43	0	1	1	20	0	0	0	0
Sarault, YvesYves Sarault	LW	8	0	1	1	0	-1	0	0	0
Ferguson, CraigCraig Ferguson	C	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fleming, GerryGerry Fleming	LW	6	0	0	0	17	-1	0	0	0
Montgomery, JimJim Montgomery	C	5	0	0	0	2	-2	0	0	0
Murray, ChrisChris Murray	RW	3	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
Roberge, MarioMario Roberge	LW	9	0	0	0	34	-2	0	0	0
Sevigny, PierrePierre Sevigny	LW	19	0	0	0	15	-5	0	0	0
Tugnutt, RonRon Tugnutt	G	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wilkie, DavidDavid Wilkie	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO	SA	SV	SV%
Roy, PatrickPatrick Roy	2566	43	17	20	6	127	2.97	1	1357	1230	.906
Tugnutt, RonRon Tugnutt	346	7	1	3	1	18	3.12	0	172	154	.895
Team:	2912	48	18	23	7	145	2.99	1	1529	1384	.905

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Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes; PPG=Power-play goals; SHG=Short-handed goals; GWG=Game-winning goals
MIN=Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; SO = Shutouts; SA=Shots Against; SV=Shots saved; SV% = Save Percentage;

Transactions[]

February 9, 1995: Montreal Canadiens traded John LeClair, along with Éric Desjardins and Gilbert Dionne to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Mark Recchi and Philadelphia's 3rd round choice (Martin Hohenberger) in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. LeClair gelled immediately with new line-mate Eric Lindros and quickly became one of the NHL's most feared goal scorers.

April 5, 1995: Montreal Canadiens obtain Pierre Turgeon and Vladimir Malakhov from the New York Islanders for Kirk Muller, Mathieu Schneider and Craig Darby.^[3]

Draft picks[]

See also: 1994 NHL Entry Draft

Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	College/junior/club team
1	18	Brad Brown (Defence)	Canada	North Bay Centennials (OHL)
2	44	Jose Theodore (Goaltender)	Canada	Saint-Jean Lynx (QMJHL)

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Farm teams[]

References[]

↑ Patrick Roy, winning, nothing else, p.338, by Michel Roy, translated by Charles Phillips, 2008, John Wiley & Sons, Mississauga, ON, ISBN 978-0-470-15616-2
↑ 1994-95 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com. hockey-reference.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-28.
↑ NHL trade deadline: Deals since 1980 | Habs Inside/Out
↑ http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl1994e.html

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[1] Patrick Roy, winning, nothing else, p.338, by Michel Roy, translated by Charles Phillips, 2008, John Wiley & Sons, Mississauga, ON, ISBN 978-0-470-15616-2

[2] 1994-95 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com. hockey-reference.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-28.

[3] NHL trade deadline: Deals since 1980 | Habs Inside/Out

[4] ttp://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl1994e.html

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Montreal Canadiens
Franchise	Franchise • Original Six • Players • Coaches • General Managers • Seasons • Records • Draft Picks • Award Winners
Arenas	Jubilee Arena • Montreal Arena • Mount Royal Arena • Montreal Forum • Bell Centre
Affiliates	Laval Rocket (AHL)

1994–95 NHL season by team
Northeast	Boston • Buffalo • Hartford • Montreal • Ottawa • Pittsburgh • Quebec
Atlantic	Florida • New Jersey • NY Islanders • NY Rangers • Philadelphia • Tampa Bay • Washington
Central	Chicago • Dallas • Detroit • St. Louis • Toronto • Winnipeg
Pacific	Anaheim • Calgary • Edmonton • Los Angeles • San Jose • Vancouver
See also	1994 NHL Entry Draft • Stanley Cup Playoffs • Stanley Cup Finals

1994–95 Montreal Canadiens season

Contents

Offseason[]

Regular season[]

Final standings[]

Game log[]

Playoffs[]

Player stats[]

Regular season[]

Transactions[]

Draft picks[]

Farm teams[]

See also[]

References[]