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1990–91 Montreal Canadiens season

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Division
  
2nd Adams

1990–91 record
  
39–30–11

Road record
  
16–18–6

Conference
  
3rd Wales

Home record
  
23–12–5

Goals for
  
273

The 1990–91 Montreal Canadiens season was the Canadiens' 82nd season. The season saw the Montreal Canadiens being eliminated in the Adams Division finals by the Boston Bruins.

Contents

Offseason

Co-Captain Chris Chelios was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks for Denis Savard, in August 1990. With Chelios' departure, Guy Carbonneau continued as Canadiens captain.

Mats Naslund resumes his playing career in Europe. Veteran forwards Brian Skrudland and Mike McPhee are named alternate captains.

Regular season

In terms of injuries, Patrick Roy missed the most games due to injury during the 90-91 season. Backup goalies Andre Racicot and Jean-Claude Bergeron appeared in 25 games.

  • December 12, 1990: Petr Svoboda and Toronto Maple Leafs winger Wendel Clark fell on Patrick Roy’s left knee. Roy suffered strained ligaments.
  • January 27, 1991: Donald Dufresne checked Bruins right winger Graeme Townshend. He fell on Patrick Roy’s left ankle. Roy suffered a ruptured ligament and missed fourteen games. Roy would re-injure the ankle on March 16.

    • The Canadiens finished the regular season as the league's most disciplined team, being short-handed only 282 times.

    Final standings

    Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

    Note: Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

    Divisions: PTK – Patrick, ADM – Adams

    bold – Qualified for playoffs

    Playoffs

    The Montreal Canadiens were eliminated in the Adams Division final by the Boston Bruins, four games to three.

    Regular season

    Scoring
    Goaltending

    Playoffs

    Scoring
    Goaltending

    Note:

    Pos = Position; GPI = Games played in; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; +/- = Plus/minus; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals
     Min, TOI = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T,T/OT = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

    Transactions

  • In November 1990, Brian Hayward was traded to the Minnesota North Stars for defenseman Jayson More.

    • References

    1990–91 Montreal Canadiens season Wikipedia
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