Division 4th Northeast 2003–04 record 41–30–7 Road record 18–17–3–3 | Conference 7th Eastern Home record 23–13–4–1 Goals for 208 | |
The 2003–04 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's 95th season of play, 87th in the National Hockey League. The Canadiens returned to the playoffs this season and made it to the Eastern Conference Semi-finals after winning the Eastern Conference Quarter-finals against the Boston Bruins, 4–3, before being eliminated by the eventual Stanley Cup champions, the Tampa Bay Lightning, 4–0.
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Heritage Classic
The Heritage Classic was an outdoor ice hockey game played on November 22, 2003, in Edmonton, Alberta, between the Edmonton Oilers and the Montreal Canadiens. It was the second NHL outdoor game and the first regular season outdoor game in the history of the NHL, and was modeled after the success of the "cold war" game between the University of Michigan and Michigan State University in 2001.
The first NHL game to be played outdoors was in 1991 when the Los Angeles Kings played the New York Rangers in an exhibition game outside Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The event took place in Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium in front of a crowd of 57,167, the largest number of people to ever watch a live NHL game, despite temperatures of close to −18 °C, −30 °C (−22 °F) with wind chill. It was held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Edmonton Oilers joining the NHL in 1979.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) television broadcast also set the record for most viewers of a single NHL game with 2.747 million nationwide. This was the first NHL game broadcast in HDTV on CBC.
Final standings
Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTL = Overtime loss; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points
Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.
Divisions: AT – Atlantic, NE – Northeast, SE – Southeast
Z- Clinched Conference; Y- Clinched Division; X- Clinched Playoff spot
Playoffs
Montréal canadiens -vs- Bruins april 7 match no.1 canadiens 0, bruins 3 april 9 match no.2 canadiens 1, bruins 2 april 11 match no.3 canadiens 3, bruins 2 april 13 match no.4 canadiens 3, bruins 4 april 15 match no.5 canadiens 5, bruins 1 april 17 match no.6 canadiens 5, bruins 2 april 19 match no.7 canadiens 2, bruins 0
Montéal canadiens -vs- Lightning april 23 match no.1 canadiens 0, lightning 4 april 25 match no.2 canadiens 1, lightning 3 april 27 match no.3 canadiens 3, lightning 4 april 29 match no.4 canadiens 1, lightning 3
Regular season
Playoffs
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 goalsMin, 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;
Roster
Forwards:
11 - Saku Koivu
15 - Darren Langdon
17 - Jason Ward
20 - Richard Zednik
22 - Steve Bégin
24 - Andreas Dackell
25 - Chad Kilger
26 - Pierre Dagenais
27 - Alex Kovalev
32 - Gordie Dwyer
34 - Jim Dowd
35 - Tomas Plekanec
37 - Niklas Sundstrom
38 - Jan Bulis
46 - Benoit Gratton
71 - Mike Ribeiro
73 - Michael Ryder
76 - Jozef Balej
81 - Marcel Hossa
82 - Donald Audette
88 - Chris Higgins
90 - Joé Juneau
94 - Yanic Perreault
Defencemen:
5 - Stephane Quintal
8 - Mike Komisarek
28 - Karl Dykhuis
43 - Patrice Brisebois
44 - Sheldon Souray
51 - Francis Bouillon
52 - Craig Rivet
65 - Ron Hainsey
79 - Andrei Markov
Goaltenders:
30 - Mathieu Garon
60 - José Théodore