Montreal Canadiens notable players and award winners

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1 Hall of Famers
2 First-round draft picks
3 Franchise scoring leaders
4 NHL awards and trophies

[edit] Hall of Famers

In the Hockey Hall of Fame, the Canadiens boast the most enshrined Hall-of-Famers with forty-two. All of their inductees are from Canada with the exception of former Defenceman Joe Hall, who was from England. Thirty-six of these players are from three separate notable dynasties: 12 from 1955-1960, 11 from 1964-1969 and 13 from 1975-1979. Howie Morenz and Georges Vézina were the first Canadiens given the honor in 1945, while Patrick Roy and Dick Duff were the last to be inducted in 2006.

Player	Position	Inducted	Player	Position	Inducted	Player	Position	Inducted
Montreal Canadiens Hall of Famers
Howie Morenz	C	1945	Bill Durnan	G	1964	Yvan Cournoyer	RW	1982
Georges Vézina	G	1945	Hector Blake	LW	1966	Ken Dryden	G	1983
Aurel Joliat	LW	1947	Ken Reardon	D	1966	Jacques Lemaire	C	1984
Newsy Lalonde	C	1950	Emile Bouchard	D	1966	Bert Olmstead	RW	1985
Joe Malone	C	1950	Elmer Lach	C	1966	Serge Savard	D	1986
Sprague Cleghorn	D	1958	Tom Johnson	D	1970	Jacques Laperriere	D	1987
Herb Gardiner	LW	1958	Jean Beliveau	C	1972	Guy Lafleur	RW	1988
Sylvio Mantha	D	1960	Bernard Geoffrion	RW	1972	Bud O'Connor	RW	1988
Maurice Richard	RW	1961	Doug Harvey	D	1973	Bob Gainey	LW	1992
Joe Hall	D	1961	Dickie Moore	LW	1974	Guy Lapointe	D	1993
George Hainsworth	G	1961	Jacques Plante	G	1978	Steve Shutt	LW	1993
Jack Laviolette	D	1962	Henri Richard	C	1979	Larry Robinson	D	1995
Didier Pitre	D	1962	Lorne "Gump" Worsley	G	1980	Patrick Roy	G	2006
Albert "Babe" Siebert	LW	1964	Frank Mahovlich	LW	1981	Dick Duff	LW	2006

[edit] First-round draft picks

1963: Garry Monahan (1st overall)
1964: Claude Chagnon (6th overall)
1965: Pierre Bouchard (5th overall)
1966: Phil Myre (5th overall)
1967: Elgin McCann (8th overall)
1968: Michel Plasse (1st overall)
1969: Rejean Houle (1st overall) & Marc Tardif (2nd overall)
1970: Ray Martynuik (5th overall) & Chuck Lefley (6th overall)
1971: Guy Lafleur (1st overall), Chuck Arnason (7th overall), & Murray Wilson (11th overall)
1972: Steve Shutt (4th overall), Michel Larocque (6th overall), Dave Gardner (8th overall), & John Van Boxmeer (14th overall)
1973: Bob Gainey (8th overall)
1974: Cam Connor (5th overall), Doug Risebrough (7th overall), Rick Chartraw (10th overall), Mario Tremblay (12th overall), & Gord McTavish (15th overall)
1975: Robin Sadler (9th overall) & Pierre Mondou (15th overall)
1976: Peter Lee (12th overall), Rod Schutt (13th overall), & Bruce Baker (18th overall)
1977: Mark Napier (10th overall) & Norm Dupont (18th overall)
1978: Danny Geoffrion (8th overall) & Dave Hunter (17th overall)
1979: None
1980: Doug Wickenheiser (1st overall)
1981: Mark Hunter (7th overall), Gilbert Delorme (18th overall), & Jan Ingman (19th overall)
1982: Alain Heroux (19th overall)

1983: Alfie Turcotte (17th overall)
1984: Petr Svoboda (5th overall) & Shayne Corson (8th overall)
1985: Jose Charbonneau (12th overall) & Tom Chorske (16th overall)
1986: Mark Pederson (15th overall)
1987: Andrew Cassels (17th overall)
1988: Eric Charron (20th overall)
1989: Lindsay Vallis (13th overall)
1990: Turner Stevenson (12th overall)
1991: Brent Bilodeau (17th overall)
1992: David Wilkie (20th overall)
1993: Saku Koivu (21st overall)
1994: Brad Brown (18th overall)
1995: Terry Ryan (8th overall)
1996: Matt Higgins (18th overall)
1997: Jason Ward (11th overall)
1998: Eric Chouinard (16th overall)
1999: None
2000: Ron Hainsey (13th overall) & Marcel Hossa (16th overall)
2001: Mike Komisarek (7th overall) & Alexander Perezhogin (25th overall)
2002: Chris Higgins (14th overall)
2003: Andrei Kostitsyn (10th overall)
2004: Kyle Chipchura (18th overall)
2005: Carey Price (5th overall)
2006: David Fischer (20th overall)

[edit] Franchise scoring leaders

These are the top-ten point-scorers in franchise history. Figures are updated after each completed NHL regular season.

Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; * = current Canadiens player

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	P/G
Guy Lafleur	RW	961	518	728	1246	1.30
Jean Beliveau	C	1125	507	712	1219	1.08
Henri Richard	C	1256	358	688	1046	.83
Maurice Richard	RW	978	544	421	965	.99
Larry Robinson	D	1202	197	686	883	.73
Yvan Cournoyer	RW	968	428	435	863	.89
Jacques Lemaire	C	853	366	469	835	.98
Steve Shutt	LW	871	408	368	776	.89
Bernie Geoffrion	RW	766	371	388	759	.99
Elmer Lach	C	664	215	408	623	.94