1963–64 Montreal Canadiens season

1963–64 Montreal Canadiens
Prince of Wales Trophy Winners
1963–64 record	36-21-13
Goals for	209
Goals against	167
Team information
General Manager	Frank J. Selke
Coach	Toe Blake
Captain	Jean Beliveau
Arena	Montreal Forum
Team leaders
Goals	Jean Beliveau (28)
Assists	Jean Beliveau (50)
Points	Jean Beliveau (78)
Penalties in minutes	Terry Harper (149)
Wins	Charlie Hodge (33)
Goals against average	Charlie Hodge (2.26)
<1962–63	1964–65>

The 1963–64 Montreal Canadiens season was the club's 55th season of play. The team placed first in the regular season to qualify for the playoffs. The Canadiens would make it to the finals, but would lose to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PIM	Pts
Montreal Canadiens	70	36	21	13	209	167	982	85
Chicago Black Hawks	70	36	22	12	218	169	1116	84
Toronto Maple Leafs	70	33	25	12	192	172	928	78
Detroit Red Wings	70	30	29	11	191	204	771	71
New York Rangers	70	22	38	10	186	242	715	54
Boston Bruins	70	18	40	12	170	212	858	48

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Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes
Teams that qualified for playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Game log

#	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	T	October 8, 1963	4–4	@ Boston Bruins	0–0–1
2	W	October 12, 1963	6–2	New York Rangers	1–0–1
3	L	October 16, 1963	2–4	Toronto Maple Leafs	1–1–1
4	W	October 19, 1963	2–0	Boston Bruins	2–1–1
5	L	October 20, 1963	3–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks	2–2–1
6	T	October 26, 1963	1–1	Chicago Black Hawks	2–2–2
7	W	October 27, 1963	6–4	@ Detroit Red Wings	3–2–2
8	L	October 30, 1963	3–6	@ Toronto Maple Leafs	3–3–2
9	W	November 2, 1963	5–1	Detroit Red Wings	4–3–2
10	W	November 3, 1963	5–3	@ New York Rangers	5–3–2
11	T	November 7, 1963	2–2	Chicago Black Hawks	5–3–3
12	W	November 9, 1963	4–2	New York Rangers	6–3–3
13	L	November 10, 1963	0–3	@ Detroit Red Wings	6–4–3
14	T	November 13, 1963	2–2	Toronto Maple Leafs	6–4–4
15	L	November 16, 1963	2–5	Chicago Black Hawks	6–5–4
16	W	November 17, 1963	3–2	@ Boston Bruins	7–5–4
17	W	November 20, 1963	3–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs	8–5–4
18	L	November 24, 1963	3–7	@ Chicago Black Hawks	8–6–4
19	W	November 28, 1963	7–3	@ Detroit Red Wings	9–6–4
20	T	November 30, 1963	0–0	Boston Bruins	9–6–5
21	W	December 1, 1963	3–1	@ Boston Bruins	10–6–5
22	L	December 4, 1963	0–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs	10–7–5
23	W	December 5, 1963	4–2	New York Rangers	11–7–5
24	W	December 7, 1963	5–2	Detroit Red Wings	12–7–5
25	L	December 8, 1963	0–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks	12–8–5
26	W	December 12, 1963	6–4	New York Rangers	13–8–5
27	W	December 14, 1963	3–1	Boston Bruins	14–8–5
28	L	December 15, 1963	2–4	@ New York Rangers	14–9–5
29	W	December 18, 1963	7–3	Toronto Maple Leafs	15–9–5
30	W	December 21, 1963	3–2	Chicago Black Hawks	16–9–5
31	W	December 22, 1963	6–1	@ Detroit Red Wings	17–9–5
32	L	December 25, 1963	1–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks	17–10–5
33	T	December 28, 1963	1–1	Detroit Red Wings	17–10–6
34	W	December 29, 1963	6–2	@ New York Rangers	18–10–6
35	T	January 1, 1964	3–3	@ Boston Bruins	18–10–7
36	W	January 4, 1964	5–1	Boston Bruins	19–10–7
37	T	January 5, 1964	3–3	@ Detroit Red Wings	19–10–8
38	L	January 8, 1964	1–6	@ Toronto Maple Leafs	19–11–8
39	W	January 12, 1964	2–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks	20–11–8
40	W	January 16, 1964	1–0	Chicago Black Hawks	21–11–8
41	L	January 18, 1964	0–2	Detroit Red Wings	21–12–8
42	T	January 19, 1964	1–1	@ Boston Bruins	21–12–9
43	W	January 22, 1964	3–0	@ Toronto Maple Leafs	22–12–9
44	W	January 23, 1964	4–2	New York Rangers	23–12–9
45	L	January 25, 1964	0–6	Boston Bruins	23–13–9
46	T	January 26, 1964	2–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks	23–13–10
47	W	January 29, 1964	2–1	Toronto Maple Leafs	24–13–10
48	W	February 1, 1964	9–3	Detroit Red Wings	25–13–10
49	L	February 2, 1964	2–4	@ New York Rangers	25–14–10
50	W	February 5, 1964	2–0	@ Toronto Maple Leafs	26–14–10
51	W	February 8, 1964	8–2	@ New York Rangers	27–14–10
52	T	February 9, 1964	4–4	@ Boston Bruins	27–14–11
53	W	February 12, 1964	4–0	Toronto Maple Leafs	28–14–11
54	L	February 15, 1964	1–4	Detroit Red Wings	28–15–11
55	W	February 16, 1964	5–2	@ Detroit Red Wings	29–15–11
56	W	February 20, 1964	3–2	Boston Bruins	30–15–11
57	W	February 22, 1964	3–1	Chicago Black Hawks	31–15–11
58	L	February 23, 1964	2–3	@ Detroit Red Wings	31–16–11
59	W	February 26, 1964	1–0	Toronto Maple Leafs	32–16–11
60	W	February 29, 1964	4–0	New York Rangers	33–16–11
61	L	March 1, 1964	3–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks	33–17–11
62	L	March 5, 1964	5–7	Detroit Red Wings	33–18–11
63	L	March 7, 1964	2–3	New York Rangers	33–19–11
64	T	March 8, 1964	0–0	@ New York Rangers	33–19–12
65	L	March 11, 1964	0–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs	33–20–12
66	W	March 14, 1964	4–3	Chicago Black Hawks	34–20–12
67	L	March 15, 1964	1–3	@ Boston Bruins	34–21–12
68	T	March 18, 1964	2–2	Toronto Maple Leafs	34–21–13
69	W	March 21, 1964	5–1	Boston Bruins	35–21–13
70	W	March 22, 1964	2–1	@ New York Rangers	36–21–13

Playoffs

Finals

• March 26, 1964, Toronto Maple Leafs 2 - 0
• March 28, 1964, Toronto Maple Leafs 1 - 2
• March 31, 1964, at Toronto Maple Leafs 3 - 2
• April 2, 1964, at Toronto Maple Leafs 3 - 5
• April 4, 1964, Toronto Maple Leafs 4 - 2 3
• April 7, 1964, at Toronto Maple Leafs 0 - 3 3
• April 9, 1964, Toronto Maple Leafs 1 - 3^[2]

Player stats

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Beliveau, JeanJean Beliveau	C	68	28	50	78	42
Rousseau, BobbyBobby Rousseau	RW	70	25	31	56	32
Richard, HenriHenri Richard	C	66	14	39	53	73
Ferguson, JohnJohn Ferguson	LW	59	18	27	45	125
Balon, DaveDave Balon	LW	70	24	18	42	80
Geoffrion, BernieBernie Geoffrion	RW	55	21	18	39	41
Tremblay, GillesGilles Tremblay	LW	61	22	15	37	21
Provost, ClaudeClaude Provost	RW	68	15	17	32	37
Laperriere, JacquesJacques Laperriere	D	65	2	28	30	102
Backstrom, RalphRalph Backstrom	C	70	8	21	29	41
Tremblay, J.C.J.C. Tremblay	D	70	5	16	21	24
Hicke, BillBill Hicke	RW	48	11	9	20	41
Harper, TerryTerry Harper	D	70	2	15	17	149
Berenson, RedRed Berenson	C	69	7	9	16	12
Talbot, Jean-GuyJean-Guy Talbot	D	66	1	13	14	83
Boudrias, AndreAndre Boudrias	LW	4	1	4	5	2
Cournoyer, YvanYvan Cournoyer	RW	5	4	0	4	0
Larose, ClaudeClaude Larose	RW	21	1	1	2	43
Watson, BryanBryan Watson	D	39	0	2	2	18
Harris, TedTed Harris	D	4	0	1	1	0
Roberts, JimmyJimmy Roberts	D/RW	15	0	1	1	2
Gauthier, JeanJean Gauthier	D	1	0	0	0	2
Gray, TerryTerry Gray	RW	4	0	0	0	6
Hanna, JohnJohn Hanna	D	6	0	0	0	2
Hicks, WayneWayne Hicks	RW	2	0	0	0	0
Hodge, CharlieCharlie Hodge	G	62	0	0	0	2
Morissette, Jean-GuyJean-Guy Morissette	G	1	0	0	0	0
Reaume, MarcMarc Reaume	D	3	0	0	0	2
Rochefort, LeonLeon Rochefort	RW	3	0	0	0	0
Worsley, GumpGump Worsley	G	8	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Hodge, CharlieCharlie Hodge	3720	62	33	18	11	140	2.26	8
Worsley, GumpGump Worsley	444	8	3	2	2	22	2.97	1
Morissette, Jean-GuyJean-Guy Morissette	36	1	0	1	0	4	6.67	0
Team:	4200	70	36	21	13	166	2.37	9

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Provost, ClaudeClaude Provost	RW	7	2	2	4	22
Backstrom, RalphRalph Backstrom	C	7	2	1	3	8
Tremblay, J.C.J.C. Tremblay	D	7	2	1	3	9
Beliveau, JeanJean Beliveau	C	5	2	0	2	18
Balon, DaveDave Balon	LW	7	1	1	2	25
Geoffrion, BernieBernie Geoffrion	RW	7	1	1	2	4
Laperriere, JacquesJacques Laperriere	D	7	1	1	2	8
Richard, HenriHenri Richard	C	7	1	1	2	9
Rousseau, BobbyBobby Rousseau	RW	7	1	1	2	2
Hicke, BillBill Hicke	RW	7	0	2	2	2
Talbot, Jean-GuyJean-Guy Talbot	D	7	0	2	2	10
Larose, ClaudeClaude Larose	RW	2	1	0	1	0
Ferguson, JohnJohn Ferguson	LW	7	0	1	1	25
Roberts, JimmyJimmy Roberts	D/RW	7	0	1	1	14
Berenson, RedRed Berenson	C	7	0	0	0	4
Harper, TerryTerry Harper	D	7	0	0	0	6
Hodge, CharlieCharlie Hodge	G	7	0	0	0	0
Tremblay, GillesGilles Tremblay	LW	2	0	0	0	0
Watson, BryanBryan Watson	D	6	0	0	0	2

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Hodge, CharlieCharlie Hodge	420	7	3	4	16	2.29	1
Team:	420	7	3	4	16	2.29	1

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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;

Awards and records

Transactions

• June 4, 1963 - Jacques Plante is traded to the New York Rangers, along with Phil Goyette and Don Marshall, in exchange for Gump Worsley, Dave Balon, Leon Rochefort and Len Ronson.

Roster

See also

• 1963–64 NHL season

References

• Canadiens on Hockey Database
• Canadiens on NHL Reference

1. ^ National Hockey League Official Guide and Record Book 2006, p.161, Dan Diamond & Associates, Toronto, Ontario, ISBN 0-920445-98-5
2. ^ http://www.databasehockey.com/teams/teamscores.htm?tm=MON&yr=1963
3. ^ "1963-64 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/MTL/1964.html. Retrieved 2009-05-28. 

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