March 25th, 1983
Montreal Canadiens Final Stats and Analysis
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| Goals F per Game | 2.30 | 28th |
| Goals A per Game | 2.72 | 15th |
| Shots F per Game | 27 | 26th |
| Shots A per Game | 32 | 22nd |
| PP % | 13.4% | 26th |
| PK % | 86.1% | 3rd |
| FO % | 51.1% | 7th |
| Shots Blocked | 913 | 12th |
| Hits | 1357 | 9th |
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| Final 1982-83 Season |
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| Goals F per Game | 2.38 | 27th |
| Goals A per Game | 2.54 | 11th |
| Shots F per Game | 27 | 25th |
| Shots A per Game | 30 | 13th |
| PP % | 15.2% | 19th |
| PK % | 87.0% | 3rd |
| FO % | 51.0% | 8th |
| Shots Blocked | 1203 | 12th |
| Hits | 1867 | 2nd |
The Canadiens had modest improvements in pretty much all areas in the final 22 games despite missing some players to injury. Hopefully by going 13-8-1 in the final 22 games will bode well with a better start to the 1983-84 season. We finished 5 points out of a playoff spot, as the last wild card team had 88. I am thinking with the some youthful development and another good season from G
Wilf Nestor, we can be a playoff team next season.
| Goalies | Age | Wins | Losses | T/OL | SO | GAA | SV% |
| Nestor, Wilf | 28 | 33 | 26 | 8 | 7 | 2.36 | 0.919 |
| Mertel, Stefan | 30 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2.57 | 0.913 |
| Zadina, Tomas | 20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4.35 | 0.896 |
After having a terrible start to the season,
Wilf Nestor had a great finish. Nestor should provide Montreal with solid goaltending for years, hopefully the youthful defense and offense will start to develop.
| Defenseman | Age | GP | Goals | Assists | Points | PIMs | +/- |
| Harper, Jonathan | 32 | 82 | 16 | 31 | 47 | 28 | -12 |
| Engstrom, Dennis | 32 | 82 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 50 | 0 |
| Duclos, Tyler | 21 | 72 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 95 | -10 |
| Lambright, Lance | 29 | 77 | 5 | 18 | 23 | 36 | -7 |
| Babin, Chris | 34 | 72 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 34 | 2 |
| Badura, Tomas | 21 | 47 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 16 |
| Steinberg, Kevin | 25 | 25 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| Svec, Jakub | 20 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Breuer, Oscar | 31 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | -9 |
The Canadiens had pretty much a injury free season with the defensive core. I expect we will have 3 defensemen in the fold that will be 22 or under next season.
| Forwards | Age | GP | Goals | Assists | Points | PIMs | +/- |
| Callander, Riley | 27 | 80 | 38 | 32 | 70 | 73 | 8 |
| x- Spencer, Bryce | 21 | 85 | 25 | 30 | 55 | 89 | 5 |
| Berry, Zach | 36 | 82 | 15 | 39 | 54 | 50 | 6 |
| Kramar, Josef | 20 | 80 | 17 | 24 | 41 | 77 | -4 |
| Hebert, Samuel | 21 | 78 | 7 | 27 | 34 | 58 | -10 |
| Kaminsky, Quincy | 39 | 61 | 9 | 18 | 27 | 35 | 15 |
| Blaney, Ralph | 33 | 72 | 13 | 9 | 22 | 14 | -6 |
| Hendriksson, Robert | 21 | 70 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 10 | -12 |
| Archer, Ben | 21 | 45 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 30 | -3 |
| Walsh, Andrew | 20 | 53 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 45 | -7 |
| Wolf, Filip | 36 | 82 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 26 | -8 |
| Axelsson, Jakob | 20 | 55 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 18 | -7 |
| Brueggeman, Cory | 20 | 32 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | -3 |
| McFatridge, Eric | 21 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 8 |
| Kozlov, Andrey | 33 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | -4 |
| Laureano, Brayden | 20 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | -2 |
| Martin, Kevin | 29 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | -2 |
| Fleury, Samuel | 20 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 0 |
| Gustavsson, Elias | 34 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | -1 |
The Canadiens did have significant injuries to
Quincy Kaminsky and
Ben Archer in the later part of the season. We did make a trade sending C
Herman Hedberg to Anaheim for C
Bryce Spencer. Spencer had 6 goals and 18 points in 22 games centering the 2nd line.