1994–95 Montreal Canadiens season

The 1994–95 Montreal Canadiens season was the club's 86th season of play. This was the first season since 1969–70 that the Canadiens failed to qualify for the playoffs. 
==Offseason==
In the entry draft, the Canadiens selected Brad Brown a defenceman with their first-round pick, eighteenth over-all. The Canadiens were more fortunate with their second-round pick, selecting Jose Theodore forty-fourth over-all.
==Regular season==
The season started later and was abbreviated by a lockout of the players by the NHL owners. The Canadiens played only 48 games. It was a forgettable season for the Canadiens and their fans, as the team missed the playoffs for the first time in 25 years. The Canadiens only won 3 of 24 games on the road. Patrick Roy, winning, nothing else, p.338, by Michel Roy, translated by Charles Phillips, 2008, John Wiley & Sons, Mississauga, ON, ISBN 978-0-470-15616-2 Already gone at the season's debut were members of the formidable 1992-93 Stanley-Cup champion team, including Guy Carbonneau, Kevin Haller, Stephan Lebeau and Denis Savard. On February 9, more players from the 1992-93 team departed, as Eric Desjardins, Gilbert Dionne and John LeClair were traded to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Mark Recchi. Another major trade nearly two months later on April 5 would send Craig Darby, Mathieu Schneider and fan favorite Kirk Muller to the New York Islanders in exchange for Vladimir Malakhov and Pierre Turgeon. After a 7-5-4 start, Montreal won only 11 of its final 32 games, going 11-18-3. It was the first season of Patrick Roy's career in which he lost more games than he won.
===Final standings===
===Game log===
# 	R	Date 	Score 	Opponent 	Record
1 	L	Jan 21, 1995	2–5 	@ New York Rangers 	0–1–0
2 	W	Jan 25, 1995	2–0 	Washington Capitals 	1–1–0
3 	W	Jan 28, 1995	5–1 	New Jersey Devils 	2–1–0
4 	T	Jan 29, 1995	2–2 OT	Philadelphia Flyers 	2–1–1
5 	L	Jan 31, 1995	1–4 	@ Tampa Bay Lightning	2–2–1
6 	T	Feb 2, 1995 	1–1 OT	@ Florida Panthers 	2–2–2
7 	W	Feb 4, 1995 	4–2 	New York Islanders 	3–2–2
8 	L	Feb 7, 1995 	4–7 	@ Boston Bruins 	3–3–2
9 	W	Feb 8, 1995 	4–2 	@ Ottawa Senators 	4–3–2
10	L	Feb 11, 1995	1–3 	@ Pittsburgh Penguins	4–4–2
11	T	Feb 13, 1995	2–2 OT	Hartford Whalers 	4–4–3
12	L	Feb 15, 1995	1–4 	@ Hartford Whalers 	4–5–3
13	T	Feb 16, 1995	2–2 OT	@ New York Rangers 	4–5–4
14	W	Feb 18, 1995	5–2 	New York Rangers 	5–5–4
15	W	Feb 20, 1995	3–2 OT	New York Islanders 	6–5–4
16	W	Feb 23, 1995	5–2 	@ Florida Panthers 	7–5–4
17	L	Feb 25, 1995	0–7 	Philadelphia Flyers 	7–6–4
18	L	Feb 27, 1995	1–6 	@ New Jersey Devils 	7–7–4
19	L	Feb 28, 1995	1–2 	@ New York Islanders 	7–8–4
20	L	Mar 4, 1995 	1–5 	@ Washington Capitals	7–9–4
21	L	Mar 5, 1995 	1–4 	@ Buffalo Sabres 	7–10–4
22	T	Mar 8, 1995 	2–2 OT	Buffalo Sabres 	7–10–5
23	W	Mar 11, 1995	3–1 	New York Rangers 	8–10–5
24	L	Mar 13, 1995	2–4 	@ Pittsburgh Penguins	8–11–5
25	W	Mar 15, 1995	8–5 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	9–11–5
26	L	Mar 16, 1995	0–6 	@ Boston Bruins 	9–12–5
27	W	Mar 18, 1995	5–4 	Quebec Nordiques 	10–12–5
28	L	Mar 20, 1995	4–8 	@ Philadelphia Flyers	10–13–5
29	L	Mar 22, 1995	2–3 	Florida Panthers 	10–14–5
30	W	Mar 25, 1995	3–1 	Ottawa Senators 	11–14–5
31	L	Mar 27, 1995	2–3 OT	@ Tampa Bay Lightning	11–15–5
32	L	Apr 1, 1995 	1–4 	@ New Jersey Devils 	11–16–5
33	W	Apr 3, 1995 	5–4 	@ Ottawa Senators 	12–16–5
34	W	Apr 5, 1995 	6–5 	Quebec Nordiques 	13–16–5
35	L	Apr 6, 1995 	2–3 	@ Quebec Nordiques 	13–17–5
36	W	Apr 8, 1995 	2–1 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	14–17–5
37	W	Apr 10, 1995	2–1 	New Jersey Devils 	15–17–5
38	L	Apr 12, 1995	2–3 	@ Philadelphia Flyers	15–18–5
39	L	Apr 14, 1995	3–4 OT	@ Hartford Whalers 	15–19–5
40	L	Apr 15, 1995	2–3 	Boston Bruins 	15–20–5
41	W	Apr 17, 1995	5–2 	Washington Capitals 	16–20–5
42	W	Apr 19, 1995	4–1 	Ottawa Senators 	17–20–5
43	W	Apr 22, 1995	3–1 	Tampa Bay Lightning 	18–20–5
44	L	Apr 24, 1995	3–4 	Hartford Whalers 	18–21–5
45	T	Apr 26, 1995	1–1 OT	@ Quebec Nordiques 	18–21–6
46	T	Apr 29, 1995	3–3 OT	Buffalo Sabres 	18–21–7
47	L	May 1, 1995 	0–2 	@ Buffalo Sabres 	18–22–7
48	L	May 3, 1995 	2–4 	Boston Bruins 	18–23–7
==Playoffs==
The Canadiens did not qualify for the playoffs.
==Player stats==
===Regular season===
;Scoring
Player	Pos	GP	G 	A 	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG
 	RW 	39	14	29	43 	16 	-3 	8 	0 	1
 	C 	48	10	30	40 	42 	15 	4 	0 	4
 	LW 	45	7 	18	25 	16 	7 	1 	1 	2
 	C 	15	11	9 	20 	4 	12 	2 	0 	2
 	RW 	48	10	10	20 	15 	5 	1 	0 	0
 	D 	30	5 	15	20 	49 	-3 	2 	0 	0
 	LW 	37	12	7 	19 	27 	5 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	33	8 	11	19 	33 	-21	3 	0 	1
 	LW 	41	8 	8 	16 	8 	-7 	1 	0 	1
 	D 	35	4 	8 	12 	26 	-2 	0 	0 	2
 	D 	47	4 	7 	11 	42 	-1 	2 	0 	1
 	D 	48	3 	7 	10 	152	-13	0 	0 	0
 	C 	22	4 	5 	9 	4 	-3 	0 	0 	1
 	D 	45	3 	5 	8 	40 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	41	6 	1 	7 	86 	0 	0 	0 	1
 	D 	21	5 	2 	7 	34 	-3 	3 	0 	0
 	D 	9 	0 	6 	6 	2 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	12	2 	3 	5 	4 	-7 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	9 	1 	4 	5 	10 	-1 	1 	0 	0
 	D 	14	1 	4 	5 	14 	-2 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	30	1 	4 	5 	12 	-7 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	33	0 	5 	5 	8 	-10	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	24	3 	1 	4 	6 	-1 	0 	0 	1
 	LW 	6 	0 	3 	3 	2 	-3 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	20	1 	1 	2 	63 	-5 	0 	0 	1
 	C 	10	0 	2 	2 	0 	-5 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	6 	1 	0 	1 	0 	-1 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	39	1 	0 	1 	18 	-13	0 	0 	0
 	D 	5 	0 	1 	1 	5 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	43	0 	1 	1 	20 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	8 	0 	1 	1 	0 	-1 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	6 	0 	0 	0 	17 	-1 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	5 	0 	0 	0 	2 	-2 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	3 	0 	0 	0 	4 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	9 	0 	0 	0 	34 	-2 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	19	0 	0 	0 	15 	-5 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	7 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
;Goaltending
Player	MIN 	GP	W 	L 	T	GA 	GAA 	SO	SA 	SV 	SV%
 	2566	43	17	20	6	127	2.97	1 	1357	1230	.906
 	346 	7 	1 	3 	1	18 	3.12	0 	172 	154 	.895
Team: 	2912	48	18	23	7	145	2.99	1 	1529	1384	.905
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes; PPG=Power-play goals; SHG=Short-handed goals; GWG=Game-winning goals
      MIN=Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; SO = Shutouts; SA=Shots Against; SV=Shots saved; SV% = Save Percentage; 
==Transactions==
*February 9, 1995: Montreal Canadiens traded John LeClair, along with Éric Desjardins and Gilbert Dionne to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Mark Recchi and Philadelphia's 3rd round choice (Martin Hohenberger) in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. LeClair gelled immediately with new line-mate Eric Lindros and quickly became one of the NHL's most feared goal scorers.
*April 5, 1995: Montreal Canadiens obtain Pierre Turgeon and Vladimir Malakhov from the New York Islanders for Kirk Muller, Mathieu Schneider and Craig Darby.NHL trade deadline: Deals since 1980 | Habs Inside/Out
==Draft picks==
Round	Pick	Player 	Nationality	College/junior/club team
1 	18 	Brad Brown (Defence) 	 	North Bay Centennials (OHL)
2 	44 	Jose Theodore (Goaltender)	 	Saint-Jean Lynx (QMJHL)
 http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl1994e.html
==Farm teams==
==See also==
* 1994–95 NHL season
==References==
*Canadiens on Hockey Database
*Canadiens on NHL Reference
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