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1989–90 Montreal Canadiens season

NHL hockey team season

Chris Chelios

Offseason

Captain Bob Gainey retired in July 1989. The Canadiens named Guy Carbonneau and Chris Chelios co-captains, in August. Meanwhile, longtime defenceman Larry Robinson signed with the Los Angeles Kings via free-agency.

NHL draft

Montreal's draft picks at the 1989 NHL entry draft held at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Round	#	Player	College/Junior/Club team (League)
1	13	Lindsay Vallis	Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL)
2	30	Patrice Brisebois	Laval Titan (QMJHL)
2	41	Steve Larouche	Trois-Rivieres Draveurs (QMJHL)
3	51	Pierre Sevigny	Verdun Junior Canadiens (QMJHL)
4	83	Andre Racicot	Granby Bisons (QMJHL)
5	104	Marc Deschamps	Cornell University (ECAC)
7	146	Craig Ferguson	Yale University (ECAC)
8	167	Patrick Lebeau	Saint-Jean Lynx (QMJHL)
9	188	Roy Mitchell	Portland Winter Hawks (WHL)
11	230	Justin Duberman	University of North Dakota (WCHA)
12	251	Steve Cadieux	Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL)
[S](1989-nhl-supplemental-draft)	25	Craig Charron	University of Massachusetts Lowell (Hockey East)

Regular season

The Canadiens finished the regular season with only 234 goals allowed, second only to the Boston Bruins. Their power play struggled throughout the season and they finished last in power-play goals scored (54) and power-play percentage (15.88%). Although the Canadiens scored the fewest short-handed goals in the league, with 4, they only allowed 7, good enough for 4th place in the league (tied with the Buffalo Sabres and Edmonton Oilers).

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

|- |1||W||October 5, 1989||4-1 || align="left"| @ Hartford Whalers||1-0-0 |- |2||W||October 7, 1989||5–1 || align="left"| Buffalo Sabres||2–0–0 |- |3||L||October 9, 1989||0–2 || align="left"| @ Boston Bruins||2–1–0 |- |4||W||October 11, 1989||4–2 || align="left"| Boston Bruins||3–1–0 |- |5||W||October 13, 1989||4–3 OT|| align="left"| @ New Jersey Devils||4–1–0 |- |6||L||October 14, 1989||1–2 OT|| align="left"| @ Pittsburgh Penguins||4–2–0 |- |7||L||October 16, 1989||3–4 OT|| align="left"| Washington Capitals||4–3–0 |- |8||W||October 18, 1989||2–1 || align="left"| Calgary Flames||5–3–0 |- |9||L||October 20, 1989||2–6 || align="left"| @ Buffalo Sabres||5–4–0 |- |10||L||October 21, 1989||4–5 || align="left"| New Jersey Devils||5–5–0 |- |11||W||October 23, 1989||3–2 || align="left"| Hartford Whalers||6–5–0 |- |12||L||October 26, 1989||3–5 || align="left"| @ Chicago Blackhawks||6–6–0 |- |13||W||October 28, 1989||5–1 || align="left"| Pittsburgh Penguins||7–6–0 |- |14||W||October 29, 1989||5–4 || align="left"| Edmonton Oilers||8–6–0 |- |15||W||October 31, 1989||3–0 || align="left"| @ New York Islanders||9–6–0

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Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG
RW	75	51	40	91	46	35	9	0	8
LW	76	31	44	75	144	33	7	0	6
RW	80	27	32	59	27	14	3	0	2
C	68	19	36	55	37	21	1	1	3
C	59	11	31	42	56	21	4	0	1
LW	56	23	18	41	47	28	0	1	1
LW	72	21	20	41	19	3	6	0	3
D	60	5	31	36	98	20	2	0	2
C	57	15	20	35	11	13	5	0	3
D	53	9	22	31	136	20	1	2	1
C	53	12	14	26	35	-4	4	0	2
LW	57	9	15	24	28	3	1	0	0
RW	74	9	15	24	78	0	1	0	1
C/LW	70	8	16	24	59	4	1	0	1
D	44	7	14	21	25	2	5	0	1
D	54	1	19	20	41	17	0	0	0
RW	39	8	10	18	106	-8	3	0	1
D	55	3	13	16	51	1	1	0	0
D	73	1	15	16	108	24	0	0	0
D	68	3	10	13	61	18	0	0	0
D	36	2	10	12	14	11	0	0	1
RW	41	4	6	10	158	1	0	0	2
RW	34	4	2	6	61	-1	0	0	1
G	54	0	5	5	0	0	0	0	0
LW	14	3	1	4	2	2	0	0	0
D	18	0	4	4	23	1	0	0	0
C	6	2	0	2	2	1	0	0	1
C	8	0	2	2	2	-4	0	0	0
D	8	0	2	2	33	-1	0	0	0
LW	9	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0
RW	9	0	1	1	4	-1	0	0	0
G	29	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
LW	13	0	0	0	64	-2	0	0	0
G	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO	SA	SV	SV%
	3173	54	31	16	5	134	2.53	3	1524	1390	.912
	1674	29	10	12	6	94	3.37	1	770	676	.878
	13	1	0	0	0	3	13.85	0	6	3	.500
Team:	4860	80	41	28	11	231	2.85	4	2300	2069	.900

Playoffs

Scoring

Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	PPG	GWG
RW	9	7	3	10	2	1	1
LW	11	2	8	10	20	0	0
C	11	3	5	8	30	0	1
RW	11	5	1	6	10	0	0
C	11	2	3	5	6	0	0
C	11	1	4	5	6	0	0
D	10	0	5	5	7	0	0
RW	11	1	3	4	38	0	1
D	9	1	3	4	31	1	0
C	2	3	0	3	0	0	1
LW	8	2	0	2	2	0	0
LW	9	1	1	2	16	0	0
LW	3	1	1	2	0	0	1
C/LW	11	0	2	2	0	0	0
D	5	0	1	1	8	0	0
D	10	0	1	1	18	0	0
RW	11	0	1	1	8	0	0
D	11	0	1	1	16	0	0
G	11	0	1	1	0	0	0
D	9	0	0	0	2	0	0
D	6	0	0	0	10	0	0
RW	10	0	0	0	4	0	0
G	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
D	6	0	0	0	2	0	0
LW	2	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO	SA	SV	SV%
	641	11	5	6	26	2.43	1	292	266	.911
	33	1	0	0	2	3.64	0	18	16	.889
Team:	674	11	5	6	28	2.49	1	310	282	.910

References

"1989-90 NHL Summary".
"1989-90 Montreal Canadiens Schedule".
"1989-90 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com.

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