The Montréal Canadiens used 28 players in the 1979-80 season, with a 57-23-0 record. Guy Lafleur led the team with 125 points (50 goals, 75 assists) in 74 games. Michel Larocque played the most games in goal (39).
| # | Player — sort by name ⇅ | GP — sort by games played ⇅ | Streak | G — sort by goals ⇅ | A — sort by assists ⇅ | PTS — sort by points ▼ | P/GP — sort by points per game ⇅ | PPG — sort by power-play goals ⇅ | SOG — sort by shots on goal ⇅ | HIT — sort by hits ⇅ | BLK — sort by blocked shots ⇅ | PIM — sort by penalty minutes ⇅ | TOI — sort by average ice time ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Larry Robinson 🇨🇦 D 28 | 72 | 🔥 3 | 14 | 61 | 75 | 1.04 | 6 | 133 | 0 | 0 | 39 | — |
| 2 | Rod Langway 🇹🇼 D 22 | 78 | 🧊 3 | 7 | 29 | 36 | 0.46 | 0 | 112 | 0 | 0 | 81 | — |
| 3 | Guy Lapointe 🇨🇦 D 32 | 45 | 🔥 1 | 6 | 20 | 26 | 0.58 | 0 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 29 | — |
| 4 | Brian Engblom 🇨🇦 D 25 | 70 | 🔥 3 | 3 | 20 | 23 | 0.33 | 0 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 43 | — |
| 5 | Serge Savard 🇨🇦 D 34 | 46 | 🧊 8 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 0.28 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 18 | — |
| 6 | Rick Chartraw 🇻🇪 D 25 | 67 | 🧊 8 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 0.18 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 35 | — |
| 7 | Gaston Gingras 🇨🇦 D 21 | 35 | 🔥 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0.29 | 2 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 18 | — |
| 8 | Gilles Lupien 🇨🇦 D 25 | 64 | 🧊 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0.12 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 109 | — |
| 9 | Morris Robinson 🇨🇦 D 22 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Team totals · 9 skaters | 80 | 44 | 159 | 203 | 2.54 | 8 | 667 | 0 | 0 | 372 |
| # | Goalie — sort by name ⇅ | GP — sort by games played ⇅ | Share of games | W — sort by wins ⇅ | GAA — sort by goals against average ⇅ | SV% — sort by save percentage ⇅ | SV — sort by saves ⇅ | GA — sort by goals against ▼ | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michel Larocque 🇨🇦 G 27 | 39 | 25 | 3.21 | 0.000 | 0 | 125 | 57:48 | |
| 2 | Denis Herron 🇨🇦 G 27 | 34 | 29 | 2.35 | 0.000 | 0 | 80 | 56:06 | |
| 3 | Richard Sevigny 🇨🇦 G 22 | 11 | 6 | 2.82 | 0.000 | 0 | 31 | 57:19 |
89% of this roster was born in Canada, against 84% across the league. The team leans on Taiwan: 4% of its players, against 0% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 94% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 25 |
|
+5 | 801 (94%) | Lafleur, Larouche, Shutt, Robinson +21 |
| Taiwan | 1 |
|
+4 | 36 (4%) | Langway |
| United States | 1 |
|
-6 | 2 (0%) | Nilan |
| Venezuela | 1 |
|
+4 | 12 (1%) | Chartraw |
Guy Lafleur led the Montréal Canadiens in scoring in 1979-80 with 125 points — 50 goals and 75 assists in 74 games. Next came Pierre Larouche (91) and Steve Shutt (89).
Guy Lafleur scored 50 goals for the Montréal Canadiens in 1979-80, 15 of them on the power play.
The Montréal Canadiens dressed 28 players in 1979-80: 25 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 328 goals.
Michel Larocque played the most games in goal for the Montréal Canadiens in 1979-80: 39 games, 25 wins, a 0.000 save percentage and a 3.21 goals against average. Denis Herron was the backup, in 34 games.
The average age was 25.3 years. Gaston Gingras was the youngest at 21, and Serge Savard the oldest at 34.
The Montréal Canadiens used 28 players in 1979-80 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 25 in Canada, 1 in Taiwan and 1 in the United States. The other 1 came from Venezuela. League-wide that season, 84% of players were born in Canada, against 89% on this roster.