The Montréal Canadiens used 34 players in the 2008-09 season, with a 41-30-11 record. Alex Kovalev led the team with 65 points (26 goals, 39 assists) in 78 games. Carey Price played the most games in goal (52).
| # | 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 | Alex Kovalev 🇷🇺 RW 36 | 78 | 🧊 1 | 26 | 39 | 65 | 0.83 | 11 | 209 | 56 | 20 | 74 | 19:25 |
| 2 | Saku Koivu 🇫🇮 C 34 | 65 | 🧊 1 | 16 | 34 | 50 | 0.77 | 5 | 123 | 43 | 21 | 44 | 17:03 |
| 3 | Andrei Kostitsyn 🇧🇾 LW 24 | 74 | 🧊 1 | 23 | 18 | 41 | 0.55 | 6 | 169 | 124 | 23 | 50 | 15:35 |
| 4 | Alex Tanguay 🇨🇦 LW 29 | 50 | 🧊 3 | 16 | 25 | 41 | 0.82 | 5 | 76 | 47 | 13 | 34 | 16:05 |
| 5 | Tomas Plekanec 🇨🇿 C 26 | 80 | 🧊 8 | 20 | 19 | 39 | 0.49 | 6 | 202 | 53 | 38 | 54 | 17:15 |
| 6 | Robert Lang 🇨🇿 C 38 | 50 | 🔥 3 | 18 | 21 | 39 | 0.78 | 8 | 101 | 17 | 24 | 36 | 16:52 |
| 7 | Maxim Lapierre 🇨🇦 C 24 | 79 | 🧊 4 | 15 | 13 | 28 | 0.35 | 1 | 165 | 130 | 52 | 76 | 14:47 |
| 8 | Guillaume Latendresse 🇨🇦 LW 21 | 56 | 🔥 1 | 14 | 12 | 26 | 0.46 | 1 | 117 | 140 | 12 | 45 | 13:36 |
| 9 | Chris Higgins 🇺🇸 LW 25 | 57 | 🧊 2 | 12 | 11 | 23 | 0.40 | 2 | 151 | 79 | 39 | 22 | 16:59 |
| 10 | Sergei Kostitsyn 🇧🇾 LW 22 | 56 | 🧊 7 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 0.41 | 5 | 74 | 49 | 21 | 64 | 14:08 |
| 11 | Tom Kostopoulos 🇨🇦 RW 30 | 78 | 🧊 8 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 0.28 | 0 | 121 | 167 | 42 | 106 | 14:08 |
| 12 | Matt D'Agostini 🇨🇦 RW 22 | 53 | 🧊 1 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 0.40 | 3 | 116 | 48 | 26 | 16 | 13:24 |
| 13 | Mathieu Dandenault 🇨🇦 RW 33 | 41 | 🧊 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 0.29 | 0 | 46 | 42 | 29 | 17 | 11:45 |
| 14 | Max Pacioretty 🇺🇸 LW 20 | 34 | 🧊 4 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 0.32 | 1 | 57 | 44 | 19 | 27 | 12:37 |
| 15 | Steve Begin 🇨🇦 LW 30 | 42 | 🧊 9 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 0.24 | 0 | 65 | 119 | 26 | 27 | 10:51 |
| 16 | Glen Metropolit 🇨🇦 C 34 | 21 | 🧊 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.14 | 0 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 11:37 |
| 17 | Kyle Chipchura 🇨🇦 C 23 | 13 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0.23 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 10:18 |
| 18 | Georges Laraque 🇨🇦 RW 32 | 33 | 🧊 20 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.06 | 0 | 15 | 42 | 5 | 61 | 7:38 |
| 19 | Gregory Stewart 🇨🇦 LW 22 | 20 | 🧊 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.05 | 0 | 16 | 38 | 5 | 32 | 8:36 |
| 20 | Ben Maxwell 🇨🇦 C 21 | 7 | 🧊 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9:55 |
| Team totals · 20 skaters | 82 | 203 | 257 | 460 | 5.61 | 54 | 1849 | 1260 | 430 | 805 |
| # | 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 | Carey Price 🇨🇦 G 21 | 52 | 23 | 2.75 | 0.905 | 1370 | 143 | — | |
| 2 | Jaroslav Halak 🇸🇰 G 23 | 34 | 18 | 2.71 | 0.915 | 985 | 92 | — | |
| 3 | Marc Denis 🇨🇦 G 31 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 | 0.857 | 6 | 1 | — |
53% of this roster was born in Canada, against 52% across the league. The team leans on Belarus: 6% of its players, against 0% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 34% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 18 |
|
+1 | 215 (34%) | Tanguay, Lapierre, Latendresse, Gorges +14 |
| United States | 6 |
|
-4 | 71 (11%) | Higgins, Schneider, Pacioretty, Komisarek +2 |
| Czechia | 3 |
|
+3 | 111 (17%) | Plekanec, Lang, Hamrlik |
| Belarus | 2 |
|
+6 | 64 (10%) | Kostitsyn, Kostitsyn |
| Russia | 2 |
|
+3 | 129 (20%) | Kovalev, Markov |
| Switzerland | 1 |
|
+2 | 1 (0%) | Weber |
| Finland | 1 |
|
-1 | 50 (8%) | Koivu |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
+1 | 0 | Halak |
Alex Kovalev led the Montréal Canadiens in scoring in 2008-09 with 65 points — 26 goals and 39 assists in 78 games. Next came Andrei Markov (64) and Saku Koivu (50).
Alex Kovalev scored 26 goals for the Montréal Canadiens in 2008-09, 11 of them on the power play.
The Montréal Canadiens dressed 34 players in 2008-09: 31 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 242 goals.
Carey Price played the most games in goal for the Montréal Canadiens in 2008-09: 52 games, 23 wins, a 0.905 save percentage and a 2.75 goals against average. Jaroslav Halak was the backup, in 34 games.
Andrei Markov averaged 24:37 of ice time per game for the Montréal Canadiens in 2008-09, the most on the roster.
The average age was 27.9 years. Max Pacioretty was the youngest at 20, and Mathieu Schneider the oldest at 39.
The Montréal Canadiens used 34 players in 2008-09 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 18 in Canada, 6 in the United States and 3 in Czechia. The other 7 came from Belarus, Russia, Switzerland, Finland and Slovakia. League-wide that season, 52% of players were born in Canada, against 53% on this roster.