The Montréal Canadiens used 32 players in the 2005-06 season, with a 42-31-9 record. Alex Kovalev led the team with 65 points (23 goals, 42 assists) in 69 games. Jose Theodore played the most games in goal (38).
| # | 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 33 | 69 | 🔥 1 | 23 | 42 | 65 | 0.94 | 9 | 206 | 46 | 23 | 76 | 19:28 |
| 2 | Saku Koivu 🇫🇮 C 31 | 72 | 🔥 2 | 17 | 45 | 62 | 0.86 | 5 | 138 | 41 | 22 | 70 | 18:31 |
| 3 | Michael Ryder 🇨🇦 RW 26 | 81 | 🔥 1 | 30 | 25 | 55 | 0.68 | 18 | 243 | 111 | 22 | 40 | 16:10 |
| 4 | Mike Ribeiro 🇨🇦 C 26 | 79 | 🔥 1 | 16 | 35 | 51 | 0.65 | 8 | 130 | 51 | 25 | 36 | 16:34 |
| 5 | Jan Bulis 🇨🇿 C 28 | 73 | 🔥 1 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 0.55 | 6 | 131 | 105 | 18 | 50 | 15:37 |
| 6 | Chris Higgins 🇺🇸 LW 22 | 80 | 🧊 4 | 23 | 15 | 38 | 0.47 | 7 | 148 | 67 | 41 | 26 | 14:24 |
| 7 | Richard Zednik 🇸🇰 RW 30 | 67 | 🧊 2 | 16 | 14 | 30 | 0.45 | 6 | 161 | 76 | 33 | 48 | 15:46 |
| 8 | Tomas Plekanec 🇨🇿 C 23 | 67 | 🔥 3 | 9 | 20 | 29 | 0.43 | 1 | 99 | 37 | 34 | 32 | 13:15 |
| 9 | Steve Begin 🇨🇦 LW 27 | 76 | 🧊 2 | 11 | 12 | 23 | 0.30 | 1 | 134 | 202 | 64 | 113 | 14:18 |
| 10 | Radek Bonk 🇨🇿 C 30 | 61 | 🧊 6 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 0.34 | 0 | 76 | 52 | 57 | 52 | 15:09 |
| 11 | Mathieu Dandenault 🇨🇦 RW 30 | 82 | 🧊 4 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 0.24 | 0 | 101 | 88 | 101 | 83 | 18:37 |
| 12 | Alexander Perezhogin 🇰🇿 RW 22 | 67 | 🔥 1 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 0.28 | 3 | 109 | 24 | 15 | 38 | 10:07 |
| 13 | Niklas Sundstrom 🇸🇪 RW 30 | 55 | 🧊 3 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 0.27 | 0 | 54 | 8 | 23 | 30 | 13:44 |
| 14 | Pierre Dagenais 🇨🇦 RW 28 | 32 | 🧊 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 0.38 | 2 | 74 | 19 | 3 | 16 | 9:55 |
| 15 | Garth Murray 🇨🇦 C 23 | 37 | 🧊 8 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0.16 | 0 | 25 | 57 | 31 | 44 | 9:15 |
| 16 | Aaron Downey 🇨🇦 RW 31 | 25 | 🧊 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.20 | 0 | 10 | 36 | 1 | 50 | 6:43 |
| 17 | Andrei Kostitsyn 🇧🇾 LW 21 | 12 | 🧊 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.25 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 7:32 |
| 18 | Jonathan Ferland 🇨🇦 RW 23 | 7 | 🧊 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.14 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 6:37 |
| 19 | Raitis Ivanans 🇱🇻 LW 27 | 4 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 2:57 |
| 20 | Maxim Lapierre 🇨🇦 C 21 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3:04 |
| Team totals · 20 skaters | 82 | 205 | 290 | 495 | 6.04 | 66 | 1857 | 1044 | 516 | 817 |
| # | 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 | Cristobal Huet 🇫🇷 G 30 | 36 | 18 | 2.14 | 0.929 | 1008 | 77 | — | |
| 2 | Jose Theodore 🇨🇦 G 29 | 38 | 17 | 3.21 | 0.881 | 903 | 122 | — | |
| 3 | David Aebischer 🇨🇭 G 28 | 7 | 4 | 3.71 | 0.892 | 214 | 26 | — | |
| 4 | Yann Danis 🇨🇦 G 24 | 6 | 3 | 2.33 | 0.908 | 138 | 14 | — |
47% of this roster was born in Canada, against 54% across the league. The team leans on Switzerland: 6% of its players, against 0% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 38% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 15 |
|
-7 | 246 (38%) | Ryder, Ribeiro, Souray, Rivet +11 |
| Czechia | 3 |
|
+2 | 90 (14%) | Bulis, Plekanec, Bonk |
| United States | 3 |
|
-9 | 66 (10%) | Higgins, Bouillon, Komisarek |
| Switzerland | 2 |
|
+6 | 11 (2%) | Streit, Aebischer |
| Russia | 2 |
|
+2 | 111 (17%) | Kovalev, Markov |
| Belarus | 1 |
|
+3 | 3 (0%) | Kostitsyn |
| Finland | 1 |
|
-1 | 62 (9%) | Koivu |
| France | 1 |
|
+3 | 0 | Huet |
| Kazakhstan | 1 |
|
+2 | 19 (3%) | Perezhogin |
| Latvia | 1 |
|
+3 | 0 | Ivanans |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
even | 30 (5%) | Zednik |
| Sweden | 1 |
|
-2 | 15 (2%) | Sundstrom |
Alex Kovalev led the Montréal Canadiens in scoring in 2005-06 with 65 points — 23 goals and 42 assists in 69 games. Next came Saku Koivu (62) and Michael Ryder (55).
Michael Ryder scored 30 goals for the Montréal Canadiens in 2005-06, 18 of them on the power play.
The Montréal Canadiens dressed 32 players in 2005-06: 28 skaters and 4 goalies. Together the skaters scored 241 goals.
Jose Theodore played the most games in goal for the Montréal Canadiens in 2005-06: 38 games, 17 wins, a 0.881 save percentage and a 3.21 goals against average. Cristobal Huet was the backup, in 36 games.
Andrei Markov averaged 23:32 of ice time per game for the Montréal Canadiens in 2005-06, the most on the roster.
The average age was 27.1 years. Maxim Lapierre was the youngest at 21, and Alex Kovalev the oldest at 33.
The Montréal Canadiens used 32 players in 2005-06 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 15 in Canada, 3 in Czechia and 3 in the United States. The other 11 came from Switzerland, Russia, Belarus, Finland, France, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Slovakia and Sweden. League-wide that season, 54% of players were born in Canada, against 47% on this roster.