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Montréal Canadiens, 1997-98

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Northeast Division, Eastern Conference Made the playoffs

1997-98 record

League rank	GP	Record	Points	Points %	Goals for	Goals against	Diff	Home	Away
12	82	37-32-13	87	0.530	235	208	+27	15-17-9	22-15-4

Records are wins, then losses, then ties.

Playoffs

Round	Opponent	Result
Conference Quarterfinals	Pittsburgh Penguins	Won 4-2
Conference Semifinals	Buffalo Sabres	Lost 0-4

Roster

Everyone who played for the team this season, with their stats for it.

Skater	Pos	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits
Mark Recchi	R	82	32	42	74	11	51	216	73
Vincent Damphousse	C	76	18	41	59	14	58	164	71
Saku Koivu	C	69	14	43	57	8	48	145	47
Shayne Corson	L	62	21	34	55	2	108	142	63
Martin Rucinsky	L	78	21	32	53	13	84	192	95
Vladimir Malakhov	D	74	13	31	44	16	70	166	86
Brian Savage	L	64	26	17	43	11	36	152	49
Patrice Brisebois	D	79	10	27	37	16	67	125	104
Dave Manson	D	81	4	30	34	22	122	148	97
Benoit Brunet	L	68	12	20	32	11	61	87	47
Valeri Bure	R	50	7	22	29	-5	33	134	20
Marc Bureau	C	74	13	6	19	0	12	82	112
Stephane Quintal	D	71	6	10	16	13	97	88	93
Scott Thornton	L	67	6	9	15	0	158	51	84
Sebastien Bordeleau	C	53	6	8	14	5	36	55	35
Jonas Hoglund	R	28	6	5	11	2	6	62	17
Patrick Poulin	L	34	4	6	10	-1	8	39	26
Turner Stevenson	R	63	4	6	10	-8	110	43	95
Stephane Richer	R	14	5	4	9	1	5	24	10
Peter Popovic	D	69	2	6	8	-6	38	40	67
Darcy Tucker	R	39	1	5	6	-6	57	19	52
Zarley Zalapski	D	28	1	5	6	-1	22	27	10
Craig Rivet	D	61	0	2	2	-3	93	26	52
Brett Clark	D	41	1	0	1	-3	20	26	53
David Wilkie	D	6	1	0	1	-1	4	2	3
Eric Houde	C	9	1	0	1	-3	0	4	4
Igor Ulanov	D	4	0	1	1	-2	12	4	2
David Ling	R	1	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1
Francois Groleau	D	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	1
Jassen Cullimore	D	3	0	0	0	0	4	1	2
Matt Higgins	C	1	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0
Mick Vukota	R	22	0	0	0	-4	76	8	11
Terry Ryan	L	4	0	0	0	0	31	0	1

Goalie	GP	W	L	T	OTL	SO	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	GAA	Save %
Jocelyn Thibault	47	19	15	8	0	2	1109	1000	109	2.47	0.902
Andy Moog	42	18	17	5	0	3	1024	927	97	2.49	0.905

Results

Date	Opponent	Result	Shots for	Shots against
Apr 18, 1998	vs BUF	T 3-3 (OT)	24	20
Apr 16, 1998	@ OTT	W 2-0	22	23
Apr 15, 1998	vs BOS	L 2-6	30	28
Apr 11, 1998	vs NYI	T 3-3 (OT)	35	32
Apr 10, 1998	@ BUF	L 1-2	29	27
Apr 7, 1998	@ NYR	W 3-2	22	22
Apr 6, 1998	@ WSH	T 2-2 (OT)	36	18
Apr 4, 1998	vs CAR	L 0-1	24	13
Apr 1, 1998	@ FLA	W 4-3	29	22
Mar 31, 1998	@ CAR	T 3-3 (OT)	31	21
Mar 28, 1998	vs TBL	W 8-2	29	18
Mar 26, 1998	@ FLA	L 4-5	28	21
Mar 25, 1998	@ TBL	W 2-1 (OT)	35	21
Mar 21, 1998	vs ANA	L 4-5	22	27
Mar 19, 1998	@ CHI	L 0-1	24	16
Mar 18, 1998	@ NYR	L 1-2 (OT)	25	25
Mar 16, 1998	vs CGY	T 3-3 (OT)	29	32
Mar 14, 1998	vs NJD	W 4-2	22	19
Mar 12, 1998	vs NYR	W 4-1	18	24
Mar 11, 1998	vs VAN	T 2-2 (OT)	30	26
Mar 9, 1998	vs FLA	W 6-1	27	23
Mar 7, 1998	vs BUF	L 1-2	32	26
Mar 5, 1998	@ STL	L 0-4	17	24
Mar 4, 1998	@ DAL	W 3-1	23	25
Feb 28, 1998	@ TOR	L 0-4	26	28
Feb 25, 1998	vs PIT	L 2-6	23	25
Feb 7, 1998	vs BUF	L 1-4	34	22
Feb 4, 1998	@ NYI	L 2-4	27	24
Feb 1, 1998	@ CAR	W 6-3	22	35
Jan 31, 1998	vs OTT	L 3-4	35	25
Jan 29, 1998	@ PHI	W 3-2	23	34
Jan 25, 1998	vs NJD	L 1-3	20	41
Jan 24, 1998	vs CAR	L 3-4	24	34
Jan 21, 1998	vs BOS	W 4-2	33	19
Jan 14, 1998	@ PHI	T 3-3 (OT)	29	34
Jan 12, 1998	@ TBL	W 6-3	31	25
Jan 8, 1998	@ NYI	W 8-2	26	27
Jan 7, 1998	vs BOS	L 1-2 (OT)	18	30
Jan 3, 1998	@ VAN	W 4-2	35	20
Jan 2, 1998	@ EDM	W 5-3	37	25
Dec 31, 1997	@ CGY	W 3-2	27	30
Dec 29, 1997	@ COL	T 1-1 (OT)	33	26
Dec 27, 1997	@ PIT	W 1-0	28	19
Dec 23, 1997	@ OTT	L 3-4 (OT)	22	32
Dec 22, 1997	vs EDM	T 3-3 (OT)	26	38
Dec 20, 1997	vs OTT	W 4-1	36	26
Dec 19, 1997	@ BUF	L 0-1	42	20
Dec 15, 1997	vs PHI	L 1-3	21	27
Dec 13, 1997	@ BOS	L 2-4	23	25
Dec 12, 1997	@ NJD	L 2-5	31	33
Dec 10, 1997	vs STL	W 4-3 (OT)	25	25
Dec 8, 1997	vs COL	W 4-2	28	25
Dec 6, 1997	vs NYR	T 3-3 (OT)	22	27
Dec 3, 1997	vs LAK	W 2-0	34	35
Dec 1, 1997	vs PIT	L 0-1	25	19
Nov 29, 1997	@ PIT	L 3-6	22	27
Nov 28, 1997	@ DET	L 0-2	21	30
Nov 26, 1997	@ WSH	W 6-5	27	31
Nov 24, 1997	vs SJS	T 2-2 (OT)	36	23
Nov 22, 1997	vs DET	L 2-5	28	25
Nov 19, 1997	@ CAR	L 1-2	34	27
Nov 17, 1997	vs TBL	W 4-1	27	26
Nov 15, 1997	vs WSH	L 2-3	36	21
Nov 13, 1997	@ PHX	W 5-2	24	37
Nov 12, 1997	@ ANA	W 4-3 (OT)	36	25
Nov 8, 1997	@ LAK	W 4-1	34	28
Nov 7, 1997	@ SJS	W 4-3	26	27
Nov 5, 1997	vs PHX	W 4-2	24	18
Nov 3, 1997	vs DAL	W 6-4	24	22
Nov 1, 1997	vs TOR	W 5-1	36	27
Oct 29, 1997	vs NYI	L 2-5	23	26
Oct 27, 1997	vs CHI	W 4-2	23	34
Oct 25, 1997	@ OTT	W 4-2	21	30
Oct 23, 1997	@ NJD	L 1-2 (OT)	31	33
Oct 22, 1997	vs FLA	W 3-0	22	26
Oct 18, 1997	vs WSH	L 2-3	39	33
Oct 17, 1997	@ BUF	W 5-1	42	22
Oct 15, 1997	vs PIT	T 1-1 (OT)	35	16
Oct 11, 1997	vs PHI	L 2-6	23	32
Oct 8, 1997	@ PIT	W 3-0	27	26
Oct 4, 1997	@ BOS	W 4-1	23	25
Oct 1, 1997	vs OTT	T 2-2 (OT)	25	30