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1952–53 Montreal Canadiens
Stanley Cup Champions
1952–53 record	28–23–19
Goals for	155
Goals against	148
Team information
General Manager	Frank J. Selke
Coach	Dick Irvin
Captain	Emile Bouchard
Arena	Montreal Forum
Team leaders
Goals	Maurice Richard (28)
Assists	Maurice Richard (33)
Points	Maurice Richard (61)
Penalties in minutes	Maurice Richard (112)
Wins	Gerry McNeil (25)
Goals against average	Jacques Plante (1.33)

<1951–52	1953–54>

The 1952–53 Montreal Canadiens season was the Canadiens' 44th season of play. The Canadiens placed second in the regular season, defeated the Chicago Black Hawks in the semi-final and the Boston Bruins in the final to win the club's seventh Stanley Cup championship.

Contents

1 Regular season
- 1.1 Final standings
- 1.2 Game log
2 Playoffs
3 Stanley Cup Final
4 Player stats
- 4.1 Regular season
- 4.2 Playoffs
5 Awards and records
6 Transactions
7 Montreal Canadiens 1953 Stanley Cup champions
- 7.1 Roster
- 7.2 Stanley Cup engraving
8 See also
9 References

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League
	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
Detroit Red Wings	70	36	16	18	90	222	133
Montreal Canadiens	70	28	23	19	75	155	148
Boston Bruins	70	28	29	13	69	152	172
Chicago Black Hawks	70	27	28	15	69	169	175
Toronto Maple Leafs	70	27	30	13	67	156	167
New York Rangers	70	17	37	16	50	152	211

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Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
Teams that qualify for the playoffs are indicated in bold.

Game log

Regular season results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	L	October 9, 1952	2–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	0–1–0
2	W	October 11, 1952	2–1	Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	1–1–0
3	T	October 12, 1952	1–1	@ Boston Bruins (1952–53)	1–1–1
4	W	October 16, 1952	3–1	New York Rangers (1952–53)	2–1–1
5	W	October 18, 1952	2–1	Boston Bruins (1952–53)	3–1–1
6	L	October 19, 1952	1–6	@ Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	3–2–1
7	T	October 23, 1952	2–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	3–2–2
8	W	October 25, 1952	9–0	Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	4–2–2
9	L	October 29, 1952	5–7	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	4–3–2
10	W	November 1, 1952	4–1	New York Rangers (1952–53)	5–3–2
11	T	November 2, 1952	2–2	@ New York Rangers (1952–53)	5–3–3
12	W	November 6, 1952	3–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	6–3–3
13	W	November 8, 1952	6–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	7–3–3
14	L	November 13, 1952	1–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	7–4–3
15	W	November 15, 1952	2–0	Boston Bruins (1952–53)	8–4–3
16	L	November 16, 1952	1–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	8–5–3
17	T	November 22, 1952	2–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	8–5–4
18	T	November 23, 1952	2–2	@ New York Rangers (1952–53)	8–5–5
19	T	November 27, 1952	2–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	8–5–6
20	T	November 29, 1952	1–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	8–5–7
21	L	November 30, 1952	1–3	@ Boston Bruins (1952–53)	8–6–7
22	L	December 4, 1952	1–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	8–7–7
23	L	December 6, 1952	1–2	Boston Bruins (1952–53)	8–8–7
24	T	December 7, 1952	2–2	@ New York Rangers (1952–53)	8–8–8
25	W	December 10, 1952	2–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	9–8–8
26	W	December 11, 1952	3–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	10–8–8
27	W	December 13, 1952	3–0	Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	11–8–8
28	T	December 14, 1952	0–0	@ Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	11–8–9
29	W	December 18, 1952	6–2	New York Rangers (1952–53)	12–8–9
30	L	December 20, 1952	3–6	Boston Bruins (1952–53)	12–9–9
31	W	December 21, 1952	4–3	@ Boston Bruins (1952–53)	13–9–9
32	L	December 24, 1952	0–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	13–10–9
33	T	December 27, 1952	2–2	Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	13–10–10
34	W	December 31, 1952	2–0	@ Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	14–10–10
35	T	January 1, 1953	2–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	14–10–11
36	L	January 3, 1953	0–1	Boston Bruins (1952–53)	14–11–11
37	T	January 8, 1953	4–4	New York Rangers (1952–53)	14–11–12
38	W	January 10, 1953	5–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	15–11–12
39	L	January 11, 1953	0–7	@ New York Rangers (1952–53)	15–12–12
40	W	January 15, 1953	2–0	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	16–12–12
41	T	January 17, 1953	1–1	Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	16–12–13
42	W	January 18, 1953	3–2	@ Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	17–12–13
43	W	January 21, 1953	1–0	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	18–12–13
44	W	January 22, 1953	4–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	19–12–13
45	L	January 24, 1953	1–5	Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	19–13–13
46	T	January 25, 1953	3–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	19–13–14
47	W	January 28, 1953	2–1	@ New York Rangers (1952–53)	20–13–14
48	W	January 29, 1953	5–2	New York Rangers (1952–53)	21–13–14
49	T	January 31, 1953	0–0	Boston Bruins (1952–53)	21–13–15
50	L	February 1, 1953	3–4	@ Boston Bruins (1952–53)	21–14–15
51	W	February 5, 1953	2–0	Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	22–14–15
52	L	February 7, 1953	1–3	Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	22–15–15
53	T	February 8, 1953	1–1	@ New York Rangers (1952–53)	22–15–16
54	W	February 12, 1953	3–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	23–15–16
55	T	February 14, 1953	2–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	23–15–17
56	L	February 15, 1953	0–1	@ Boston Bruins (1952–53)	23–16–17
57	L	February 19, 1953	1–4	Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	23–17–17
58	W	February 21, 1953	4–1	New York Rangers (1952–53)	24–17–17
59	W	February 25, 1953	2–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	25–17–17
60	W	February 26, 1953	4–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	26–17–17
61	L	February 28, 1953	3–4	Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	26–18–17
62	L	March 5, 1953	0–5	@ Boston Bruins (1952–53)	26–19–17
63	W	March 7, 1953	1–0	Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	27–19–17
64	L	March 8, 1953	3–4	@ New York Rangers (1952–53)	27–20–17
65	T	March 12, 1953	2–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1952–53)	27–20–18
66	W	March 14, 1953	3–2	New York Rangers (1952–53)	28–20–18
67	L	March 15, 1953	1–2	@ Boston Bruins (1952–53)	28–21–18
68	L	March 19, 1953	1–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1952–53)	28–22–18
69	L	March 21, 1953	1–2	Boston Bruins (1952–53)	28–23–18
70	T	March 22, 1953	1–1	@ Detroit Red Wings (1952–53)	28–23–19

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Playoffs

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Stanley Cup Final

For more details on this topic, see 1953 Stanley Cup Final.

Date	Away	Score	Home	Score	Notes
April 9	Boston	2	Montreal	4
April 11	Boston	4	Montreal	1
April 12	Montreal	3	Boston	0
April 14	Montreal	7	Boston	3
April 16	Boston	0	Montreal	1	OT

Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4 games to 1

Player stats

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Richard, MauriceMaurice Richard	RW	70	28	33	61	112
Olmstead, BertBert Olmstead	LW	69	17	28	45	83
Lach, ElmerElmer Lach	C	53	16	25	41	56
Geoffrion, BernieBernie Geoffrion	RW	65	22	17	39	37
Harvey, DougDoug Harvey	D	69	4	30	34	67
Meger, PaulPaul Meger	LW	69	9	17	26	38
Gamble, DickDick Gamble	LW	69	11	13	24	26
Curry, FloydFloyd Curry	RW	68	16	6	22	10
Mosdell, KenKen Mosdell	C	63	5	14	19	27
Reay, BillyBilly Reay	C	56	4	15	19	26
Masnick, PaulPaul Masnick	C	53	5	7	12	44
Johnson, TomTom Johnson	D	70	3	8	11	63
Bouchard, ButchButch Bouchard	D	58	2	8	10	55
McCormack, JohnJohn McCormack	C	59	1	9	10	9
Moore, DickieDickie Moore	LW	18	2	6	8	19
St. Laurent, DollardDollard St. Laurent	D	54	2	6	8	34
Beliveau, JeanJean Beliveau	C	3	5	0	5	0
MacPherson, BudBud MacPherson	D	59	2	3	5	67
Stewart, GayeGaye Stewart	LW	5	0	2	2	0
Litzenberger, EdEd Litzenberger	C/RW	2	1	0	1	2
Desaulniers, GerardGerard Desaulniers	C	2	0	1	1	2
Irwin, IvanIvan Irwin	D	4	0	1	1	0
Abbott, RegReg Abbott	C	3	0	0	0	0
McNeil, GerryGerry McNeil	G	66	0	0	0	0
Murphy, HalHal Murphy	G	1	0	0	0	0
Plante, JacquesJacques Plante	G	3	0	0	0	0
Rousseau, RolandRoland Rousseau	D	2	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
McNeil, GerryGerry McNeil	3960	66	25	23	18	140	2.12	10
Plante, JacquesJacques Plante	180	3	2	0	1	4	1.33	0
Murphy, HalHal Murphy	60	1	1	0	0	4	4.00	0
Team:	4200	70	28	23	19	148	2.11	10

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Geoffrion, BernieBernie Geoffrion	RW	12	6	4	10	12
Richard, MauriceMaurice Richard	RW	12	7	1	8	2
Lach, ElmerElmer Lach	C	12	1	6	7	6
Moore, DickieDickie Moore	LW	12	3	2	5	13
Mosdell, KenKen Mosdell	C	7	3	2	5	4
Johnson, TomTom Johnson	D	12	2	3	5	8
Harvey, DougDoug Harvey	D	12	0	5	5	8
Mazur, EddieEddie Mazur	D/LW	7	2	2	4	11
Olmstead, BertBert Olmstead	LW	12	2	2	4	4
MacKay, CalumCalum MacKay	LW	7	1	3	4	10
Curry, FloydFloyd Curry	RW	12	2	1	3	2
Meger, PaulPaul Meger	LW	5	1	2	3	4
St. Laurent, DollardDollard St. Laurent	D	12	0	3	3	4
Bouchard, ButchButch Bouchard	D	12	1	1	2	6
Davis, LorneLorne Davis	RW	7	1	1	2	2
Reay, BillyBilly Reay	C	11	0	2	2	4
Gamble, DickDick Gamble	LW	5	1	0	1	2
Masnick, PaulPaul Masnick	C	6	1	0	1	7
MacPherson, BudBud MacPherson	D	4	0	1	1	9
Anderson, DougDoug Anderson	C	2	0	0	0	0
McCormack, JohnJohn McCormack	C	9	0	0	0	0
McNeil, GerryGerry McNeil	G	8	0	0	0	0
Plante, JacquesJacques Plante	G	4	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
McNeil, GerryGerry McNeil	486	8	5	3	16	1.98	2
Plante, JacquesJacques Plante	240	4	3	1	7	1.75	1
Team:	726	12	8	4	23	1.90	3

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Note:

Pos = Position; GPI = Games played in; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; +/- = Plus/minus; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals

Min, TOI = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T,T/OT = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

Awards and records

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Transactions

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Montreal Canadiens 1953 Stanley Cup champions

Roster

Centres

11 Paul Masnick
14 Billy Reay (A. Capt.)
16 Elmer Lach (A. Capt.)
17 Johnny McCormack
18 Kenny Mosdell
20 Paul Meger (also played Wing)
23 Doug Anderson&

Wingers

Defencemen

Goaltenders

1 Gerry McNeil
1 Jacques Plante

Non-players

Donat Raymond (President/Owner)
Dalton Coleman, William Northey (Vice Presidents/Owners)
Frank Selke Sr. (Manager), Dick Irvin Sr. (Coach)
Hector Dubois (Trainer), Gaston Bettez (Ass't Trainer)
Camile DesRoches^, Frank Selke Jr.^ (Publicity Directors)
&- Doug Anderson played 2 games in the Semi-Finals, qualified to be on the Stanley Cup, but name was still left off
^- on the team picture, but missing from the Stanley Cup.

Stanley Cup engraving

Eddie Maruz was misspelled EDDIE MARUZE, with an extra "E" on the Replica Cup created in 1992–93. His name was spelled correctly on the other 2 rings.
Mistake Gaston Bettez name was misspelled in 1953. Gettez was GOSTON BETTES on the original ring in 1953, G Bettes on the other 2 rings of 1953 Montreal.

References

^ Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy et al. ed. THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
^ "1952–53 Montreal Canadiens Games". Hockey-reference.com. http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/MTL/1953_games.html. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
^ "1952-53 Montreal Canadiens Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/MTL/1953.html. Retrieved 2009-05-28.

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Montreal Canadiens

Franchise

Franchise • History (Original Six • Centennial) • Players • Coaches • General managers • Seasons • Records • Draft picks • Award winners

Culture and lore

Youppi • The Punch Line • Richard Riot • 1938 European tour

Arenas

Jubilee Arena • Montreal Arena • Mount Royal Arena • Montreal Forum • Bell Centre • Bell Sports Complex (practice)

Affiliates

Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL) • Wheeling Nailers (ECHL)

Television

SRC • RDS

Radio

English	TSN Radio 990

French	98,5 FM

Rivalries

Boston Bruins • Quebec Nordiques • Toronto Maple Leafs

v d e 1952–53 NHL season by team

Teams	Boston • Chicago • Detroit • Montreal • New York • Toronto

See also	All-Star Game • 1953 Stanley Cup Finals• Tansactions

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