It's been almost 40 years since a Montreal Canadiens player scored 100 points. Who was the last, and which Hall of Famers owns the club record for most points in a single season?

The Montreal Canadiens may have the most Stanley Cup banners, and for a franchise with arguably the game's richest history, a statistic that has all but eluded them for almost four decades is a magical 100-point season.

Only four players have recorded 100 points in a single season, with Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur accounting for five of the 10 campaigns in which a player reached triple digits.

Other names on the shortlist include Peter Mahovlich, Steve Shutt, and Mats Naslund, the last Montreal player to reach the milestone in 1985-86.

According to statistics at NHL.com, a Canadiens player accounts for just 10 out of the 133 players who reached 100 points between 1917 and 1986. 

However, in the past 38 seasons, not a single player from Montreal has reached the century-point club. Meanwhile, the remaining 31 teams produced 179 individuals who tallied 100 points.

Vincent Damphousse scored the most points in a single campaign since 1986 in 1992-93, when he collected 97. His career season ranks 217th amongst all players in the past three decades.

Moreover, the Canadiens have employed only eight players who registered 90 or more points, representing two percent of all 90-point skaters in the past 31 years. Overall, 365 players have reached that plateau since 1993.

For perspective, Hall of Fame netminder Patrick Roy played 91.6% of his career with Montreal with just a single 100-point player, while Hart Trophy winner Carey Price went his entire 15-year career without a single teammate reaching 90 points.

Considering the youth movement in Quebec's largest city, could Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki, or even Juraj Slafkovsky eventually join this list?

Canadiens Players With 100-Point Seasons

Mats Naslund

1985-86 (110 points)

Näslund is undoubtedly the best Swedish-born player to ever skate with the Canadiens, winning the Stanley Cup in 1986 and remaining the last to reach the century point club.

On top of netting a career-high 43 goals in 1986, he finished the year with 110 points, the eighth-highest single-season total in team history. His plus-11 rating is the lowest amongst the players to record 100 points in a season.

As a two-time 40-goal scorer, Näslund recorded 243 goals and 612 points in 617 games, reaching a minimum of 20 goals in all eight years he spent in Montreal.

Steve Shutt 

1976-77 (105 points)

Steve Shutt played all but 59 games with the Canadiens during his Hall of Fame career, which included five Stanley Cup titles, with a single victory in 1973 and four consecutive ones from 1976 to 1979. 

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As a one-time 60-goal scorer, Shutt recorded 105 points in 1976-77, finishing second in team scoring behind Lafleur, who set the franchise record with 136 points thanks to 80 assists. 

That year marked the only time Shutt scored more than 50 since he wound up a three-time 40-goal scorer. In 871 games, he tallied 408 lamplighters and finished with 776 points and a plus/minus rating of plus-413.

Peter Mahovlich

1974-75 (117 points), 1975-76 (105 points)

Mahovlich won four Stanley Cups during his 16-year career, which included stops in Detroit, Montreal, and Pittsburgh. In his fifth season with Montreal, he became the first player, along with Lafleur, to collect 100 points in a single season, finishing the campaign with 117 points to his teammate's 119.

The duo duplicated their feats in the following campaign, with Mahovlich finishing second in scoring to Lafleur, who set the then-record of 125. 

During his career, Mahovlich was a five-time 30-goal scorer, finishing his tenure in Quebec with 223 lamplighters for 569 points in 580 games.

Guy Lafleur

1974-75 (119 points), 1975-76 (125 points), 1976-77 (136 points), 1977-78 (132 points), 1978-79 (129 points), 1979-80 (125 points)

Lafleur is at or near the top in a long line of iconic names in Canadiens history. As the franchise's leading scorer with 1,246 points in 961 games, he remains one of the most decorated and prolific skaters to wear the Le Bleu-Blanc-Rouge.

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From 1974 to 1980, he tallied 766 points in 462 games and never scored fewer than 119 points in those six seasons, setting and breaking his own record for most points in a single year. 

Moreover, during this historic stretch, Lafleur did not tally less than 50 goals while joining the 60-goal club in 1977-78, one season after he set the record with 136 points thanks to 56 goals and 80 assists. 

Realistically, his dominance in the late 1970s may never be duplicated by another Canadiens player, allowing him to have one of the team's unmatched legacies. 

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