Top 50 Greatest Montreal Canadiens

in 2017, The Hockey News ranked the many players that have donned the Bleu-Blanc et Rouge. Can you name the Montreal Canadiens' best of the best?

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Rank	Position, Team Career	Player
1.	RW; 1942-60	Maurice "Rocket" Richard
2.	C; 1951-71	Jean "Le Gros Bill" Béliveau
3.	D; 1947-61	Doug Harvey
4.	RW; 1971-85	Guy "Le Démon Blond" Lafleur
5.	C; 1923-37	Howie "The Stratford Streak" Morenz
6.	G; 1953-63	Jacque Plante
7.	D; 1972-89	Larry "Big Bird" Robinson
8.	G; 1985-95	Patrick "St. Patrick" Roy
9.	C; 1955-75	Henri "Pocket Rocket" Richard
10.	C; 1917-22	Edouard "Newsy" Lalonde
11.	LW; 1951-63	Richard "Dickie" Moore
12.	D; 1967-81	Serge "Le Sénateur" Savard
13.	RW; 1950-64	Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion
14.	G; 1971-79	Ken "The Thinker" Dryden
15.	LW; 1963-79	Yvan "Roadrunner" Cournoyer
16.	G; 1943-50	Bill Durnan
17.	C; 1940-54	Elmer Lach
18.	LW; 1922-38	Aurèle "Petit Géant" Joliat
19.	LW; 1973-89	Bob "Le Capitaine" Gainey
20.	C; 1967-79	Jacques "Coco" Lemaire
21.	D; 1969-82	Guy "Pointu" Lapointe
22.	LW; 1935-48	Hector "Toe" Blake
23.	G; 2007-present	Carey "Pricer" Price
24.	G; 1917-25	Georges "The Chicoutimi Cucumber" Vézina
25.	D; 1962-74	Jacques Laperrière

Rank	Position, Team Career	Player
26.	D; 1941-56	Émile "Butch" Bouchard
27.	LW; 1972-84	Steve "Shutty" Shutt
28.	D; 1959-72	Jean-Claude "J. C." Tremblay
29.	LW; 1971-74	Frank "Big M" Mahovlich
30.	RW; 1917-23	Didier "Cannonball" Pitre
31.	D; 1940-50	Ken "Kenny" Reardon
32.	C; 1969-77	Peter "Little M" Mahovlich
33.	C; 1981-94	Guy Carbonneau
34.	LW; 1963-71	John "Fergy" Ferguson
35.	G; 1926-39	George Hainsworth
36.	D; 1923-36	Sylvio Mantha
37.	LW; 1982-90	Mats "Le Petit Viking" Näslund
38.	LW; 1950-58	Bert Olmstead
39.	D; 1947-63	Tom "Tomcat" Johnson
40.	RW; 1955-70	Claude Provost
41.	D; 1984-90	Chris "Honey Nut" Chelios
42.	C; 1995-2009	Saku "Captain K" Koivu
43.	LW; 1960-69	Gilles Tremblay
44.	D; 2000-17	Andrei "Le Général" Markov
45.	C; 1957-71	Ralph Backstrom
46.	C; 1975-82	Doug Jarvis
47.	G; 1963-70	Lorne "Gump" Worsley
48.	D; 2010-16	P.K. "The Subbanator" Subban
49.	RW; 1960-70	Bobby Rousseau
50.	LW; 2008-18	Max "Patches" Pacioretty

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