Montreal Canadiens: Ranking Nicolas Deslauriers’ goal celebrations

Nicolas Deslauriers has had the best goal celebrations for the Montreal Canadiens season. Let’s take a look at them and see where they should rank.

I don’t know about you, but I love seeing players celebrate goals. There are some who aren’t a fan of them and think that it’s ‘showing people up’ or ‘hot dogging’, but there’s nothing better than seeing the raw emotion after a team finds the back of the net. The Montreal Canadiens have had their fair share of solid celebrations that make you want to get up and celebrate with them.

So who has had the best ones? Alex Galchenyuk has a knack for cellying hard when he scores, the same goes for Brendan Gallagher. We also can’t forget Max Pacioretty who’s best, or at least funniest, goal celebration was the non-goal celebration on his shorthanded tally against Tampa.

Great options for sure, but no one has been better at this season than Nicolas Deslauriers. When the Habs first called him up, we all expected that he would provide some quality energy shifts and possibly drop the gloves once in a while. Deslauriers has had experience of contributing to a team’s offensive numbers in the AHL, but that was in the AHL.

A player will sometimes have to change their style to find a niche in the NHL and it looked like Deslauriers had to adjust to being more of a physical type. However, he’s found a way to score some goals with the Montreal Canadiens, and celebrate them well.

You can see the passion Deslauriers has on the ice and he’s continuing to prove why the Habs can’t take that jersey off of him. The 26-year-old has scored seven goals this season – a career high – and has had a nice celebration to match each of them. I thought it would be fun to revisit them and see where they should rank amongst each other.