Montreal Canadiens Guy Carbonneau Elected Into Hockey Hall of Fame
The Montreal Canadiens have close to 50 players who once played for them enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Guy Carbonneau is the most recent player to join that list.
The Montreal Canadiens list of Hockey Hall of Fame players is a lengthy one. They now have close to 50 former members of their organization in the Hall of Fame with the announcement today that Guy Carbonneau will be inducted in November.
Carbonneau was a hard nosed, defensive minded center during his 18 year NHL career. He first cracked the Canadiens roster in the 1882-83 season scoring 47 points in 77 games. He was an excellent third line center that would kill penalties throughout his career and shutdown opposing players.
In fact, he was so good at shutting down the opposition he was awarded three times for his efforts. Carbonneau won the Frank J. Selke Award as the NHL’s best defensive player in 1988, 1989 and 1992.
The Quebec native was drafted by his hometown team in the third round of the 1979 NHL Entry Draft. He would become the captain of the team eventually and is the last player to captain a Canadian team to the Stanley Cup, which he did in 1993 with the Canadiens.
Carbonneau was also a big piece of the 1986 Stanley Cup winning team in Montreal. He scored 12 points in 20 games but was a huge part of their penalty kill and defensive structure playing between Bob Gainey and Chris Nilan.
Offense was certainly not his forte as an NHL player, but Carbonneau lit up the scoresheet in Junior and the American Hockey League. He scored 72 goals and 182 points in his final Junior season with the Chicoutimi Sagueneens of the QMJHL.
Even in the AHL, Carbonneau was an offensive force in his early twenties. He played two seasons with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs, scoring 182 points in a total of 155 games.
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However, he found his role in the NHL as a defensive center and as proven by his there Selke’s, he did it better than anybody. Carbonneau left the Montreal Canadiens in 1994 and would go on to win another Stanley Cup with the Dallas Stars in 1999.