1952–53 Montreal Canadiens season
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.Record vs. opponents
Playoffs
| 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 1Regular season
;Scoring
| Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
| RW | 70 | 28 | 33 | 61 | 112 |
| LW | 69 | 17 | 28 | 45 | 83 |
| C | 53 | 16 | 25 | 41 | 56 |
| RW | 65 | 22 | 17 | 39 | 37 |
| D | 69 | 4 | 30 | 34 | 67 |
| LW | 69 | 9 | 17 | 26 | 38 |
| LW | 69 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 26 |
| RW | 68 | 16 | 6 | 22 | 10 |
| C | 63 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 27 |
| C | 56 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 26 |
| C | 53 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 44 |
| D | 70 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 63 |
| D | 58 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 55 |
| C | 59 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 9 |
| LW | 18 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 19 |
| D | 54 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 34 |
| C | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| D | 59 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 67 |
| LW | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| C/RW | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| C | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| D | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
;Goaltending
| Player | MIN | GP | W | L | T | GA | GAA | SO |
| 3960 | 66 | 25 | 23 | 18 | 140 | 2.12 | 10 |
| 180 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1.33 | 0 |
| 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 |
| RW | 12 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 12 |
| RW | 12 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| C | 12 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| LW | 12 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| C | 7 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| D | 12 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| D | 12 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 8 |
| D/LW | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| LW | 12 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| LW | 7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| RW | 12 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| LW | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| D | 12 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| D | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| RW | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| C | 11 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| LW | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| C | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| D | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
;Goaltending
| Player | MIN | GP | W | L | GA | GAA | SO |
| 486 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 1.98 | 2 |
| 240 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1.75 | 1 |
| Team: | 726 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 23 | 1.90 | 3 |
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