{"id":542155,"date":"2026-04-05T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542155\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:23:10","slug":"suzukis-quest-for-100-points-with-canadiens-watched-from-afar-by-naslund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542155\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzuki’s quest for 100 points with Canadiens watched from afar by Naslund"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suzuki would also become the fifth different Canadiens player with at least 100 points in a season, joining Guy Lafleur<\/a>, who did it six times, Peter Mahovlich<\/a>\u00a0(twice), Naslund and Steve Shutt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s a pretty small group when you think about all the history in that organization,” Naslund said, “but Jean (Beliveau) and Maurice (Richard) didn’t play enough games to get to 100 points. I would have thought that Jacques Lemaire<\/a> would be part of the 100-point club since he was one of the best forwards on those dynasty teams from the 70s.”<\/p>\n

Lemaire flirted with the 100-point plateau three times, finishing with 95 in 1972-73, 92 in 1974-75 and 97 in 1977-78.<\/p>\n

Naslund said he believes there’s two keys to open the door to a 100-point season.<\/p>\n

“You have to play practically every game, and you need to rely on a good power play,” he said. “I was fortunate enough to have that. I played 80 games and I beefed up my stats on the power play.”<\/p>\n

Of his 110 points, 50 came with the man-advantage. Of Suzuki’s 94 points, 40 have come on the power play. And Suzuki has stayed far away from the trainer’s room — not only has he played all 76 of Montreal’s games this season, he has played in every single one of the Canadiens’ past 531 since the start of the 2019-20 season, the second longest active iron-man streak in the NHL, behind Colorado Avalanche defenseman Brent Burns<\/a>, who played his 1,000th consecutive game Saturday.<\/p>\n

Naslund was reminded of the fact he was the childhood hero of Montreal coach Martin St. Louis.<\/p>\n

“That’s the sign that you’re getting old,” Naslund joked. “When you become the coach’s favorite player growing up and not the players’ favorite.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suzuki would also become the fifth different Canadiens player with at least 100 points in a season, joining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,5,264,21,5147,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-542155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-montreal","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens","12":"tag-montrealcanadiens","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116352555729053894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}