Chris Nilan has the most career penalty minutes for the Canadiens, with 2,248 minutes in the box.

	NAME	PIM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Chris Nilan C. Nilan	2,248	523	88	87	175	+16	7	5	0	0	8	0	663	13.3
2	Lyle Odelein L. Odelein	1,367	420	20	75	95	+59	6	17	1	1	2	0	412	4.9
3	Shayne Corson S. Corson	1,341	662	168	255	423	+69	54	69	2	6	26	0	1,315	12.8	193	445	43.4	121	48	33	27	19:05
4	Maurice Richard M. Richard	1,287	978	544	422	966	+18	143	111	4	2	84	0	166	11.4
5	John Ferguson J. Ferguson	1,216	500	145	158	303	+83	26	30	0	0	31		1,144	12.7
6	Doug Harvey D. Harvey	1,051	890	76	371	447	+53	22	179	3	8	13		150	8.0
7	Mario Tremblay M. Tremblay	1,043	852	258	326	584	+185	46	42	2	2	35	0	1,884	13.7
8	Jean Beliveau J. Beliveau	1,033	1,125	507	712	1,219	+117	173	269	0	2	83		2,627	11.4
9	Doug Risebrough D. Risebrough	959	493	117	185	302	+159	8	23	2	1	19		852	13.7
10	Henri Richard H. Richard	932	1,258	358	688	1,046	+243	47	115	0	1	53		3,199	8.5
11	Tom Johnson T. Johnson	897	857	47	183	230	+86	9	37	3	6	9		297	3.0
12	Jean-Guy Talbot J. Talbot	892	801	36	209	245	+122	2	34	4	5	7		607	4.4
13	Butch Bouchard B. Bouchard	865	786	49	144	193		9	18	1	4	10	0
14	Guy Lapointe G. Lapointe	812	777	166	406	572	+346	57	172	3	10	20		2,300	7.2
15	Terry Harper T. Harper	807	554	14	112	126	+184	0	1	0	2	2		428	3.3
16	Craig Rivet C. Rivet	795	653	39	112	151	-1	12	23	0	3	5	2	677	5.8	0	3	0.0	479	577	234	456	20:28
17	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	783	402	72	237	309	+75	29	113	4	7	14	0	993	7.3
18	Aurel Joliat A. Joliat	771	655	269	194	463		11	9	0	2	65	9
19	Petr Svoboda P. Svoboda	761	534	39	190	229	+162	13	70	0	0	10	1	734	5.3
20	Larry Robinson L. Robinson	706	1,202	197	686	883	+692	65	225	3	5	28	0	2,136	9.2
21	Peter Mahovlich P. Mahovlich	695	580	223	346	569	+267	55	90	17	4	35		1,448	15.4
22	Jacques Laperriere J. Laperriere	679	692	40	242	282	+256	10	84	4	9	5		1,324	3.0
23	Sylvio Mantha S. Mantha	673	538	63	77	140		0	3	0	0	13	1
24	Stephane Quintal S. Quintal	637	507	37	78	115	-14	3	13	2	4	6	0	734	5.0	0	0		203	237	68	201	19:24
25	Bernie Geoffrion B. Geoffrion	630	766	371	388	759	+40	111	162	2	0	73		1,165	12.6