which active nhl player has the most goal vs the candians in career

Alex Ovechkin has scored the most career goals by an active player versus the Canadiens, with 39 scored.

	NAME	G	GP	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	39	59	31	70	+13	42	12	14	0	0	2	1	257	15.2	3	5	60.0	165	27	31	34	21:04
2	Auston Matthews A. Matthews	27	35	18	45	+12	8	6	5	0	0	4	2	142	19.0	267	501	53.3	39	32	34	29	19:57
3	Jeff Skinner J. Skinner	27	43	20	47	-2	16	9	8	0	0	4	1	151	17.9	44	90	48.9	20	7	38	26	17:48
4	Aleksander Barkov A. Barkov	25	35	22	47	+17	4	5	8	0	1	3	0	103	24.3	323	609	53.0	15	18	29	21	19:15
5	Steven Stamkos S. Stamkos	25	52	25	50	+14	31	9	9	0	0	2	0	171	14.6	324	631	51.3	51	35	18	31	19:25
6	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	25	51	41	66	+5	28	7	15	0	0	6	1	160	15.6	600	1,128	53.2	65	26	34	38	20:49
7	John Tavares J. Tavares	22	58	29	51	+2	26	7	11	1	0	5	2	197	11.2	521	1,019	51.1	49	31	33	61	19:27
8	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	22	51	42	64	+22	32	6	16	1	0	2	1	153	14.4	266	560	47.5	33	28	48	41	20:09
9	David Pastrnak D. Pastrnak	20	31	21	41	+12	12	4	7	0	0	4	0	129	15.5	1	2	50.0	33	15	15	28	17:41
10	James van Riemsdyk J. van Riemsdyk	19	48	15	34	-1	16	4	5	1	0	3	0	145	13.1	5	18	27.8	46	14	18	17	16:19
11	William Nylander W. Nylander	17	34	13	30	+7	14	8	4	0	0	3	0	108	15.7	58	105	55.2	7	9	25	15	17:17
12	Brock Nelson B. Nelson	17	31	8	25	+2	8	3	2	1	0	2	0	85	20.0	148	303	48.8	16	18	21	18	17:36
13	Brad Marchand B. Marchand	17	56	31	48	+12	81	4	7	1	1	4	2	129	13.2	19	48	39.6	60	19	28	43	17:23
14	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	15	36	27	42	+16	8	6	10	0	0	3	0	97	15.5	0	1	0.0	25	9	20	28	18:30
15	Tyler Seguin T. Seguin	15	35	16	31	+10	14	3	7	0	0	3	1	119	12.6	133	264	50.4	26	13	13	15	17:27
16	Mika Zibanejad M. Zibanejad	14	37	13	27	0	6	4	5	2	0	0	0	99	14.1	252	531	47.5	46	20	13	17	17:03
17	Claude Giroux C. Giroux	14	48	24	38	+8	24	5	9	0	0	1	0	132	10.6	424	799	53.1	42	23	24	21	19:43
18	Brady Tkachuk B. Tkachuk	13	29	14	27	-7	49	6	5	0	0	5	2	100	13.0	72	160	45.0	131	10	18	26	18:05
19	Leon Draisaitl L. Draisaitl	13	27	20	33	-6	16	6	9	0	0	3	1	78	16.7	246	456	53.9	17	11	21	35	20:58
20	Matthew Tkachuk M. Tkachuk	12	25	16	28	+12	16	7	7	0	0	2	0	65	18.5	1	1	100.0	31	6	14	27	17:59
21	Bo Horvat B. Horvat	12	29	8	20	-12	4	7	4	0	0	0	0	64	18.8	314	601	52.2	20	16	14	13	20:02
22	Tyler Johnson T. Johnson	12	29	3	15	+4	8	3	1	1	0	3	2	73	16.4	147	316	46.5	30	16	12	12	16:36
23	Nicklas Backstrom N. Backstrom	12	44	24	36	+4	26	7	7	0	0	1	0	95	12.6	417	808	51.6	19	30	35	19	19:50
24	Anthony Mantha A. Mantha	11	24	8	19	-4	23	3	3	0	0	4	1	57	19.3	2	7	28.6	22	16	10	16	15:26
25	Mark Stone M. Stone	11	26	12	23	+1	20	3	5	1	1	4	1	59	18.6	3	6	50.0	30	17	26	10	18:13