Montreal Canadiens trades
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Washington Capitals acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Rick Green | September 9, 1982 | Brian Engblom |  |
| Ryan Walter | Doug Jarvis | |||
| Rod Langway | ||||
| Craig Laughlin | ||||
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | St. Louis Blues acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 2nd round pick (#27-Sergio Momesso) | March 9, 1982 | Guy Lapointe |  |
| Hartford Whalers acquire | Date | Montreal Canadiens acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Pierre Larouche | December 21, 1981 | 1984 1st round pick (#5-Petr Svoboda) | |
| 1984 1st round pick (#11-Sylvain Cote) | 1984 2nd round pick (#26-Brian Benning) | |||
| 1985 3rd round pick (#58-Bruce Racine) | 1985 3rd round pick (#47-Rocky Dundas) | |||
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Winnipeg Jets acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 6th round pick (#117-Ernie Vargas) | December 19, 1981 | Serge Savard |  |
| Toronto Maple Leafs acquire | Date | Montreal Canadiens acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Michel Bunny Larocque | March 10, 1981 | Robert Picard | |
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Colorado Rockies acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 3rd round pick (Daniel Letendre) | March 10, 1981 | Bill Baker |  |
| Canadiens option to swap 1984 4th round picks (#65-Lee Brodeur) | Canadiens option to swap 1984 4th round picks (#74-Paul Ysebaert) | |||
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Los Angeles Kings acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 2nd round pick (#26-Claude Lemieux) | February 17, 1981 | Rick Chartraw |  |
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Winnipeg Jets acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| future considerations (1982 2nd round pick (#33-David Maley)) | September 26, 1980 | Norm Dupont | |
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Pittsburgh Penguins acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canadiens option to swap 1983 3rd round picks (#43-Peter Taglianetti) | September 26, 1980 | Gilles Lupien |  |
| Canadiens option to swap 1983 3rd round picks (#58-Mike Rowe) | ||||
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Minnesota North Stars acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| future considerations | September 1, 1980 | Bill Nyrop |  |
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Calgary Flames acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Gorman | September 1, 1980 | Tim Burke |  |
| Hartford Whalers acquire | Date | Montreal Canadiens acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rick Meagher | June 5, 1980 | 1981 3rd round pick (#46-Dieter Hegen) | |
| 1981 3rd round pick (#61-Paul MacDermid) | 1981 5th round pick (#88-Steve Rooney) | |||
| 1981 5th round pick (#103-Dan Bourbonnais) | ||||
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Winnipeg Jets acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cash | October 4, 1979 | Ron Wilson | |
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Los Angeles Kings acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 4th round pick (#69-John DeVoe) | September 14, 1979 | Brad Selwood | |
| 1982 4th round pick (#82-Dave Ross) | ||||
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Pittsburgh Penguins acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denis Herron | August 30, 1979 | Rob Holland | |
| 1982 2nd round pick (#31-Jocelyn Gauvreau) | Pat Hughes | |||
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Minnesota North Stars acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 2nd round pick (#27-Gaston Gingras) | August 8, 1979 | Bill Nyrop | |
| 1980 2nd round pick (changed to 1982 2nd round pick on 6/11/80) (#32-Kent Carlson) | ||||
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Edmonton Oilers acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 2nd round pick (#27-Ric Nattress) | June 13, 1979 | Dave Lumley |  |
| Dan Newman | ||||
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Quebec Nordiques acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 3rd round pick (#45-John Newberry) | June 9, 1979 | Canadiens promise to take Danny Geoffrion and Alain Cote rather than Marc Tardif and/or Richard David from Nordiques in 1979 NHL reclaim draft |  |
| 1981 2nd round pick (#32-Lars Eriksson) | ||||
| Nordiques promise to take Alain Cote in NHL expansion draft | ||||
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | Pittsburgh Penguins acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 1st round pick (#7-Mark Hunter) | October 18, 1978 | Rod Schutt | |
| Montreal Canadiens acquire | Date | St. Louis Blues acquire | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Korney | October 7, 1978 | Gord McTavish | |