Richard Sévigny was one of seven goalies drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1977 Amateur Draft, but the only one who would graduate full-time to the National Hockey League.
He dressed for an NHL game for the first time during the 1979 playoffs, as backup to Ken Dryden when Michel Laroque was injured. Although he didn’t play a single game, he did get his name engraved on the Stanley Cup.
The following year, Dryden’s retirement caused an open competition for the goaltending job, with Laroque and Dennis Herron splitting duties, but Sévigny did make his NHL debut later in the season when he was recalled from the AHL’s Nova Scotia Voyageurs to replace an injured Laroque.