Crucial Game For Montreal : January 25, 2012

The last night of NHL action before the All-Star break features just one game, but it is an absolutely crucial one for the Montreal Canadiens. Montreal currently sits in 12th...

Montreal: A Broken Team? : January 12, 2012

There is something about reading a hurried back-track from Michael Cammalleri that just sums up the season for the Montreal Canadiens. Of course, his comments were generally right. The line...

Crunch Time For Montreal And Tampa Bay : January 08, 2012

It is true that a team can spark a good run of form at any point, and that nobody can be ruled out of the playoff race until they are...

Montreal Canadiens Seeking Successful West Coast Roadtrip : November 30, 2011

The Montreal Canadiens begin a three game road trip in California tonight when they visit the Struggling Anaheim Ducks. For the Canadiens, they currently currently sit in 12th place of...

montreal canadiens History

The National Hockey League (NHL) team the Montreal Canadiens are based out of Montreal, Quebec in Canada. The team plays in the Eastern Conference’s Northeast Division. The Canadiens were founded in 1909 and are the only remaining NHL franchise that predates the NHL founding and the longest continuously operated profession ice hockey club as well as one of North America's oldest sports franchises. The team is an Original Six team, which describes the teams that joined the NHL in 1942 and made up the league until the expansion in 1967. The Canadiens won the Stanley Cup in 1992-93, which was the last Cup that a Canadian team has won.

The Montreal Canadiens have won 24 Stanley Cups, the most championships of any franchise. Twenty two of their championships have been since 1927 when the Cup become competing for solely within the NHL. As of 2010, in terms of percentage, the team has won twenty five percent of the total number of Stanley Cup championships following the era of the Challenge Cup, which makes them one of major sports most successful professional teams.

The Canadiens since 1996 have played at Bell Centre. Until 2003, it was called the Molson Centre. The team formerly played in the Montreal Forum, Mount Royal Arena, Montreal Westmount Arena and Jubilee Rink. Hockey fans everywhere considered the Forum a hockey shrine. The team played there for seven decades, winning all their Stanley Cup championships there except the first two.