Montreal CanadiansCanadian professional ice hockey team based in Montreal. The oldest operational team continues in the National Hockey League (NHL), Canadians won More Stanley Cup titles than any other team (24) and are the most successful franchise in the history of the league.
The Canadians were created in 1909 as one of the founding teams of the National Hockey Association, the NHL precursor (which was formed in 1917). The Canadians won their first Stanley Cup championship during the 1915-2016 season, triumphing In an exciting series of five games against Portland (Oregon) Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. Center Howie Morenz – who is considered by many to be the greatest hockey player in the Second World War era – joined the team in 1923 and led Montreal to the Victoires de la Cup Stanley in 1924, 1930 and 1931.
Before the 1926-1927 season, the Canadians moved into the Montreal Forum, their domestic stadium for 70 seasons (including 22 winning campaigns of the Stanley Cup) before the team’s departure in 1996. After the fourth in Montreal Stanley Cup Title, in the 1930-1931 season, the Canadians failed to win the Cup for 12 years, the longest drought in the team century.
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In 1942, Montreal signed on the right Maurice (“Rocket”) RichardA future temple of fame that would become the leader of the career of the franchise in the scored goals. Richard has teamed up with Center Elmer Lach and on the left Blake toe To form the “Punch line” at high scoring and the Canadian trio squad which won the Stanley Cup in 1944 and 1946.
Blake retired in 1948, but he joined the team before the 1955-1956 season as a chief coach, and he led Canadians in the most dominant period in the history of the team. Blake guided a program filled with stars which understood Richard, his younger brother Henri (“Pocket Rocket”) Richard, Jean BéliveauDoug Harvey, and Jacques Plant to a record of five consecutive Stanley cuts from 1956 to 1960.
As he retired from training in 1968, Blake led Canadians to three other Stanley cups, and his teams ranked lower than the second once during his 13 years on the bench. Montreal continued to dominate the League in the 1970s, winning six other Stanley cuts During this decade, including four consequences from 1976 to 1979 with teams led by the head coach Scotty Bowman And with future players in the fame of fame Guy Lafleur, Ken Dryden and Larry Robinson.
Canadians have slightly disappeared in the 1980s, at least according to their own incredibly high standards. While the team has always qualified for the playoffs each season of the decade, it only won one Stanley Cup (during the 1985-1986 season). The 1985-1986 championship team presented the recruit goalkeeper Patrick RoyWho has become the youngest winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy (rewarded to the most useful player of the season) of all time that year and would retire later – after having finished his career with the Colorado Avalanche– Like the most victorious guardian of the NHL of all time. The Canadians won their 24th Stanley Cup title behind Roy’s Netminding in the 1992-1993 season.
The play in Montreal fell for the rest of the 1990s and in the early 2000s. Canadians qualified for the playoffs in 7 of the 13 seasons between 1993 and 1994 and 2006-2007, but failed to progress further than the second round of the eliminatory series during this period. As the eighth seeded (the lowest) of the 2009-2010 playoff series, Montreal turned the head Washington Capitals In seven games (becoming the first eight-serial-heady to upset a seeded after having followed a three-game series to one). The Canadians followed this upheaval by another by beating the champion in title of the Stanley Cup Pittsburgh penguins in the conference semi-final before being finally eliminated by the Philadelphia flyers In the conference final.
Behind the game of the goalkeeper star Carey priceCanadians became one of the best NHL teams in mid-2010, which included another appearance in the conference final in 2014-2015. However, the resurgence has never reached the heights to which the franchise was used to and it ended with the 2017-2018 season when the Canadians finished with their worst record since 2000-2001 and missed the playoffs.
Canadians returned to the playoffs after COVID 19–Rorigé 2019-2020 The regular season, where the team lost in the first round. The NHL season 2020-20 unique In that the pandemic still covids madness has forced the league to play its season with four temporary divisions made up of teams which would only be played during the regular season and during the first two rounds of the playoffs. A division was made up of the seven NHL Canadian teams and, despite the end of the regular season, as the lowest eliminatory series of its division – Montal has advanced division qualifiers. The team then upset the Vegas Golden Knights To go to the Stanley Cup final, where Canadians were defeated by the Tampa Bay Lightning In five games.
The following two seasons saw the Canadians finish last in their division.
