Montreal Canadiens

This article is about the NHL hockey team. For the NHA hockey team, see Les Canadiens. For the women's hockey team, see Les Canadiennes de Montreal. For Canadien people of Montreal, see Canadien, Canadians, and Montrealer.
"Habs" redirects here. For the early French settlers of Quebec, see Habitants. For other uses, see Habs (disambiguation).

Montreal Canadiens
Canadiens de Montréal
2024–25 Montreal Canadiens season
A small white H contained inside a large red C, all surrounded by a blue contour.
ConferenceEastern
DivisionAtlantic
Founded1909
HistoryMontreal Canadiens
1910–1917 (NHA)
1917–present (NHL)
Home arenaBell Centre
CityMontreal, Quebec
Team coloursRed, white, blue[1][2]
     
MediaEnglish
French
Owner(s)Molson family (majority owner)
(Geoff Molson, chairman)[3]
General managerKent Hughes
Head coachMartin St. Louis
CaptainNick Suzuki
Minor league affiliatesLaval Rocket (AHL)
Trois-Rivières Lions (ECHL)[4]
Stanley Cups24 (1915–16, 1923–24, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1943–44, 1945–46, 1952–53, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1985–86, 1992–93)[note 1]
Conference championships8 (1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1992–93)[note 2]
Presidents' Trophy0[note 3]
Division championships24 (1927–28, 1928–29, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1936–37, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1991–92, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17)
Official websiteOfficial website

The Montreal Canadiens[note 4] (French: Les Canadiens de Montréal), officially le Club de hockey Canadien (lit. The Canadian Hockey Club)[5] and colloquially known as the Habs,[note 5] are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal. The Canadiens compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Since 1996, the team has played its home games at Bell Centre, originally known as Molson Centre.[6] The Canadiens previously played at the Montreal Forum, which housed the team for seven decades and all but their first two Stanley Cup championships.[note 6]

Founded in 1909, the Canadiens are the oldest continuously operating professional ice hockey team worldwide, and the only existing NHL club to predate the founding of the NHL. One of the oldest North American professional sports franchises, the Canadiens' history predates that of every other Canadian franchise outside the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts, as well as every American franchise outside baseball and the National Football League's Arizona Cardinals. The franchise is one of the "Original Six", the teams that made up the NHL from 1942 until the 1967 expansion. The team's championship season in 1992–93 marked the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup.[7]

The Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup more times than any other franchise, having earned 24 championships, with 23 victories since the founding of the NHL, and 22 since 1927, when NHL teams became the only ones to compete for the Stanley Cup.[8] The Canadiens also had the most championships by a team of any of the four major North American sports leagues until the New York Yankees won their 25th World Series title in 1999.

  1. ^ Pickens, Pat (June 13, 2021). "Niagara Falls lighting up red, white and blue for Canadiens". NHL.com. NHL Enterprises, L.P. Retrieved April 28, 2022.
  2. ^ NHL Public Relations (February 10, 2020). "NHL and Montreal Canadiens unveil 2020 NHL Draft logo". Canadiens.com (Press release). NHL Enterprises, L.P. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
  3. ^ "Administration". Canadiens.com. NHL Enterprises, L.P. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
  4. ^ "The Canadiens announce affiliation with the new ECHL Trois-Rivières club". Montreal Canadiens Official Website. January 19, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  5. ^ "Privacy Policy". Canadiens.com. NHL Enterprises, L.P. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
  6. ^ "Molson Centre renamed Bell Centre". CBC Sports. February 26, 2002. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved February 14, 2007.
  7. ^ "It's been 18 years since last Canadian Stanley Cup". The Globe and Mail. June 12, 2011. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  8. ^ "Stanley Cup All-time Champions and Finalists". National Hockey League. 2014. Archived from the original on July 19, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.


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