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Montreal Canadiens
NHL, the National Hockey League is a premier professional North American Sports League played in indoor stadiums. It’s divided into two conferences, each comprising of three divisions of ice hockey teams. The league was established in 1917 in Montreal, Quebec and it is composed of 30 teams out of which 24 teams based in U.S. and 6 in Canada. They have a regular season and playoffs leading to the Stanley Cup, which is the NHL Championship final.
Montreal Canadiens is from the Eastern Conference of the Northeast division. It is founded in 1909. They were a charter member of the NHLeague's forerunner, the National Hockey Association, NHA, in 1909, operating as the Haileybury Hockey Club. The next season, the Club Athletique-Canadien, was admitted to the league, taking over the Haileybury franchise and renaming it the Canadiens.
At its creation, the Canadiens were recognized as the French Canadian team of Montreal. The team jersey is referred to as La Sainte-Flanelle, the holy sweater. In English, their main nicknames are the Habs and The Flying Frenchmen. To this date, the Montreal Canadiens remain the last Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup, having last won it in 1992-93.
The Montreal Canadiens are the oldest established National Hockey League, NHL, franchise, and the second most successful professional sports club in all of North American sports history. Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Canadiens are one of the NHL's 'Original Six' franchises, along with the Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs. The Montreal Canadiens play their home games at the Bell Centre.
In their near-century of existence, they have won 24 Stanley Cups the most championships by any team in the NHL, eleven more than the team with the next largest number the Toronto Maple Leafs. In the 1970s, the Boston Bruins began a strong rivalry with the Canadiens as a result of their almost annual playoff encounters. After the merger of the World Hockey Association into the NHL in 1979, the former Quebec Nordiques were also bitter rivals of the Canadiens, and their matchups came to be known as The Battle of Quebec.
Montreal Canadiens achieved the Conference Championships as well as Division Championships under Guy Carbonneau is the head coach of the team. Saku Koivu plays the role of captain for the team.
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