Why they are the best team in history

  Why they are the best team in history 

They are the oldest team in the history of the game. The most Stanley Cups in history, starting with 1916 when they beat the Portland Rosebuds 3-2. The last time they won the cup is in 1993 when they beat Wayne Gretzky and  the Los Angelos Kings. Three peoples  with the most  indivudals cup is Henri Richard, Jean Beliveau and Yvan Cournoyer.

They have the most retired Numbers with 19 players to have that honor. In the futur a number that might be retired will be Saku Koivu who wore number 11, He was the captain for 14 years and he was the first european captain for Montreal. The only number is retired by the team that never played for them is Wayne Gretzky.

They have the most passionate fans in the league. The reason why i say that is that because when Maurice Rocket Richard hit a Linesmens. Richard was suspended for the reminder of the 1954-55 season. There was a riot. 100 000 $ in damage extimation, 37 injuries, and 100 arrestes,  Dick Irvyn lost his job because of the riot.

The biggest moment in their history is when thet won 5 straight stanley cups from 1956 to 1960, they also have 45 hall of famer. and the canadiens is the biggest hockey organsation and the most polorised team in history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fvd7PX8NDg
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The Greatest Montreal Canadiens player of their Postion.

    

                                             The Greatest Montreal Canadiens player of their Postion.

The greatest defencemen that ever played for montreal is the hall of famer and his number 2 is retired by montreal and he his Doug Harvey.

Doug Harvey was a captain for the 1960-61 season. He scored 86 goals, 367 assists. he was in the Sin Bin for about 1072 minutes of his whole carreer playing for the habs. He is considered one of the first  offensive defencemen. He was the leader of one of  the best Power Play lines of all times. All 5 players  of the PP lines is constist of 5 hall of famers Bernie Geoffrion, Bert Olmstead, Jean Beliveau and Maurice Rocket Richard. 

He is one of the best Denfencemen to ever play the game of hockey. 

The Right Wingers, Jean Beliveau is not only one of the best right wigers of all time but he is one of the Fowards to ever play. The number is consider one of the best. He scored 544 goals, 421 assits et 965 points. He was the first player to ever score 50 goals in a season.. He was the captain for 1956-60. There a movie about him. If theirs movie any player in any sports. There must be something special about the person  

The best left winger that ever played for the habs is Toe Blake. Joseph Hector Blake was the captain for 8 season from 1940 to 1948. He scored 235 goals, 292 assits and 527 points in total. He was such a legendary person and a player. He was on one of the greatest Hockey lines in history. The ''Punch Line''  The Punch Line dominated the 1944- 1945 season,  For the goal section they got a combined pucks in the net of 105. all three of them with the first, second and third place for scoring. Toe Blake not only was a player he was a coach for 13 years out of the 13 years he got 8 stanley cups out of it.

Jean Beliveau the most stanley cups by an indivual with 10.  Le Gros Bill was played in the all stars game thirteen times between 1953 to 1969. He also recived the Hart Memorial, which is the player who is the helpfull to his team. He got the awards twice.
507 goals and 712 helpers in a total of 1219 points. The number 4 was an insperation for other players, Vincent Lecavalier wear the number 4 in honour of him. He was honored in the canadien walk of fame.

The most INPORTANT part of a team, the goalies. Ken Dryden is the greatest Goaltender thats ever played for Montreal. a record of 258 wins 57 loses, with a goals againts average of 2.24 goals. Ken Dryden had one of the most signuature stances in history. He used to crosses his arms and put it on his stick 

The best season of the Montreal Canadiens from 1967 to 2014.

                                                           

       The Best Season for the  Montreal Canadiens From 1967 to 2014

The 1976-77 season. That's  the 68th season for the team. Yvan Cournoyer was the captain of team. He was  6th in points for the forwards. he got 53 points.. Guy Lafleur got the season Most Valuble Player award and the top scorer. because he scored 56 goals, 80 assists and 136 points. They got 60 wins, 8 loses 12 ties.

387 goals. They were the  Norris Division champions and the Wales conference champions.

They walked right into playoffs with a great seasons. In  the post season the Power housed themselves to the Stanley Cup finals. They went straight to the quarter Finals, they beat the St. louis Blues with 4 wins. At the Semifinals they had their toughest challenge of the playoffs. The series was 4 wins for Montreal and 2 wins for New York Islanders
New York Islanders vs Montreal Canadiens .
Game 1 Montreal 4-3 New York
Game 2 Montreal 3-0 New York
Game 3 New York 5-3  Montreal
Game 4 Montreal 4-0 New York
Game 5 It  was the best game of  the whole series. The Islanders beat Montreal, Billy Harris for the islanders scored  the game winning goal in overtime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z89YZHwc7No
Game 6 Montreal beat New York 2-1.

In the NHL 1976-1977 Finals

The Boston Bruins beat the Broad Street Bullies the Philldelphia Flyers with series of 4-0, to get into the Stanley Cup  finals. Boston came into the playoffs with a season of 49 wins,  23 loses and 8 ties
Game 1: The Canadiens best the Boston Bruins with a score of 7-3.
Game 2: Boston got beat by the Habs 3-0 the hall of farmer Ken Dryden got a shutout for the Canadiens
Game 3 Les Habitants won 4-2 
Game 4 : The Canadiens won the stanley cup. They won their 20th Stanley cup. 
 The habs received 7 awards from the NHL. The Stanley Cup, The Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur got  4 out of the 7 that Montreal got. He got the play off MVP, the season MVP, the league top scorer and the most outstanding player of the season. Another reason why it was their best season. It's because was the last time that one of the greatest right wingers of Montreal won the playoff MVP. 

The Biggest Rivalries of the Canadiens

                                     The Biggest  rivalry of the Canadiens 

    There's  about  two big rivalries in Montreal Canadiens history. 

The Montreal vs Boston rivalry is one of the biggest rivalries in sports history. The rivalry is compared       tothe Boston Red Socks and New York Yankees rivalry and the L.A Lakers vs The Boston Celtics. The Canadiens faced the bruins a total of 717 times during the rivalry. The habs won 350 times and scored 2,185 goals. The Big Bad Bruins won  264 games and scored 1,909, in the rest of the games they've played  Everytime that they play echother its a big and intense game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajZIILhpU1g

The second big rivalry that the Canadiens have is the one with the Toronto Maple leafs. The French Canadien Club vs The english speaking club. This is one of the oldest rivalry is the history of the game. The only two Canadiens clubs in the Original Six. They've fought To see whos the best team. The Original Six started in 1924, there was the NHL 67 expansion draft. from 1944 to 1978 the two teams played echother 15 times 5 out of the 15 they were in the finals.  Heres a video about them when they played echother on febuary 9 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SFgPqFMWI