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The Stanley Cup (French: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) considers it to be one of the "most important championships available to the sport". [1]
Prior to that, the challenge cup was held by nine teams. The Montreal Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup 24 times and made the Finals an additional 11 times. There were two years when the Stanley Cup was not awarded: 1919, because of the Spanish flu pandemic, and 2005, because of the 2004–05 NHL lockout.
The team won its first Stanley Cup championship in the 1915–16 season. [14] In 1917, with four other NHA teams, the Canadiens formed the NHL, [15] and they won their first NHL Stanley Cup during the 1923–24 season, led by Howie Morenz. [16] The team moved from the Mount Royal Arena to the Montreal Forum for the 1926–27 season. [17]
William Lawrence Hicke (March 31, 1938 – July 18, 2005) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger.A native of Regina, Saskatchewan, Hicke played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Oakland Seals/California Golden Seals and Pittsburgh Penguins, winning the Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1959 and 1960. [1]
The club placed second in the league to Ottawa, but defeated the Senators in the playoffs to win the league championship and reach the Stanley Cup Finals. Montreal hosted the 1924 Stanley Cup Finals against the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). The Canadiens won the best-of-three series in two games, and captured their ...
In 1894, the team participated in the first Stanley Cup playoff, losing 3–2 to Montreal in the semi-final. The team resigned from the AHAC in 1898 over the proposal to allow the Ottawa Capitals into the league, and helped form the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) in which they played from 1899–1905.
The 1909–10 Canadiens. The Montreal Canadiens (French: Les Canadiens de Montréal) are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal.They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) [1] and are one of the Original Six teams of the league. [2]
Montreal defended the Stanley Cup in its first challenge as champions in December 1906. The Wanderers defeated the New Glasgow Cubs 17–5 in a two-game, total-goals series. They repeated as league champions in 1907, then faced the Kenora Thistles in a Stanley Cup challenge in January 1907.