Adams managed to pass his probationary period by leading the renamed franchise to first ever playoff series victory over the Montreal Maroons.

The Montreal Maroons and Detroit Red Wings went scoreless until 16 and a half minutes into the sixth OT when Mud Bruneteau ends it at 2: 25 in the morning.

In only their second season, the Rangers won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Maroons three games to two.

In 1933, the CNR's successor, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission ( CRBC ), commenced broadcasts of Montreal Canadiens and Montreal Maroons games on its Quebec stations.

Montreal broadcasts were hosted by Doug Smith and Elmer Ferguson broadcast for Montreal Maroons games in English and René Lecavalier broadcast Montreal Canadiens games in French.

With the Montreal Maroons, the team was one of the NHL's first expansion teams.

The Montreal Maroons ( officially the Montreal Professional Hockey Club ) were a professional men's ice hockey team in the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

In order to accomodate the Maroons a new arena was built for them in 1924, the Montreal Forum.

Built in 1924, as the home rink of both the Montreal Maroons and the Montreal Canadiens.

The Montreal Maroons hockey team was created to appeal to the anglophone neighbourhoods of Montreal.

Montreal Maroons dark logoAt the time of their founding, the Maroons had no nickname.

The Maroons ' president James Strachan had been the owner of the Wanderers in the 1900s and he attempted to secure the Wanderers name but negotiations failed, so the club was known by its official name, the Montreal Professional Hockey Club.

The Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association had changed their name to the Vancouver Maroons, but the club had folded before Montreal started.

In 1935, Leo Dandurand, owner of the Montreal Canadiens sells the team to Canadian Arena Company, ( Ernest Savard, Louis Gelinas and Maurice Forget ) who also owned the Montreal Maroons for $ 165, 000.

Financial strains from the Great Depression in Montreal hurt the attendances of both the Canadiens and Maroons.

This, along with the fact that both teams were owned by the Canadian Arena Company by 1935 ( Ernest Savard and Maurice Forget, who owned the Canadiens, were part of the Canadian Arena Company, as were Maroons owners James Strachan and Donat Raymond ) made it obvious that only one team could represent Montreal.

In the playoffs, the Montreal Maroons defeated Chicago with defensive hockey, defeated the New York Rangers at wide-open ( offensive ) hockey, and then defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, who Gorman considered as one of the best hockey teams of all time, in three straight games.

Mulroney's professional reputation was further enhanced when he ended a strike that was considered impossible to resolve at the Montreal newspaper La Presse.

Only nine months after winning the Cup, in March 1906, the Montreal Wanderers pushed through a resolution at the annual meeting of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association ( ECAHA ) that would allow professional players to play alongside amateurs.

One year later, the Montreal HC and the Montreal Victorias, the two remaining amateur teams, left the ECAHA, and the ECAHA dropped " Amateur " from their name to become a professional league.

Joseph Henri Maurice " The Rocket " Richard, (; ; August 4, 1921 – May 27, 2000 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) from 1942 to 1960.

* Andrew Wenger ( 1990-); Hermann Trophy winner and professional soccer player for Montreal Impact

* F. P. Santangelo-a former American professional baseball player ( 1995 – 2001 ) who played for the Montreal Expos, San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Oakland Athletics.

Groulx founded the Institut d ' histoire d ' Amérique française in 1946, an institute located in Montreal devoted to the historical study of Quebec and of the French presence in the Americas and the publication of La revue d ' histoire de l ' Amérique française, still today arguably the main publication for professional historians in Quebec.

Following his participation in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Platini signed a two-year contract with Nancy, his first professional contract.

“ Designating the Dean of Law: attempts to control the nature of legal education at McGill University by the Montreal corporate and professional elite, 1946-1950 .” Dalhousie Law Journal.

Upon leaving Miami, he played professional football for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.

The Montreal Wanderers were a Canadian amateur, and later becoming a professional men's ice hockey team.

Rodney Cory Langway ( born May 3, 1957 ) is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played for the Montreal Canadiens and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) and Birmingham Bulls of the World Hockey Association ( WHA ).

* Bryan Chiu, retired Canadian professional football player ; played Centre for the Montreal Alouettes in the CFL from 1997 to 2010

The Royal Canadian Navy has a number of professional brass-reed bands on ships: HMCS Carleton in Ottawa, Ontario ; HMCS Chippawa in Winnipeg, Manitoba ; HMCS Discovery in Vancouver, British Columbia ; HMCS Donnacona in Montreal, Quebec ; HMCS Montcalm in Quebec, Quebec ; HMCS Star in Hamilton, Ontario ; HMCS Tecumseh in Calgary, Alberta and HMCS York in Toronto, Ontario.

Other frequent targets of Skip's jokes included the Montreal Expos ' mascot Youppi, New York Mets fans, professional wrestling, TBS baseball broadcast producer Glenn Diamond, and the post game B-movie frequently shown on TBS during the 1980s.

Nicknamed " Saint Patrick ," Roy split his professional career between the Montreal Canadiens, whom he played with for 10 years, and Colorado Avalanche, whom he played with for 8 years, both of the National Hockey League.

Jean Arthur " Le Gros Bill " Béliveau, ( born August 31, 1931 ) is a former professional ice hockey player who played parts of 20 seasons with the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens.

Larry Robinson played Junior ' A ' hockey with the Brockville Braves of the CJHL and Juniors with the Kitchener Rangers then turned professional, spending 1971 to 1973 with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the American Hockey League before making it to the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens.

Aurèle Émile " Mighty Atom, Little Giant " Joliat ( August 29, 1901 in Ottawa, Ontario – June 2, 1986 in Ottawa, Ontario ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens.

* Ed Millaire, professional hockey player Montreal Canadiens

As of 2010, Sportsnet will be airing the Amway Canadian Championship, an annual competition featuring Canada's four professional soccer teams – Toronto FC, Montreal Impact, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, and FC Edmonton.

The medley had its origin in Montreal, Canada, and it was later revealed that it was the work of one Michel Ali together with two professional DJ's ; Michel Gendreau and Paul Richer.

There are early representations and reports of ice hockey-type games being played on ice in the Netherlands, and reports from Canada from the beginning of the nineteenth century, but the modern game was initially organized by students at McGill University, Montreal in 1875 who, by two years later, codified the first set of ice hockey rules and organized the first teams.

While the game's origins may lie elsewhere, Montreal is at the centre of the development of the modern sport of ice hockey.

* 1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.

* March 3 – The first organized indoor game of ice hockey is played between two teams at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Canada.

During that time, organized ice hockey in Canada was still in its infancy and only Montreal and Ottawa had anything resembling leagues.

Led by captain Joe Sakic, forward Peter Forsberg, and defenseman Adam Foote on the ice and Pierre Lacroix as the general manager and Marc Crawford as the head coach, the Avalanche became stronger when All-Star Montreal Canadiens goalie Patrick Roy joined the team.

Maurice Richard played minor ice hockey at all levels in the Montreal area before playing junior in Verdun, starting in 1938.

Lars Eller of the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team.

Typically, they left Montreal in the spring, as soon as the rivers and lakes were clear of ice ( usually May ) with their canoes loaded with supplies and goods for trading.

* January 2 — The first All-Star game in ice hockey history is held at Montreal to benefit the widow of Hod Stuart, killed in an off-season swimming accident.

It is best known as the home of the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team.

* The logo for the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team, derived from its French name, Les Canadiens de Montréal

* The Montreal Victorias hockey club, members of the Victoria Skating Club, begin play of ice hockey at the Victoria Skating Rink, leading to the first organized indoor game in 1875.

* 3 March — first organised and recorded indoor game of ice hockey is played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal.

* First set of ice hockey rules are published in the Montreal Gazette.

* The first Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournament is held as part of the Montreal Winter Carnival in Montreal, Canada in late January and early February.

It is the first championship ice hockey tournament and is won by the Montreal McGill University team.

* February 11-The Montreal Victorias defeat the Ottawa Hockey Club 1 – 0 to win the second Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournament.