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The Montreal Canadiens again won the regular season standings and again their players dominated the All-Star nominations ( with six of a possible twelve, the same number as in 1956 ) and trophies as Jacques Plante won his fourth straight Vezina Trophy, Tom Johnson won the James Norris Memorial Trophy, ending teammate Doug Harvey's four-year monopoly, and Dickie Moore won the Art Ross Trophy, setting a new record for total points in a season: with a 41-goal, 55-assist campaign, " Digger " broke " Mr. Hockey's " record by a single point.
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They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ), and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, and Chicago Blackhawks.
, the Red Wings have won the most Stanley Cup championships ( 11 ) of any NHL franchise based in the United States, and are third overall in total NHL championships, behind the Montreal Canadiens ( 24 ) and Toronto Maple Leafs ( 13 ).
In 1938, the Wings and the Montreal Canadiens became the first NHL teams to play in Europe, playing in Paris and London.
After being upset by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1951 semifinals, Detroit won its fifth Cup in 1952, sweeping both the Leafs and the Canadiens, with the Production Line of Howe, Abel and Lindsay joined by second-year goalie Terry Sawchuk.
Detroit and Montreal once again met in the 1956 finals, but this time the Canadiens won the Cup, their first of five in a row.
Former Montreal Canadiens coach Scotty Bowman got behind the Motown bench in 1993.
The Boston Bruins have had the most Norris Trophies winners with 14 ; the Montreal Canadiens have had the second most with 11.
* 1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
* 1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
In the first game of the 1981 playoffs versus the Montreal Canadiens, Gretzky had five assists.
This victory propelled the Kings into the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in franchise history, where they faced the Montreal Canadiens.
It was preceded by the Mega Stars game, which featured Gretzky and many of his Oiler Dynasty teammates against a group of retired Montreal Canadiens players ( whose likes included Claude Lemieux, Guy Lafleur and others ).
* May 5 – The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.
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Herb Brooks, who coached the 1980 " Miracle on Ice " team, was brought in for the 1992 – 93 season, but when the team yet again was eliminated in the first round, he was fired and replaced with former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Lemaire.
Despite several trade offers from Montreal Canadiens ' GM Sam Pollock, Torrey refused to part with the pick.
In 1976 and 1977, the Islanders were knocked out in the semifinals by eventual Stanley Cup champions, the Montreal Canadiens.
The Islanders then defeated the Washington Capitals and Montreal Canadiens in six games each to set up a finals rematch with the Oilers.
Unlike the 1976 – 79 Montreal Canadiens, who needed to win three series in the 1976 and 1977 playoffs under the playoff format in place at that time, the Islanders had to win four series in each of their Stanley Cup seasons.
Turgeon returned to the Islanders ' top line for the Wales Conference Finals against the Montreal Canadiens, though he was not in peak form as he had not fully recovered.
They are part of the group of teams referred to as the Original Six, along with the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, and Chicago Blackhawks.
They would eventually lose to the Detroit Red Wings in overtime in the seventh game of the finals, despite a stellar first-round performance as underdogs to the Montreal Canadiens.
A year earlier, they made the playoffs for the first time in five years on the strength of rookie goaltender Eddie Giacomin and acquired 1950s Montreal Canadiens star right wing Bernie " Boom Boom " Geoffrion.
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Accompanied by a small number of Americans, he again set out, traveling through the countryside to Sorel, before turning to follow the Saint Lawrence River up toward Montreal, recruiting upwards of 200 men.
Michael and his younger brother Ralf Schumacher are the only brothers to win races in Formula One, and they were the first brothers to finish 1st and 2nd in the same race, in Montreal in 2001, and there again ( in switched order ) in 2003.
After two first-round exits at the hands of the eventual champions from Montreal in 1959 and 1960, it was expected that the Canadiens would once again beat the Hawks when they met in the semifinals in 1961.
The Hawks repeated their appearance in Cup Final that year, however, again losing to Montreal.
In 1996 at the closing of the Montreal Forum, a tearful " Rocket " received the longest standing ovation in the city's history: Over 16 minutes of adulation poured over him, chanting his nickname over and over again.
His fight with Yvon Durelle in particular was of note: defending his world light heavyweight title in Montreal, he was felled three times in round one, and once again in round five, but then dropped Durelle in round 10 and won by a knockout in the 11th.
Mesrine continued robbing banks in Montreal, and even covertly gained access into the US again for a brief stay at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, before moving to Caracas, Venezuela.
He remained close to his old friends, and Isaac Todd, who Henry enjoyed teasing, returned again to Montreal from his native Ireland to be close to Henry and McGill.
By 1652, the colony at Montreal had been so reduced, he was again forced to return to France to raise 100 volunteers to return to Montreal the following year.
Vancouver won their second USL1 championship in 2008 by beating the Puerto Rico Islanders 2-1 in the first USL1 final to feature no American teams ; the championship went north of the border again in 2009 when Montreal Impact won their first USL1 title, beating Vancouver 6-3 on aggregate over two legs in the first all-Canadian affair.
The team finished in fourth place with a 9-9 record and crossed over to the Eastern playoffs again, only to be defeated by the Montreal Alouettes in the first ever post-season meeting with that team.
Bolduc began limited touring again in the summer of 1938, only in the Montreal area.
Carter has the unique honor of being the first person to score a run in a World Series outside of the United States ( Game 3, 1992 World Series ) and the last person to do so ( Game 6, 1993 World Series ), a distinction that will remain in place until Toronto wins the American League pennant again ( in 1993 there were two Canadian teams, but the Montreal Expos never reached a World Series and exist today as the Washington Nationals ).
" In 1964, his family moved to a French neighbourhood just outside Montreal, Quebec, and five years later moved again to Vancouver, British Columbia.
Harvey's last Stanley Cup victory came in 1986, when the Montreal Canadiens were once again the winners.
In the middle of the 2001 – 02 season, Audette was traded again, this time to the Montreal Canadiens.
On May 23, 1961, he again spoke as part of a public meeting organized by the RIN, this time at the Ermitage in Montreal.
On September 27, 1918 in Montreal, the NHA directors met again.
Ottawa, Montreal Wanderers and Canadiens voted to again suspend operations of the league.
With the annexation of neighbouring towns between 1883 and 1918, Montreal became a mostly Francophone city again.
In November 2005 Allmand was elected to the Montreal city council seat of Loyola in Western NDG as a member of the Union Montréal party and once again showed an independent streak by voting against his party's motion to change the name of Park Avenue to Avenue Robert Bourassa.
He did not choose to run again in the 2009 Montreal municipal election, but his seat was retained for Union Montréal by Susan Clarke.
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