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.

Stanley was first exposed to the game at Montreal's 1889 Winter Carnival, where he saw the Montreal Victorias play the Montreal Hockey Club.

He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named " The Country of Canadas ", after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona ( Quebec City ) and at Hochelaga ( Montreal Island ).

The following season, 2002 – 03, saw the Avalanche claim the NHL record for most consecutive division titles, nine, breaking the Montreal Canadiens streak of eight, won between 1974 – 82.

Aykroyd saw Sam & Dave as a teenager at the Montreal Expo in 1967, and said they were one of his biggest influences.

The 1970s also saw the company pioneer the use of elastane ( spandex ) and the brand's use in Olympic record breaking continued at the 1972 Munich and 1976 Montreal games, the latter of which Speedo was an official swimwear licensee.

The game saw two All-Star teams, the first being a team of stars from the Canadiens and the Montreal Maroons, the second being an All-Star team made of players from the other teams, with the latter team winning 6 – 5.

This initiative to bring freeways into Quebec was started by Maurice Duplessis, whose government saw the construction of the Laurentian Autoroute ( now A-15 ) from Montreal to Saint-Jérôme and the first section of the Boulevard Métropolitain ( A-40 ), which opened in 1960.

He saw action at Fort Ticonderoga, the Battle of Fort Frontenac, the Battle of Fort Niagara, and Montreal.

Wayne had begun calling Oliva " The Myth " "( because everyone who saw him at the 1967 Montreal World's Fair said he was " Just unbelievable ")".

The early part of the 20th century saw growth in opera, and the foundation of the Montreal Opera Company in 1910, and opera singers became popular.

The company also sold the line along the St. Lawrence River between Rivière-du-Loup and Lévis in 1879 to the federal government-owned Intercolonial Railway ( IRC ), and granted running rights in 1889 to the IRC on trackage between Lévis and Montreal ( via Richmond ); however, the IRC's construction of a more direct line from Lévis to St-Hyacinthe in 1899 saw most of this traffic transferred to that line.

Pelletier ran unsuccessfully in a Quebec City riding during the 1993 election, which saw the party capture few seats in the province of Quebec outside of their federalist stronghold of Montreal.

In 1995, Hardwick appeared at the Montreal Comedy Festival, where Brandon Tartikoff saw him and offered him a sitcom for NBC.

This match itself was most notable for the fact that it took place in Sylvan's hometown of Montreal, Québec, Canada, and saw Sylvan receive an overwhelmingly positive reaction from the crowd, including a roaring ovation at almost everything he said and did for the biggest pop of the night.

The final, held in Montreal, saw an all-time record 13, 648 fans at Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard Stadium ( whose seating capacity for the day was adjusted from 10, 100 ).

The facility arose out of a 1942 collaboration between British and Canadian nuclear researchers which saw a Montreal research laboratory established under the National Research Council of Canada ( NRC ).

His efforts saw the Bank formally relocate its head office in 1907 to St. James Street in Montreal, following which he induced the prominent Montreal business magnate Herbert S. Holt to accept an appointment as the bank's new president.

He was called up to the Habs just as World War I was ending and saw action in 3 games in the 1918-19 campaign for Montreal.

Throughout the first period he was taunted and pelted with debris by outraged Montreal fans, who saw him as a prime example of the city's English-Canadian elite oppressing the French-Canadian majority.

Throughout the first period he was taunted and pelted with debris by outraged Montreal fans, who saw him as a prime example of the city's English-Canadian elite oppressing the French-Canadian majority.

Brian Bradley's NHL debut came in the 1985 – 86 season with the Calgary Flames, where he saw very limited action ( only 5 regular season games and one playoff game ), although his first playoff game was during the 1986 Stanley Cup Finals against the Montreal Canadiens.

In 2002, the Montreal municipal mergers saw the city of Verdun become a borough of Montreal.