Montreal Canadiens ticket and team info

Call them Le Club de Hockey Canadien, the Flying Frenchmen, the Habs, or Le Bleu-Blanc-et-Rouge. No matter how you spell it, this hockey club is the oldest franchise in the NHL and one of the elite teams today. Montreal Canadiens tickets to the Bell Centre are the hottest tickets in town. The Canadiens sell out every game, despite not winning a Stanley Cup in thirteen long years. In fact, they were the last Canadian team to take home the Cup. Fans can sense that this may be the year that that Habs take the Cup back to Canada for a mind-boggling 25th time.

The Star
Some say that Habs right winger Alexi Kovalev is starting to decline, but his magical performances on the ice tell the fans that he's still got it. The gifted puck-handler scored his 300th goal and 700th point last year with the Canadiens and is poised to keep adding to those totals. Kovalev was the first Russian to be taken in the first round of the NHL draft, and holds an even greater honor for his countrymen: in 1994 with the New York Rangers, he became one of the first four Russians to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup. He's tasted victory before, and longs to hoist the Cup once more before he retires.

The Coach
This year Guy Carbonneau takes over full-time as head coach of the Habs. Regarded as one of the best defensive forwards to play the game, he's the 28th man to lead the Canadiens from behind the bench. He's got three Stanley Cup rings to his name, two of them as a center for the Habs, so he's no stranger to winning or to this historic team. It's a perfect fit. He's a local hero, and the fans are glad to have his leadership skills behind the bench. He's got the smarts, the talent, and that certain "je ne sais quoi" necessary to take a team all the way.

The Team
On offense, the Canadiens are quick, speedy, skilled and ready for life in the new NHL. You can be sure that Carbonneau will instill in the team the importance of a solid defense, and they have one of the best defensemen in the game in Andrei Markov. With just the right mix of youth, skill, and experience, the Montreal Canadiens are the hottest ticket in the NHL!
 

Montreal Canadiens info

Montreal Canadiens tickets may be the greatest NHL tickets around. It’s hard to dispute 24 Stanley Cups. The question is: Will the 2005 Canadiens live up to the hype that surrounds what may be the most dominant franchise in sports history? There are good reasons to believe that the Canadiens are on the way back. The road to the Stanley Cup goes through the Bell Center, and NHL hocked fans that want witness this should pick up their Montreal Canadiens tickets today.

First of all, Bob Gainey is in his second year as GM. His first outing at the helm resulted in a significant improvement for the Canadiens, who posted a 41-30-7-4 record after failing to reach .500-mark the previous year. Gainey’s Canadiens defeated a heavily favored Boston Bruins team before falling to the eventual Stanley Cup winner Tampa Bay Lightning in the second.

Gainey, along with head coach Claude Julien, now has one of the league’s better goalkeepers in Jose Theodore, a defense that should improve steadily, and a pair of forwards in Saku Koivu and Mike Ribeiro that provided 34 goals and 86 assists in their last season on the ice. On defense, the Canadiens will be looking to Sheldon Souray to repeat a fine 2004 season. They also stepped outside the organization to bring in Mathieu Dandenault, a veteran of nine seasons, from the Detroit Red Wings. Dandenault will make his mark with the Canadiens on defense, although he does have good offensive ability.

Trying to live up to the Canadiens history is a formidable task. The Canadiens have appeared in 35 Stanley Cup Finals while winning 24 of them. 33 Division Championships and 77 playoff appearances give Montreal more history than any NHL team around. Their last Stanley Cup came in 1993, as they bested Wayne Gretsky and the Los Angeles Kings in a five-game series.

Montreal Canadiens tickets are always at the top of the NHL ticket list. The Canadiens have given more back to their fans than any other NHL franchise. In the 2005-2006 NHL season, the Canadiens may once again give their fans a Stanley Cup. Join the rest of the hockey world as they watch the NHL’s most legendary franchise take to the ice at the Bell Centre and delight not only fans with Montreal Canadiens tickets but the entire hockey universe.