2008-09 NHL Season Off to an Exciting Start

2009 marks the 91st anniversary of the NHL as a league and the centennial anniversary of the Montreal Canadiens as a franchise. To celebrate this once in a lifetime occasion, Montreal’s Bell Centre will play host to this year’s All-Star Game in January and the 2009 Entry Draft in June.

This year’s season will also feature the second annual NHL Winter Classic, which will see two classic NHL’s teams playing hockey the way it was originally meant to be played – in the great outdoors. In this year’s Winter Classic, the Chicago Blackhawks will take on the Detroit Red Wings, in Chicago’s famous Wrigley Field, home to Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs. The match-up will be not only exciting and entertaining, but historic, as these two “Original Six” teams play to remind fans what the game of hockey is all about.

In terms of standings so far this season, the San Jose Sharks, Detroit Red Wings, Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers and Washington Capitals are among the top teams speculated to bring home this year’s cup. Nicklas Lidstrom and his defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings will look to defend their title and bring the cup back to Detroit for the twelfth time in franchise history. It won’t be easy though, as top teams like the Vancouver Canucks, who have never won a Stanley Cup before, are hungrier and closer than ever to the ultimate prize.

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