The Montreal Canadiens Celebrate 100 Years

The 2008-09 season is a big one for the Montreal Canadiens, as 2009 marks the “original 6” team’s one-hundredth year as a franchise. To acknowledge this milestone, Montreal’s Bell Centre will host the 57th annual NHL All-Star game on January 25 and the 59th Entry Draft in June.

The Canadiens have also made some significant transactions in the 2008-09 off-season. Though the team did not capture Mats Sundin as it had hoped, the Canadiens managed to sign veteran forwards Robert Lang and Alex Tanguay and enforcer George Laraque to lucrative contracts.

Lang, Tanguay and Laraque now join an already impressive Canadiens lineup, which includes Andrei Markov, Saku Koivu and Alex Kovalev. The lineup also includes young goaltender Casey Price in net. The 2008-09 season will mark the Vancouver-born goaltender’s second season as both a Canadien and a professional hockey player. In his rookie year last year, Price recorded a 0.920 Save Percentage and a 2.56 Goals Against Average.

With the 2008-09 season now well underway, the Montreal Canadiens find themselves sitting in one of the top spots in both their division and conference. Last year, the Canadiens made it to the playoffs, but lost in the conference semifinals, to the Philadelphia Flyers. This year’s team will look to go two steps further and bring the Stanley Cup to Montreal for the first time since 1993.

Montreal Canadiens 2008/2009 Schedule:

Dec 18 PHILADELPHIA FLYERS 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Dec 20 BUFFALO SABRES 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Dec 21 CAROLINA HURRICANES 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Dec 27 @PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 7:00 PM
Dec 29 @FLORIDA PANTHERS 7:30 PM
Dec 30 @TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING 7:30 PM
Jan 2 @NEW JERSEY DEVILS 7:00 PM
Jan 4 FLORIDA PANTHERS 2:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Jan 7 @NEW YORK RANGERS 7:30 PM
Jan 8 TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS 7:30 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Jan 10 WASHINGTON CAPITALS 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Jan 13 @BOSTON BRUINS 7:00 PM
Jan 15 NASHVILLE PREDATORS 7:30 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Jan 17 @OTTAWA SENATORS 7:00 PM
Jan 20 @ATLANTA THRASHERS 7:00 PM
Jan 21 @NEW JERSEY DEVILS 7:00 PM

Jan 24 – NHL All Star Weekend – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL

Jan 27 @TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING 7:30 PM
Jan 29 @FLORIDA PANTHERS 7:00 PM
Jan 31 LOS ANGELES KINGS 2:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Feb 1 BOSTON BRUINS 2:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Feb 3 PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 7:30 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Feb 6 @BUFFALO SABRES 7:30 PM
Feb 7 TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Feb 9 @CALGARY FLAMES 9:00 PM
Feb 11 @EDMONTON OILERS 10:00 PM
Feb 13 @COLORADO AVALANCHE 9:00 PM
Feb 15 @VANCOUVER CANUCKS 10:00 PM
Feb 18 @WASHINGTON CAPITALS 7:30 PM
Feb 19 @PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Feb 21 OTTAWA SENATORS 3:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Feb 24 VANCOUVER CANUCKS 7:30 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Feb 27 @PHILADELPHIA FLYERS 7:00 PM
Feb 28 SAN JOSE SHARKS 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Mar 4 @BUFFALO SABRES 7:30 PM
Mar 6 @ATLANTA THRASHERS 7:30 PM
Mar 8 @DALLAS STARS 6:00 PM
Mar 10 EDMONTON OILERS 7:30 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Mar 12 NEW YORK ISLANDERS 7:30 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Mar 14 NEW JERSEY DEVILS 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Mar 17 NEW YORK RANGERS 7:30 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Mar 19 @OTTAWA SENATORS 7:30 PM
Mar 21 TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Mar 24 ATLANTA THRASHERS 7:30 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Mar 26 TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING 7:30 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Mar 28 BUFFALO SABRES 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Mar 31 CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS 7:30 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Apr 2 @NEW YORK ISLANDERS 7:00 PM
Apr 4 @TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Apr 6 OTTAWA SENATORS 7:30 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL
Apr 7 @NEW YORK RANGERS 7:00 PM
Apr 9 @BOSTON BRUINS 7:00 PM
Apr 11 PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 7:00 PM – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL

June 25 – NHL Entry Draft – BELL CENTRE, MONTREAL

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