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Looking back at the Canadiens 75th anniversary

Newsy Lalonde was a natural choice to replace Hart, who found the expanding season schedule to be too grueling to encompass his growing outside interests. As Lalonde had left the Canadiens in the trade for Aurel Joliat eleven seasons earlier, there were no present Canadiens players acquainted with his temperment from that era. They would soon learn the demanding Lalonde was a difficult to please taskmaster.

Back in November of 1932, then Canadiens owners Leo Dandurand and Joe Cattarinich claimed they would not sell their club for $300,000 in the midst of the Depression, if offered the money. Two years earlier, in 1930, they had turned down an official offer of $600,000 by an unamed American consortium.

Conrad Poirier was a photographer who snapped thousands of very well known photos between 1936 and 1946 from many regions across the province of Quebec. Whether shooting outdoor scenes of...

There is a popular myth, longstanding in fact, and surely perpetrated by decades of Maple Leafs frustration that the Montreal Canadiens superiority from the early 1950's to the late 1970's was due...

Montreal Canadiens great, Edouard Charles "Newsy" Lalonde was a premier player in the pre-NHL era of hockey in the early 1900's.Lalonde excelled at both hockey and lacrosse. He is recognized by the...

Two shocking blockbuster trades, with opposite results, highlighted the Canadiens 1922-23 season.On November 3, Canadiens owner Jos Cattarinich announced to much consternation and fan outcry, that...

After a span of several seasons in which the Canadiens roster saw hardly any changes, a youth movement of sorts, begun in 1922, had a dramatic effect on the team's fortunes for the 1923-24...

When the defending Stanley Cup champion Canadiens took to the ice for the 1924-25 season, both the NHL and the Montreal hockey landscape had a very different look.To suggest the business of hockey...

Changes on the Montreal hockey scene that were viewed as significant prior to the start of the 1924-25 NHL campaign, perhaps paled next what occured in the city in this season. While the NHL...