Watch the Montreal Canadians Alumni Skate 2013

Canadiens alumni and the Greatest NHL Stars squared off at “La Classique des Étoiles L’Équipeur”, to benefit Charities.
http://www.allhabs.net/canadiens-press-release/canadiens-alumni-vs-greatest-nhl-stars-to-benefit-charities/


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Watch Pregame Warm up; Montreal Canadiens Alumni vs Greatest hockey Stars- Bell Center 2013

Canadiens alumni and the Greatest NHL Stars squared off at “La Classique des Étoiles L’Équipeur”, to benefit Charities.
http://www.allhabs.net/canadiens-press-release/canadiens-alumni-vs-greatest-nhl-stars-to-benefit-charities/




Hockey fans where treated with the chance to see some of their favorite players from the 80s and 90s, as La Classique des Étoiles l’Équipeur got underway on the Bell Centre ice in Montreal.
Watch Pregame Warm up.

The team will be coached by all-time legend Guy Lafleur.

Denis Savard, Vincent Damphousse, Donald Audette, Chris Chelios, Chris Nilan, Guy Carbonneau, Stéphane Richer, Mathieu Dandenault, Steve Shutt, Richard Sévigny, Sergio Momesso and Alex Kovalev. 

The Greatest Hockey Stars line-up 

Dino Ciccarelli, Marcel Dionne, Michel Goulet, Bryan Trottier, Glenn Anderson andPeter Stastny. 

Eric Lindros,Raymond Bourque, Theoren Fleury, Luc Robitaille, Brian Leetch and Valeri Bure whose combined record stands at 1,424 goals and 3,795 points. Netminder Curtis « CuJo » Joseph will be between the pipes for the Greatest Hockey Stars who will be coached by Michel Bergeron and Jacques Demers.

Watch The First Plaque NHL was founded in 1917 ; Windsor Hotel

By Samuel Ezerzer
Radio show host and Blogger

History of the National Hockey League 1917–1942

SOURCE FROM WIKIPIDIA

  

The Plaque where  the NHL was founded in 1917 "The Windsor Hotel "

The National Hockey League (NHL) was founded in 1917 following the demise of its predecessor league, the National Hockey Association (NHA). In an effort to remove Eddie Livingstone as owner of the Toronto Blueshirts, a majority of the NHA franchises (the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs) suspended the NHA and formed the new NHL. Quebec, while a member, did not operate in the NHL for the first two years. Instead the owners of the Toronto Arena Gardens operated a new Toronto franchise. While the NHL was intended as a temporary measure, the continuing dispute with Livingstone led to the four NHA owners meeting and making the suspension of the NHA permanent one year later.

When was the world's first NHL game?

The National Hockey League was formed on November 26, 1917 and the first NHL season began on December 19, 1917.

There were two games held on December 19, 1917.

Game one had the Montreal Wanderers defeat the Toronto Arenas, 10-9 and saw Dave Ritchie of Montreal score the first goal in NHL history, an event that was witnessed by a lowly 700 fans.

In the second game the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Ottawa Senators, 7-4.

The 1917-18 Montreal Wanderers

Founded 1911

History Toronto Blueshirts 1912–13 -1917–18

Home Arena Arena Gardens

City Toronto, Ontario

Colours Blue

Owner(s) Percy Quinn 1911–13,

Frank Robinson 1913–15,

Eddie Livingstone 1915–?

Stanley Cups 1913–14, 1917–18

The Toronto Hockey Club, known as the Toronto's and the Toronto Blueshirts were a professional National Hockey Association team that played in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The club won the Stanley Cup in 1914, before becoming the center of controversy among st National Hockey Association owners leading to the NHA suspending operations and the owners forming the National Hockey League. The franchise was taken away from its owner in 1917 and the Toronto players played in the NHL in 1917–18 as the Toronto's, winning the Stanley Cup again under temporary ownership. The temporary operators then formed an official franchise for the 1918–19 season that eventually evolved into today's Toronto Maple Leafs.

The Toronto's, Stanley Cup champions 1913-14

Toronto Blueshirts 

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History of the Montreal Canadiens

source Wikipedia




The Canadiens played their first game on January 5, 1910, coached by Jack Laviolette. Before a sellout crowd of 3,000, they defeated Cobalt 7–6 in overtime.[13] The victory was erased from the history books shortly after, as the CHA collapsed after only two weeks of play, and the NHA chose to restart the season after absorbing the CHA's Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Shamrocks.[14] The Canadiens' first game of the new season was played January 19, a 9–4 loss to the Renfrew Creamery Kings.[15] They lost three more games before finally recording their first victory of the new season on February 7, when they defeated the Haileybury Hockey Club by a score of 9–7.[16] They won only two of their 12 games that season, and finished last in the eight-team league.[17]

George Kennedy, owner of the Club Athlétique Canadien (CAC), claimed rights to the "Canadiens" team name following the season.[18]He settled the dispute by buying the team from O'Brien for $7,500.[19] That same year, the team adopted its now-famous red sweater with a blue stripe across the front. In the middle of the stripe was an elongated red C encompassing a red A to represent the CAC.[20]
The Canadiens reached the playoffs for the first time in 1913–14 when they tied the Toronto Blueshirts for the league lead with 26 points. The two teams played a two-game series for the championship, with the winner based on total goals. Georges Vezina shut out the Blueshirts 2–0 in the first game, but the Canadiens were defeated 6–0 in the second and lost the series.[21] Two years later, in 1915–16, the Canadiens won the NHA championship, the O'Brien Cup, with a 16–7–1 record, three wins better than the second place Senators. The title earned the Canadiens their first berth in the Stanley Cup Finals, where they faced the Portland Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA). With the best-of-five series tied at two wins apiece, the deciding game was held at Westmount Arena in Montreal on March 30, 1916. Montreal's Goldie Prodgers scored the winning goal with less than four minutes to play, giving the Canadiens their first Stanley Cup championship.[22]

In 1916, the CAC faced financial difficulty after a January fire destroyed its gymnasium and the Montreal Canadians lacrosse team failed. Kennedy separated the hockey club from the CAC and incorporated it in March 1916 as "Le club de Hockey Canadien". The Canadiens changed their logo to a red "C" interlocked with a white "H".[23] The H in the logo stands for "hockey," though the long standing misconception that it stands for "Habitants" led to the team being nicknamed "the Habs".[24]
The NHA met its demise in the winter of 1917 following several long-running disputes between Blueshirts owner Eddie Livingstone and the league's other four teams over who owned the rights to various players.[25] Kennedy especially disliked Livingstone, and the two nearly came to blows numerous times during league meetings.[26] However, the Canadiens, Wanderers, Senators and Quebec Bulldogs discovered that while they were united in their distaste for Livingstone, the league constitution didn't allow them to simply vote him out. To solve this problem, on November 26 they created a new league, the National Hockey League (NHL), and didn't invite Livingstone to join them. They nominally remained members of the NHA and had enough votes to suspend the league's operations, effectively leaving Livingstone in a one-team league. Kennedy was the dominant force in the new league; he not only owned the Canadiens but had fronted Tommy Gorman the money he'd used to buy the Senators.[27] However, the four teams realized it would be unthinkable not to have a team from Toronto in their league. They also needed a fourth team to balance the schedule after financial difficulties forced the Bulldogs to suspend operations (as it turned out, they wouldn't take the ice until 1919). With this in mind, they granted a "temporary" franchise to the Toronto Arena Company, which eventually evolved into the Canadiens' bitter rivals, the Toronto Maple Leafs.[28]

Georges Vezina played 16 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens between 1910 and 1925. The Vezina Trophy is named after him.

NHL Lockout ; Better Than Never !

THE HOCKEY LOCKOUT IS OVER LETS PLAY THE GAME!

NHL is Back, but will hockey Fans leave the game? 
Will Hockey fans Forgive?

PART 1 VIDEO OF BRINGING BACK OUR NATIONAL PRIDE

HOCKEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZOdWRXuBl4
highlights of some raction on CJAD 800 Radio when I was driving and heard the news!

Will Hockey fans Forgive?
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I was so happy to hear that hockey is back , yes I will forgive 



The main highlights from the deal, according to reports so far:




— The CBA will run for 10 years through 2021-22, with an option to terminate the deal after eight years.



— Players receive defined benefit pension plan.

— Owners and players split revenue 50-50 each season, with the players receiving $300 million in deferred "make-whole payments" to ease the transition from previous system.




— A pro-rated salary cap of $70.2-million for the shortened 2012-13 season followed by a salary cap of $64.3-million in 2013-14. The salary floor will be set at $44 million for both years.


— Seven-year limit on free-agent contracts (eight-year limit when a team signs its own player to an extension).




— A maximum salary variance of 35 per cent from year to year, with no more than a 50 per cent total difference between any two seasons in the contract.

— The minimum salary starts at $525,000 this season and reaches $750,000 for the 10th and final year of the agreement.


— Teams can only walk away from a player in salary arbitration who is awarded at least $3.5 million.

— Each team will be given the option of two "amnesty buyouts" that can be used to terminate contracts prior to the 2013-14 season or 2014-15 season. The buyouts will cost two-thirds of the remaining amount on a deal — paid evenly over twice its remaining length — and will count against the players' overall share in revenues, but not the individual team's salary cap.


— Revenue sharing between teams increased to $200 million annually.



— Any player on a one-way contract who plays in the American Hockey League with a salary in excess of the NHL's minimum salary plus $375,000 will have the excess amount charged against his team's salary cap.


— Unrestricted free agency continues to open on July 1.






— The participation of NHLers in future Olympics has yet to be determined. The decision will be made outside of the CBA.

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