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The Montreal Canadiens were founded in 1909 and play in the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Hockey League.

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Their official name is Le Club de Hockey Canadien, but they are commonly referred to as Les Canadiens de Montreal. The team's English nickname is the Habs. They play in the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which was once called the Molson Centre until 2003. Their team colors are bleu, blanc et rouge (blue, white and red.) They are the oldest franchise in the NHL, and part of the Original Six.

They hold 24 Stanley Cups, more than any other NHL team. The Toronto Maple Leafs are second with only 13. This makes the team percentage-wise, the most successful historically of any major pro sports team in North America. They hold 25.3 percent of all the Stanley Cup championships. The only other teams that are more successful are the Boston Celtics and the New York Yankees. The team's Stanley Cup win in 1992-93 was the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup in thirteen seasons.

In 1995 the Canadiens franchise missed the playoffs for the first time in 25 years. In 1996 the team held a commemorative ceremony for each former Canadiens captain where a torch was passed from the oldest to the youngest.

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Bob Gainey has made a long and winding list of things to do this offseason, and into next season. Several unrestricted free agents are about to ripen, and they threaten to drop from the Canadians' tree of hockey knowledge in the form of Sheldon Souray and Andrei Markov, among others. Gainey will not be relishing the thought of his defensive sentinels leaving the Bell Centre for pastures new. If Gainey has his way, any and all valued Canadians players will be staying right here in Montreal.

"The reason I didn't trade Sheldon at the deadline is that we want to keep him with us right here in Montreal," said Gainey. "We�ll work on holding onto our guys and we're hoping to take a few names off the list of players who will be available on July 1."

The seats of the Bell Centre may be silent this week, as fans and players head off into the boring blue yonder of their offseason, but for Gainey the brainstorming is only just beginning. There is talk of "rebuilding" at Montreal, but Gainey doesn't want to hear it; he wants to keep his team together and to march on to playoff triumph. He wants to hear the roar of those lucky enough to find Montreal Canadians tickets, raising the lid of the cauldron that is their home arena, the Bell Centre.

"All of us getting together today has more to do with me than Guy," began Gainey, sitting next to head coach Guy Carbonneau at his year-end press conference. "I'm on the podium here and I will take the responsibility of talking to all of you about this past season and what we expect for next year."

Gainey was uncompromisingly frank about the Canadians' failure to make the playoffs, and he spoke out about the technical difficulties and the hope he holds for the future for Montreal's younger players.

"We are not a rebuilding team," Gainey reiterated, in support of captain Saku Koivu, another member of the squadron who insists on cohesion and planning rather than demolition and starting from scratch. "We are a team who can supply Saku with the kind of team that will give him the opportunity to be a champion. It�s now up to us to prove to our players and those around the league that such goals can be attained here in Montreal.

"Koivu is a champion. He thinks like a champion, trains like a champion, acts like a champion, and one day he will win one. The success of our young players is thanks to leaders like Koivu being there to show them the way. They can�t develop on their own. It takes players around them that put the team first, like Koivu."

Gainey was explicit in his autopsy of the Montreal's 2006-07 season, insisting on delivering his verdict in unvarnished fashion. "I�m going to tell you exactly what I told the players this week," said Gainey. "We were a team with several important imbalances. We were incredibly strong in some areas and weak in others. We improved our play five-on-five down the stretch, we got stronger, played smarter and we almost got to the playoffs."

After lesser teams than the Canadians qualified for the playoffs, leaving the hapless skaters in La sainte flanelle to flail in their wake, Gainey and his team were left with a definite sense of underachievement, and others were quick to voice their disdain at not making the mark they knew they were capable of.

"I�m as disappointed as all of you to be meeting so early like this," commiserated head coach Carbonneau. "I'm just going to work even harder so that when we meet next year it will be in June, not April."

After an "almost-there" first season as head coach, Carbonneau is chomping at the bit, and can't wait to explode from the traps into the possibilities of next season.

"As a father I have two kids, but as a coach I have 25 kids and that was new to me," new man Carbonneau revealed. "Being a coach isn't easy but I had a lot of fun and I�m already looking forward to next year.

"I learned a lot, something new almost every day," said Carbonneau. "I�m an emotional person. That's the way I played and that's the way I coach. I don't like to lose and that made me a good player and I hope it will make me a better coach."

It's only a matter of time before the Montreal Canadians hit the glory trail, and one can only speculate how valuable Montreal Canadians tickets will become next season. The Bell Centre is set to be filled to capacity, and the seats will be rocking with expectation. Next, time, boys, next time. You know you can do it.