Your Montreal Canadiens reliably invoke history during such occasions. And once the music stops and the puck drops, the current team will have a chance to make some history of their own.
A win over the Rangers would be the Canadiens’ fifth straight W to start the season. This has never been done in the long, mostly glorious, 24-Stanley Cup history of hockey’s greatest franchise.
The Canadiens began the 1955-’56 season with four straight wins before tying the Blackhawks 2-2 in Chicago.
The ’70-’71 Canadiens won four, then lost their fifth game 1-0 to the Rangers at the Forum.