Lighting the Lamp with Rick Ackerman
There is no team in the NHL with a greater history and heritage than the Montreal Canadiens. Founded in 1909 as a charter member of the National Hockey Association, le Club de hockey Canadien is the only existing NHL team to predate the founding of the league and has won more Stanley Cups (24) than any other franchise. Montreal won its first Cup in 1916, first NHL Cup in 1924 and its last in 1993. Yes, much to the chagrin of proud Montreal hockey fanatics, it has been almost 23 years since Lord Stanley's Cup has been paraded down Ste-Catherine West to the old Montreal Forum or down le Avenue des Canadiens-de-Montreal to the Centre Bell.