It’s time, kids. Let’s get to the biggie.
The Montreal Canadiens
Montreal is a truly beautiful city, especially if you like Subway restaurants and strip clubs, and who doesn’t? Its buildings trace a legacy of culture and cosmopolitan exchange against the skyline which is—ah, fuck, it’s snowing again? Its streets echo with the steps of generations who have passed through this timeless place, and also the dubiously essential roadwork that is paid for by a sweaty bureaucrat named Jacques picking up a briefcase in a bathroom on Rue Ste. Catherine. Even if it’s been surpassed in population, influence, money, and the ability to turn right on a red light by Toronto, Montreal remains a great reminder of how a thing can have been cool at one point even if it’s obviously in decline and has been for decades.