Spectator Sports
Few would argue with the assertion that Canadians are perhaps the best hockey players in the world and that Canadian hockey fans are the most loyal and discriminating sports fans anywhere. Indeed, hockey belongs to Canada. And although no sport is likely to match hockey on Montréal’s
popularity scale, a handful of other professional sports ably compete to fill gaps on the entertainment bill.
Football
The Montréal Alouettes (Larks) play in the Canadian Football League from mid-June to mid-November at Percival Molson Stadium; phone (514) 871-2255.
Hockey Near the end of the 19th century two enterprising students at McGill University are said to have invented not only the puck but the general rules of the game of hockey as it is known today. By the time the National Hockey League (NHL) was formed in 1917, the 8-year-old Montréal
Canadiens franchise already was the pride of Montréal. The club won five consecutive Stanley Cup titles from 1956-60, an epic streak dramatized as a metaphor for Québécois pride in Rick Salutin’s play “Les Canadiens.”
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