What hockey team is referred to as the habs??
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That will be the Montreal Canadiens...
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Montreal Canadians have 25 Stanley cups but they were not called the Canadians all the way through and at the begining of the NHL there were only 6 teams so it was a lot easier to win. Second behind them is the Toronto maple leafs my home team and soon to be out of the play-offs :)
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Well, I can't really imagine that you are satisfied with the wide array of responses up above as neither they really address the question or even attempt to back it up whatsoever.  So here it is:\n\nThere has and always will be a debate over who is the greatest NHL team of all-time.  If you are wondering what has been the winniest franchise throughout history, it would be the Montreal Canadiens, who have won 24 Stanley Cups since 1917 when the NHL began it's official operations.  Next closest is the Toronto Maple Leafs with something like 12, but who really cares because they haven't won it since like 1967 and probably never will again at the rate that they are going.\n\nBut the best team of players ever assembled.  If you would like to read what Sports Illustrated's Tom Layberger has said on the subject, go to this link:\n\nhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/tom_layberger/03/01/dominant.teams/\n\nHe lays out the top 10 teams of all-time in great detail.\n\nIf you want my opinion and likely anyone else with half a hockey brain to name the best team of all-time it would have to be the Edmonton Oilers between 1983-1984, 1984-1985.  They were stacked:  \nGrant Fuhr - a stone wall of a goalie, \nMark Messier - A solid skating, shit-kicking centre, \nGlenn Anderson - high speed winger, \nPaul Coffey - arguably to this day the greatest defenceman of all-time, \nKevin Lowe - current GM of the Edmonton Oilers, \nEsa Tikkanen, Old school version of Ville Nimmenen - annoying Finn player who scores goals and plays cagy defence, \nJari Kurri - the all-time leading Finnish points leader, who ALWAYS found the back of the net in clutch times,\nAnd all coached by Glen Sather - a revolutionary coach who demanded the best of his players and competed to always win.\n\nI am of course omitting one name:\nWayne Gretzky is undisputably the greatest NHL hockey player of all-time.  "The great one" holds more hockey scoring records than entire other teams combined.  Entire pages have been re-written into the record books and there they will remain in stone as they will never be broken.  His single season record of 212 points in a season will likely never be broken; 50 goals in 35 games is completely untouchable, and the fact is, he managed to amass these massive point totals over years and in clutch times in the playoffs as well.\n\nGretzky revolutionized hockey in a way that one way ever has before.  His quote:  "Well, I think an assist is just as good as a goal." is often repeated in minor hockey arenas.  His idea of using the boards, behind the net, other players' skates/bodies is completely unparalled.  He was fast, had a deadly accurate shot, and made behind the back passes while looking the other way to teammates who were practically too stunned to do anything about it.\n\nI saw Gretzky once score a goal right off the face-off.  That's how good he was.  I remember when he used to shoot the puck down the ice like it was icing, only to see it bounce in a funny way off the boards and straight to Jari Kurri for an easy tap-in.  Dude, Gretzky was seriously ridiculously good.  \n\nNow, the Edmonton Oilers won the cup 4 out of 5 years, between 83 and 88, although interestingly lost out in the 1985-1986 season in one of the most famed playoff series of all-time:\n  \nIn game 7 in the opening round against their arch-rivals The Calgary Flames, with 2.4 seconds left, Steve Smith (a defenceman for the Oilers) skated around the net in his own zone and in a completely harmless play accidentally passed the puck into his own net!  This play has been re-shown and re-played probably 1,000,000 times to hockey fans everywhere and became fashionable to say:  "To pull a Steve Smith."  The fans went nuts of course, and so did the media who of course expected the Oilers to coast to an easy 3rd straight Stanley Cup.\n\nAnd do you know how classy Wayne Gretzky is?  He said to the media, to the fans, to the
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Hockey, by a mile!  It's fast.  It's exciting.  It makes me jump on my couch and scream: Let's go Rangers!!!\n\nWhy do I love hockey?  Here are a few reasons:\n\nJagr, Lundqvist, Prucha, Malik, Kasparitis, Sykora, Nylander, Ward, Moore, Ortmeyer, Hollweg, Straka, Rucinsky, Ruccin ... and so on.
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They suck!!!! this coming from a habs fan he eh
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nope. no NHL team.  There are 4 WHL teams, tho.\n\nSeattle Thunderbirds\nEverett Silvertips\nSpokane Chiefs\nTri Cities Americans
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THE SABRES ARE THE # 1 TEAM IN HOCKEY \n\n    THEY R 11-1-1 OVERTIME WIN\n\n\n\n       GO 2 ESPN.COM 4 ALL SPORTS NEEDS\n\n             THIS WILL HELP YOU\n\n             \n\n                  KINGAR1
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The Montreal Canadiens...duhh. Who hasn't?? They're one of the oldest hockey teams and have won the Stanley Cup more times than any other team. Oh yeah, they were here in Raleigh about a month ago, and the Hurricanes kicked them out of the playoffs ;)
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bfren1 is obviously a hockey expert \n ;) \nGreg?!?!?  lol \nit is CRAIG MACTAVISH\n\nthe OILERS CAN WIN THE STANLEY CUP!
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Henri " The Pocket" Ricard 11 Stanley Cup's with the Montreal Canadiens. that wasn't a hard one at all, you get someone that knows hockey its one of the easier questions out there, nice try to make us think.\n\n\nGO HABS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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The answer is........OILERS\n\nand by the way to add to the person above me, the roadrunners played out of toronto and then moved to edmonton
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CAROLINA HURRICANES !
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C'est le gardien de l'équipe des canadiens de Montreal en NHL. Un des meilleurs de la ligue, malheureusement en France la NHL ou le hockey ne sont pas médiatiques.
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Check this:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey
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les habitants du montreal... the habs. here's a cut and paste job that tells more:\n\nThe most often asked question about the Montreal Canadiens is what does the nickname " Habs " mean. \n\nLegend wants it that the "H" on the Canadiens logo stands for "Habs" instead of Club de Hockey Canadien. The fable began in 1924 when US reporter Tex Rickard was falsely informed by someone that the "H" stood for "habitant", a french word that in those days was used to refer the farmers of Quebec. \n\nRickard was told that the french players on the team came from farms and were therefore, "habitants". At the time, the Canadiens were viewed upon as the french team of Montreal, whereas the Montreal Maroons were the English team.
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JB is 100% correct.  but actually it started because a reporter by the name of Tex Rickard was misinformed of the H meaning "habitants" when they were referring to the farmers and them being there in canada since the land was first owned by the french.  But was actually first intentionally represented as "Club de Hockey of Canada."  and the H was for Hockey, C for Canada but has since developed into habitants because of that Tex dude.
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Montreal Canadiens 24 times. the last time was in 1993