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Image source: chicagotribune.com Pietro Triassi loves the  Montreal Canadiens. As a Montreal native himself, he has learned all he can about the beloved Canadian hockey team, and still continues to do so. Over the past few months, Pietro Triassi has started a series of blogs in which he shares his knowledge about the team. Today, he pays homage to Canadiens’ resiliency by blogging about the team’s road back to glory in the ‘70s. When one reads about the domination the Canadiens had on the NFL in the ‘70s, it doesn’t really make sense that, a year before the decade, they missed the playoffs. In the 1969-1970 season, the New York Rangers stole their playoff spot, and for the first time since 1948, the Canadiens would not make it into the post-season. The next season, however, Pietro Triassi says things would change. Al MacNeil used Ken Dryden as the team's starting goaltender in the playoffs. It was a bold move as Dryden, a rookie, had only played in six NHL games u...

Image source: pinterest.com  Pietro Triassi is Montreal native who is an absolute fanatic for the city’s hockey team, the Montreal Canadiens. He always takes the time to write blogs about the organization to share his passion for the team to everyone everywhere.  For today’s blog, Pietro Triassi looks at the golden age of the Canadiens, an age which spanned nearly four decades. The 1940s In the 1940s, the Montreal Canadiens on the strength of their three stars, Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Toe Blake, and Elmer Lach, otherwise known as the "Punch Line," dominated the competition and became champions. The 1950s From 1953 to 1960, the Montreal Canadiens went through their most successful run, winning six Stanley Cups, which included a record of five straight championships from 1955 to 1960. During this time, young talent skated at the core of the team’s success. Among them were Jean Beliveau, Dickie Moore, Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Doug Harvey,...

Pietro Triassi is one of the biggest Montreal Canadiens fans in the world. He loves everything about the organization, from its history to its current line-up.  For today's blog, Pietro Triassi discusses the Montreal Canadiens' colors and uniforms, which he is proud to wear whenever he can. The letters "C" and "H" People first saw the "C" and "H" of the Montreal Canadiens during the 1917-18 season when the team changed its name from Club athlétique Canadien to Club de hockey Canadien. In the mid-20th century, in '52, the letters officially became the logo of the team. Blue, red, and white The blue, red, and white predate even the letters "C" and "H" in Canadiens history, Pietro Triassi notes. The home jersey is mostly red with four white and blue stripes across the arms, chest, and waist. The team's away jersey is predominantly white with a red and blue stripe across the waist. There are also r...

Image source: cbc.ca If you watch every highlight reel ever made by fans or professionals, there are several moments that gets repeated in these clips. But for a team like the Montreal Canadiens, this might be impossible given the team’s illustrious history and the fact that a lot of the great moments were not shown on TV. But what fans have seen so far is still worth celebrating. Long-time Canadiens fan Pietro Triassi of Montreal City shares the 5 moments that will live forever in the hearts of Montreal Canadiens fans. Passing the torch For 72 years, the Montreal Canadiens called The Montreal Forum their home. Here, they won over 1,500 matches and 22 Stanley Cups. But after a 4-1 win against the Dallas Stars in 1996, the team bid farewell to the stadium in a Passing the Torch ceremony led by former team captains like Emile Bouchard to Maurice Richard himself. 5-peat In 1960, the Canadiens had a chance to win their 5th Stanley Cup in a row. But standing in their way in the finals was ...

The Montreal Canadiens have a lot to celebrate, what with their clear domination in the sport of hockey. While it has always been fun for Montreal fans to cheer on when players from their fold are able to achieve great things, they also appreciate their rivals who made the game much more exciting. Pietro Triassi of Montreal shares come facts about hockey’s GOAT, Wayne Gretzky. 1. Wayne Gretzky remains as the only NHL player to garner over 200 points in a single season. In the NHL, when a player scores a goal, he gets a point. When the player assists on a goal, he is also awarded a point for it. Gretzky was a good scorer and passer, which made him rack up the many points under his name.  2. Wayne Gretzky is the most illustrious MVP to ever have won the award in any major sport. With 9 MVP awards under his belt, no other athlete has matched his greatness even in other leagues like the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, and even Major League Baseba...

Greatest players in Montreal Canadiens history Image source: bleacherreport.com For more than a hundred years, the NHL team Montreal Canadiens have given the sport so much in terms of entertainment, athleticism, and heart. Over the years, the franchise has given hardcore hockey fans and Canadiens fans like Pietro Triassi of Montreal people to look up to and root for every time there's a game. Here are some of the greatest players in the Montreal Canadiens locker history. Henri Richard : Often described as the greatest Canadiens player who has ever touched the ice, Richard began his career with a five-year Stanley Cup-winning streak. And by the time he retired after 20 seasons, he would win 11 Stanley Cups, including two cup-winning goals. He has a record of most seasons, most games, and most minutes played in all of the Canadiens history. Image source: bleacherreport.com Guy Lafleur : Known as the greatest scorer the likes of Canadiens fan Pietro Trassi o...

Image source: nhl.com It’s no secret that Pietro Triassi is a huge Montreal Canadiens fan. He has cheered for the team since he was a kid, and today, Pietro shares his passion with people online through the series of blogs he releases. On this blog, Pietro looks back at the roller coaster final two decades of the previous century wherein the Canadiens experienced some of the best and some of their worst years. While many sportswriters and Canadiens fans regarded the 1940s up to the end of the 1970s as the greatest decades in franchise history, the team struggled to stay consistent in the 20 years that followed. Image source: seatgeek.com Although the team still kept their streak of winning the Stanley Cup at least once a decade with titles in 1986 in 1993, many thanks to their legendary goaltender Patrick Roy, they still paled in comparison to the success the team had in the '70s, which had rocketed expectations. To compound matters, Patrick Roy left the team...