The informal name for the Montreal Canadiens, one of the NHL's most storied franchises and the winningest team in Stanley Cup history. In Canadian hockey culture 'the Canadiens' is always understood to mean the Montreal club without any further specification needed. The French spelling signals the team's cultural identity as the flagship team of French Canada and the province of Quebec.
He grew up in Montreal rooting for the Canadiens, which in his family was less a choice than a birthright.
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(Canada) the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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