The Canucks and Montreal Canadiens both raised ticket prices for first round games by 50%.
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The New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawks went out in the first round.
Tortorella was no more forthcoming Tuesday night about an hour before the Rangers hosted the Montreal Canadiens.
Hicks owns baseball's Texas Rangers and the Dallas Stars of the NHL, while Gillett owns the NHL's Montreal Canadiens.
Some young fans simply transferred their NHL allegiance to the rival Montreal Canadiens, who play a mere 160 miles away.
K. Subban is back in the Montreal Canadiens lineup, although it's not clear if he'll play Saturday against the Buffalo Sabres.
The prospective candidates include former Vancouver Canucks and Montreal Canadiens head coach Alain Vigneault and former Buffalo Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff.
After the Montreal Canadiens selected him in the third round of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft, he played in the minors in New Brunswick and Quebec.
He scored 110 goals in 688 games, mostly served as the backbone of the Montreal Canadiens, but had 3, 043 penalty minutes, ninth on the career list.
And the kicker : no Canada-based club has taken the Cup since 1993, when the Montreal Canadiens wrapped up a stretch of eight Canadian Cups in ten years.
Coming off a 5-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday, the Maple Leafs didn't register a shot until just after the seven-minute mark of a sluggish opening period.
Topping the list for each sport, as of Thursday afternoon, are basketball's Los Angeles Lakers (2.98 million followers), baseball's New York Yankees (822, 000), football's New England Patriots (556, 900) and hockey's Montreal Canadiens (369, 000).
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At its core were two will-testing comebacks: the first from a two-games-to-none deficit (which the Rangers hadn't pulled off since beating the Montreal Canadiens in a 1996 series), the second from a three-games-to-two deficit.
Without a deal, clashes between the Los Angeles Kings and the New York Rangers, as well as old rivals the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens, will be cancelled, the BBC's Lee Carter reports from Toronto.
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Eight of the 20 teams on our scorecard hail from that decade: the Boston Celtics of 1984 and 1986, the Los Angeles Lakers of 1985, the Calgary Flames, and the Montreal Canadiens and San Francisco 49ers of 1989, along with the 1984 Detroit Tigers and 1986 New York Mets.
As for the NHL, the honor of best single-season team in NHL history goes to the 2001-02 Detroit Red Wings, a team that racked up 116 points (51 wins, 12 ties or overtime losses) in a league that was more balanced than it was during the mini-dynasties of the Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers that stretched from 1976 to 1990.
They dropped back to fourth behind Montreal when the Canadiens beat the Buffalo Sabres, but Boston coach Claude Julien was pleased with his team's play.
The Islanders announced the move Friday, one day after they defeated the Canadiens in Montreal.
Also planned are the redesign and creation of many public spaces as well as a number of buildings currently in development, like the Maison des Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, and the concert hall for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, scheduled to open in September.
The Devils were coming off a 4-3 overtime loss to Montreal in which they erased a 3-1 Canadiens lead in the third period.
They are tied in points with Montreal atop the Northeast Division, but have one game in hand on the Canadiens.
Only three teams, Calgary, Anaheim and the Islanders, have scored fewer, and after the Rangers' 4-0 loss in Montreal on Saturday, coach John Tortorella lamented his team's inability to match the Canadiens' collective speed and control of the flow of play.
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