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Legend has it
that the "H" on the Canadiens logo stands for "Habs"
instead of "Hockey" as in Club de Hockey Canadien. In 1924,
Madison Square Garden owner Tex Rickard was falsely told by someone that
the "H" stood for "habitant", a French word that in
those days was used to denote the farmers of Quebec.
Rickard was told that the French players on the team came from the farms
and that they were therefore "habitants" or "Habs".
At the time, the Canadiens were considered Montreal's "French"
team, as opposed to the primairly "English" Montreal Maroons. |