MONTREAL --It was played a half-century and thousands of games ago, so you'd cut Scotty Bowman some slack if he had only sketchy memories of it. But leave it to the man referred to by a former player ...

1969 Montreal Canadiens Facing the challenging task of replacing the legendary Toe Blake behind the Canadiens bench at the start of the season, rookie coach Claude Ruel led Montreal to a ...

Over two days in 1969, reports from the NHL League meetings in Montreal moved from Vancouver, Baltimore and Cleveland as being in the lead for an NHL club. It was also reported that the men who ...