<Tr> <Th> Official website </Th> <Td> nhl.com/canadiens </Td> </Tr> <P> The Montreal Canadiens (French: Les Canadiens de Montréal) are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec . They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). </P> <P> The club's official name is le Club de hockey Canadien . The team is frequently referred to in English and French as the Habs. French nicknames for the team include Les Canadiens (or Le Canadien), Le Bleu - Blanc - Rouge, La Sainte - Flanelle, Le Tricolore, Les Glorieux (or Nos Glorieux), Le CH, Le Grand Club and Les Habitants (from which "Habs" is derived). </P> <P> Founded in 1909, the Canadiens are the longest continuously operating professional ice hockey team worldwide, and the only existing NHL club to predate the founding of the NHL . One of the oldest North American professional sports franchises, the Canadiens' history predates that of every other Canadian franchise outside of football as well as every American franchise outside of baseball and the National Football League's Arizona Cardinals . The franchise is one of the "Original Six" teams, a description used for the teams that made up the NHL from 1942 until the 1967 expansion . The team's championship season in 1992--93 was the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup . </P>

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