We all know Canada is, along with Scotland, one of the most important ancestral homes of hockey. It's where the game as we've come to know it today was developed into modern form and perfected. We know the Stanley Cup was first awarded in Canada in 1893, and that it took 24 years for it to cross the border before the 1917 Seattle Metropolitans hoisted it before American spectators for the first time. The city of Montreal, Quebec IS hockey. Montreal is the very essence … more