50 free Montreal Canadiens trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Montreal Canadiens trivia quiz covers the oldest continuously operating hockey club in the world, from J. Ambrose O'Brien's francophone team of 1909 to the 2021 Final. It includes Howie Morenz's Forum funeral, the Punch Line, Maurice Richard's 50 in 50 and the Richard Riot, Toe Blake's eight Cups and the five straight from 1956 to 1960, Jacques Plante's mask, Jean Béliveau, the Scotty Bowman dynasty of the 1970s with Lafleur, Dryden and the 132-point season, Patrick Roy's Conn Smythes and his exit, Carey Price's four-trophy 2015 and the ownership shuffles from Molson to Gillett and back. The identity questions cover what the H in the logo really stands for, La Sainte-Flanelle, the torch and the In Flanders Fields motto, Youppi!'s league switch, the Forum's last game, the Bell Centre and the rivalries with Toronto, Boston and the Nordiques. Easy questions suit any Habs fan; the hard ones are for people who know Béliveau's Cup total as an executive. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01The Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup how many times, more than any other franchise?
24
Twenty-three came in the NHL era, and 22 since 1927, when NHL teams became the only clubs competing for the Cup.
Q 02The Canadiens were founded in 1909 as a charter member of which league?
National Hockey Association
That makes them the only existing NHL club to predate the league itself, which they helped form in 1917.
Q 03The Canadiens were founded to be the team of which group in Montreal?
French speakers
The founders wanted francophone players and, as soon as possible, francophone ownership.
Q 04The Canadiens won their first Stanley Cup in which season?
1915-16
Their first NHL-era Cup came in 1923-24, led by the Stratford Streak.
Q 05The 'H' in the Canadiens' CH logo stands for what?
Hockey
It comes from the club's 1917-18 official name; the 'Habitants' story traces to Madison Square Garden owner Tex Rickard in 1924.
Q 06The Canadiens' sweater is known in the province by what reverent nickname?
La Sainte-Flanelle
'The holy flannel' has kept essentially the same design since 1914.
Q 07The Canadiens' dressing-room motto, 'To you from failing hands we throw the torch', is from which poem?
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae wrote it in 1915, the year before the club's first Cup; the line is also stitched inside the collars of the jerseys.
Q 08Which player was the first Canadien to have his number honoured, in 1937, after dying from a broken leg?
Howie Morenz
50,000 people filed past his casket at centre ice of the Forum; the 'Stratford Streak' wore No. 7.
Q 09The Canadiens' 1940s 'Punch Line' featured Maurice Richard, Elmer Lach and whom?
Toe Blake
He later coached the club to eight Stanley Cups between 1955 and 1968.
Q 10Maurice Richard was the first NHL player to score 50 goals in a season, in how many games in 1944-45?
50
He was also the first to 500 career goals and retired in 1960 as the all-time leader with 544.
Q 11The 1955 Richard Riot at the Forum erupted after NHL president Clarence Campbell did what to the Rocket?
Suspended him for the season and playoffs
The Rocket had struck a linesman four days earlier; Campbell then dared to attend the next game at the Forum.
Q 12The Canadiens won a record five consecutive Stanley Cups over which span?
1956-1960
Béliveau, Doug Harvey, Boom Boom Geoffrion and Jacques Plante starred; the 1970s team managed four straight.
Q 13How many Stanley Cups did Toe Blake win as Canadiens coach between 1955 and 1968?
8
He had already won three as a player and was the first coach to win 500 games with one team.
Q 21Ken Dryden won the 1971 Conn Smythe before he had even won which other honour?
Rookie of the year
He played only six games that regular season; he later won six Cups, five Vezinas, and served as a Liberal cabinet minister.
Q 22Ken Dryden played at which Ivy League school, winning the 1967 NCAA title in goal?
Cornell
He won 76 of 81 varsity starts and later earned a law degree.
Q 23Patrick Roy became the youngest Conn Smythe winner ever, at 20, in which Cup-winning year?
1986
He is the only player to win it three times, in three decades, for two teams.
Q 14Jacques Plante first wore a mask in a regular-season game in 1959 after his nose was broken by whose shot?
Andy Bathgate
Coach Toe Blake had banned the mask in games since 1956, fearing it hurt Plante's vision.
Q 15'Le Gros Bill' won a record 17 Stanley Cups in total; how many came as a player?
10
The other seven came as an executive; 'Le Gros Bill' also declined an offer to become Governor General.
Q 16Which Canadiens captain won the very first Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 1965?
Jean Béliveau
He also won two Harts and the 1956 Art Ross.
Q 17The 1976-77 Canadiens set an 80-game record with how many points, a mark that stood until 2023?
132
They lost only eight games all season and went 34 games unbeaten at home; the 2022-23 Bruins finally passed the total.
Q 18How many games did the 1976-77 Canadiens lose in 80 games, still an NHL record?
8
Their +216 goal differential is also still the best ever.
Q 19Which coach led the Canadiens to five 1970s Cups and later set the NHL record for coaching wins?
Scotty Bowman
He finished with nine Cups as a coach and 1,244 regular-season wins.
Q 20Guy Lafleur was the first NHL player to do what in six consecutive seasons?
Score 50 goals and 100 points
'The Flower' from Thurso, Quebec, won five Cups and was known to French fans as le Démon Blond.
Q 24Patrick Roy's bitter 1995 exit from Montreal followed a feud with which rookie coach and former roommate?
Mario Tremblay
Left in for nine goals against Detroit, Roy told the club president he had played his last game for the team.
Q 25Through the 2024-25 season, the Canadiens' 1993 Stanley Cup was the last won by what?
A Canadian team
It also kept alive a streak of at least one Cup in every decade from the 1910s to the 1990s, which ended in the 2000s.
Q 26The Canadiens played their final game at the Montreal Forum on March 11, 1996, beating which team 4-1?
Dallas Stars
Every living captain passed a torch until it reached Pierre Turgeon, who carried it into the new building.
Q 27The Forum was originally built in 1924 for which team?
Montreal Maroons
The Canadiens moved in for 1926-27 and won 22 of their Cups while calling it home.
Q 28The Canadiens' arena that opened in 1996 was originally known by what name?
Molson Centre
Renamed the Bell Centre in 2002, it is the largest indoor arena in Canada and seats 20,962 for the Habs.
Q 29Which American businessman bought control of the Canadiens from Molson in 2001 for $275 million?
George Gillett Jr.
He sold the club back to a Molson-led consortium in 2009 for $575 million.
Q 30Which mascot, inherited from the Expos, became the Canadiens' first costumed one in 2004-05?
Youppi!
He was the first mascot to switch leagues, and the first ever ejected from a game, back in his baseball days.