Montreal Canadiens

The Montreal Canadiens – there is only one word to describe this team, and that word is “legendary.”  With 24 Stanley Cup Championships to call their own, only the New York Yankees have more championships in the “big four” American sports leagues.  So somebody please explain to me why fans of a team with such a rich championship history were excited enough to riot and torch police cars after their team made it to the second round of the NHL playoffs.  Granted, the win was over bitter rivals the Boston Bruins in a 7 game series, but that’s no reason to get excited, your team still has three more teams to beat to get their names engraved on Lord Stanley’s Cup.

From the Globe and Mail article:

Street celebrations following the seventh-game victory by the Montreal Canadiens over the Boston Bruins turned violent Monday night after vandals torched and smashed more than a dozen police vehicles and damaged local businesses. Police spokesman Constable Laurent Gingras said at least 13 people were detained, including three minors — one 14-year-old and two 17-year-olds.

Making this whole story even more idiotic is the fact that after the celebratory riots in the streets of Montreal, Les Habitants only managed to win one game in their best of seven series loss to the Philadelphia Flyers, who are going on to play the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference Finals.