Roughly 35 years ago—at the height of their last dynastic period in the National Hockey League—the Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup so often that the mayor of the city, the charming Jean Drapeau, announced in a press release in the 1970s that the victory parade following yet another title would take place "along the usual route" in downtown Montreal, along the fabled Rue Sainte-Catherine.
This past week, after a surprising run which unseated from the playoffs the two best players in the sport—Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh) and Alex Ovechkin (Washington)—the Canadiens were themselves trounced out of the playoffs by the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference Final. The defeat marked the 17th year in a row without a Cup for Montreal, the longest futility streak in the 100 years of the franchise. Therefore, an entire generation of Montrealers—and millions of other "Habs" fans around the world—have grown up without seeing the parade on the "usual route" or any other.
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