The Montreal Canadiens were awarded the 2008-09 season All-Star Game by the NHL.The contest will be played for the Canadienss 100th anniversary.The last time the Canadiens hosted this event it was in 1993 when the Canadiens won there 24th Stanley Cup."We're very, very happy to have been chosen as hosts of the all-star game," said Canadiens president Pierre Boivin. "It's going to be our centennial year and we said from the beginning that we want to do everything so that Montreal really becomes hockey-centric and that it'd be a year of celebration of not only the franchise but or our national sport and our great game and all of its heroes."
The Canadiens will try to repeat Hockey History as they will try to win a Stanley Cup on yet another year they host the NHL All-Star game.
Written By:Andrew Di pardo
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