This evening, the Winnipeg Jets are in La Belle Province to take on the Montreal Canadiens at Centre Bell. The Jets have won three in a row, including a 2-1 squeaker of a win against the Arizona Coyotes in their last game. The team is now 8-2 in their last ten games and 29-14-1 on the season. The Canadiens are coming off of a 2-1 victory over the New York Rangers and are 3-7 in their last ten games and 18-23-3 on the season. Will the “Former Forum” fans continue to feud with Mark Scheifele and his family with fisticuffs? Will John Lu and Dan Robertson become homesick and eat their weight in Montreal-style bagels and smoked meat? Will @snowkiddin see the light and pick Winnipeg for once in the Prediction Contest? These and many other questions may be answered in this latest GDT. Stay tuned...
Many of us know that Montreal was once home to the 1976 Summer Olympics and Major League Baseball's Expos, but here are a few facts that you may not know in the latest instalment of...
Montréal is the largest of over 200 islands that make up the Hochelaga Archipelago. Many of the islands are uninhabited (not counting adorable wildlife) and some even make up a “national” park, Parc national des Îles-de-Boucherville, which, despite its official name, is a provincial park....
Did you know that John Lennon’s song Give Peace a Chance was written in Montreal during his ‘bed-in’ at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel on June 1st 1969? This hotel has welcomed many famous guests including Queen Elizabeth II, Fidel Castro, Charles de Gaulle, Princess Grace of Monaco, Indira Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama and John Travolta. However, the hotel gained its international recognition when John Lennon, who had been refused entry in the USA, conducted his bed-in in Room 1742 and wrote Give Peace a Chance there. This song would later become an anthem of the American anti-war movement...
Montreal is build around Mont Royal, from where the city received its name. Mont Royal Park, located on the mountain, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the same person who designed New York City's Central Park. No building in Montreal can be taller than the famous Cross found on Mont Royal...
The Montreal Tower (formerly Olympic Tower) is the world’s tallest inclined structure, at 175 m (574 ft). It leans at an angle of 45° (compare that to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which leans at 4°, and is one-third the height)...
Barbie Expo Montreal is the world’s largest permanent exposition of Barbie dolls, with over 1000 unique Barbies on display...
Youppi! was the first mascot to be thrown out of a Major League Baseball game: during the 1989 Expos season, on August 23 while atop the visitors' dugout in the 11th inning, Youppi! took a running leap, landing hard and noisily on its roof, and then sneaked into a front row seat. Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda complained to the umpires and Youppi! was ejected by Bob Davidson, though he later returned, confined to the home team's dugout roof, as Montreal eventually lost 1–0 in 22 innings...
It's quite fitting that in a city like Montreal, where snow drops 'til April, would an invention like the snowblower first be used. And that's exactly the case, as folks in Outremont were the first to utilize Arthur Sicard's invention in the winter of 1927...
A “mulligan” in golf lingo is when a player gets a second chance to hit the ball, and it was coined in honour of David Mulligan during the 1920s. After a long drive across the Victoria bridge towards the Montreal Country Club golf course, Mulligan's friends gave him a second chance to hit his tee off when his initial drive was far worse than his usual. The term is still used today...
Let's hope the Jets "ace" this game against the Habs, a little "birdie" told me so... Go Jets Go!
Thanks to: 10 Facts About Montreal, 115 Facts Magnifiques about Montreal (2023 Data!) - Fun World Facts, 10 Facts About Montreal | GEOS Montreal, and 40 Montreal Mind Blowing Facts You Never Knew About
Many of us know that Montreal was once home to the 1976 Summer Olympics and Major League Baseball's Expos, but here are a few facts that you may not know in the latest instalment of...
Montréal is the largest of over 200 islands that make up the Hochelaga Archipelago. Many of the islands are uninhabited (not counting adorable wildlife) and some even make up a “national” park, Parc national des Îles-de-Boucherville, which, despite its official name, is a provincial park....
Did you know that John Lennon’s song Give Peace a Chance was written in Montreal during his ‘bed-in’ at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel on June 1st 1969? This hotel has welcomed many famous guests including Queen Elizabeth II, Fidel Castro, Charles de Gaulle, Princess Grace of Monaco, Indira Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama and John Travolta. However, the hotel gained its international recognition when John Lennon, who had been refused entry in the USA, conducted his bed-in in Room 1742 and wrote Give Peace a Chance there. This song would later become an anthem of the American anti-war movement...
Montreal is build around Mont Royal, from where the city received its name. Mont Royal Park, located on the mountain, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the same person who designed New York City's Central Park. No building in Montreal can be taller than the famous Cross found on Mont Royal...
The Montreal Tower (formerly Olympic Tower) is the world’s tallest inclined structure, at 175 m (574 ft). It leans at an angle of 45° (compare that to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which leans at 4°, and is one-third the height)...
Barbie Expo Montreal is the world’s largest permanent exposition of Barbie dolls, with over 1000 unique Barbies on display...
Youppi! was the first mascot to be thrown out of a Major League Baseball game: during the 1989 Expos season, on August 23 while atop the visitors' dugout in the 11th inning, Youppi! took a running leap, landing hard and noisily on its roof, and then sneaked into a front row seat. Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda complained to the umpires and Youppi! was ejected by Bob Davidson, though he later returned, confined to the home team's dugout roof, as Montreal eventually lost 1–0 in 22 innings...
It's quite fitting that in a city like Montreal, where snow drops 'til April, would an invention like the snowblower first be used. And that's exactly the case, as folks in Outremont were the first to utilize Arthur Sicard's invention in the winter of 1927...
A “mulligan” in golf lingo is when a player gets a second chance to hit the ball, and it was coined in honour of David Mulligan during the 1920s. After a long drive across the Victoria bridge towards the Montreal Country Club golf course, Mulligan's friends gave him a second chance to hit his tee off when his initial drive was far worse than his usual. The term is still used today...
Let's hope the Jets "ace" this game against the Habs, a little "birdie" told me so... Go Jets Go!
Thanks to: 10 Facts About Montreal, 115 Facts Magnifiques about Montreal (2023 Data!) - Fun World Facts, 10 Facts About Montreal | GEOS Montreal, and 40 Montreal Mind Blowing Facts You Never Knew About
Ok Jets lets keep'er going and give Montreal something to cry about.
