MONTREAL, QC — This is the first article of a new feature on All Habs that we like to call “Your Story.”
Last season we gathered opinions from fans of the Montreal Canadiens who attended Habs Tweetups. We will share selected answers to a variety of questions with you to get the ideas flowing.
The folks from the Habs Tweetups had limited time and space for their responses. We invite you to fill our comment box with a few paragraphs on the chosen topic. Consider it an outline of what could be a more lengthy submission.
A panel will select the best comments written in both English and French. The winners will be given an opportunity to write a longer article that will be published at All Habs.
Share your passion about the Montreal Canadiens and All Habs’ readers may be treated to Your Story.
The first question is an obvious one.
How did you become a fan of the Montreal Canadiens?
Tell us. What’s Your Story?
Here’s a sample of the responses from the Habs Tweetups grouped by categories.
A. Birthplace
HLS: Born in Montreal — Mandatory
SBT: You automatically become one when you are born in Montreal.
KYR: By law.
B. Birthright
CAK: I was born into a Habs family.
IFC: I was born a Habs fan because my Dad is a fan.
MTJ: By being conceived by my Habs-loving parents.
C. Influence of family or friends
MTD: Watched them with friends as a kid.
MCB: I grew up with Habs fans. Now I’m the biggest fan in the house.
TAM: Watching the games with my grandfather and my best friend when I was a little girl.
BNY: I’m a fan since I was young. My mom is a big fan so I became a fan around the age of five and have followed them since.
MFV: Watching games with my father when I was young. Every game I hear him yell at the puck.
MDB: It was either become a fan or be a “hockey widow.”
D. Specific player or event
MGA: I started watching when Saku Koivu was playing.
HDH: By watching Patrick Roy on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada when I was eight. The rest is history.
THS: My first exposure to hockey was watching the 1993 Stanley Cup because my cousin made me. When I moved to Montreal full time in 2001-02 for school, the first Habs game I went to was Saku’s comeback from cancer — that was it.
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Even though I was born in Southern Connecticut, Montréal is the birthplace of my mother, and is still home to a majority of my family. Oddly, my family is made up of a mix of Detroit and Boston fans. I can credit my great-grandmother, who bought me my first "jersey" when I was about 2, for introducing me to le bleu, blanc at rouge. But it was really growing up in the late days of Guy LaFleur, and then seeing a rookie sensation named Patrick Roy that sealed the deal. The rest is my small piece of 100 years of history.
I was born and raised in New Jersey and never had much of a hockey interest in my very early years. When I was 6, I began playing roller hockey and getting into the game, and to help my dad got tickets to a Devils game. He took me, and they were playing the Canadiens. The Habs fans were out in full force as usual, and they were so much louder and more active than the Devils fans. Even being so little, I LOVED it and loved the experience of sitting right with so many Habs fans. Ever since then, I've bled bleu, blanc, et rouge.
I grew up in a small town where everyone was either a Leafs or Canadiens fan. Unfortunately, my family decked me out in blue and white from birth. My favorite Leafs player was Dick Duff, one of the grittiest, clutch players the game has ever seen. Fortunately for me, Duff was traded by the Leafs to the Rangers, who after a few months, sent him to Montreal. At the age of 4, I announced to my family that I would no longer be wearing the blue and white pyjamas. From that day, I was fan of the Montreal Canadiens.
From what i remember i always had a Habs fan but it was really when my dad bought my a Carbonneau jersey. Since then i cheer for them. but my first real habs star was Mark Recchi then i switch to goalies Roy,Thibeault,Hackett,Moog,Théo,Price .
Born and bred a Habs fan. Have since lived in Edmonton (late 80's) and now in the Southern Ontario market (land of those who shall not be named lol) Enjoyed many parades in downtown Mtl (the regular route)
I enjoy a good game – it kind of got boring winning all the time but this now would be a great time to win something.
I was not born a Habs fan, nor was I bred to be one. I come from a hockey family, but I am the first one to have "a team". I should technically love my home team, the one that I can actually see live, watch in prime time, the one that has merchandise everywhere…
Growing up I never got a chance to really play, (the late eighties: girls hockey had barely started) and it wasn't until my brother started organized hockey that I got my chance. My father decided quickly that being a goalie was expensive and so the brother was going to be a "power forward". Since shooting at an empty goal wasn't going to give his budding sharpshooter enough of a challenge, I was called into service. What followed was affectionately referred to as "target practice" and I would get between the pipes for years (I actually think I was a better goalie than he ever was forward!).
You all know where I am going with this…got my first jersey when I was eight and proudly wore the #33 until it fell apart and it's been Go Habs Go ever since…
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