A one-sport town?

In a city where the Canadiens are king, and memories of the Expos still sting, does another pro sports team stand a chance in Montreal?
There’s no two ways about it: Montreal is a rootin’ tootin’ hockey town. Here, the Canadiens aren’t so much a franchise as an institutional identity, gods in an arena that might as well be Olympus.

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