2003–04 Montreal Canadiens season
| 2003–04 Montreal Canadiens | |
|---|---|
| Division | 4th Northeast |
| Conference | 7th Eastern |
| 2003–04 record | 41–30–7 |
| Home record | 23–13–4–1 |
| Road record | 18–17–3–3 |
| Goals for | 208 |
| Goals against | 192 |
| Team information | |
| General Manager | Bob Gainey |
| Coach | Claude Julien |
| Captain | Saku Koivu |
| Arena | Bell Centre |
| Team leaders | |
| Goals | Richard Zednik (26) |
| Assists | Mike Ribeiro (45) |
| Points | Mike Ribeiro (65) |
| Penalties in minutes | Darren Langdon (135) |
| Plus/minus | Patrice Brisebois (+17) |
| Wins | Jose Theodore (33) |
| Goals against average | Jose Theodore Mathieu Garon (2.27) |
The 2003–04 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's 95th season of play, 87th in the National Hockey League. The Canadiens returned to the playoffs this season and made it to the Eastern Conference Semi-finals after winning the Eastern Conference Quarter-finals against the Boston Bruins, 4–3, before being eliminated by the eventual Stanley Cup champions, the Tampa Bay Lightning, 4–0.
The Heritage Classic was an outdoor ice hockey game played on November 22, 2003, in Edmonton, Alberta, between the Edmonton Oilers and the Montreal Canadiens. It was the second NHL outdoor game and the first regular season outdoor game in the history of the NHL, and was modeled after the success of the "cold war" game between the University of Michigan and Michigan State University in 2001.
The first NHL game to be played outdoors was in 1991 when the Los Angeles Kings played the New York Rangers in an exhibition game outside Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The event took place in Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium in front of a crowd of 57,167, the largest number of people to ever watch a live NHL game, despite temperatures of close to −18 °C, −30 °C (−22 °F) with wind chill. It was held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Edmonton Oilers joining the NHL in 1979.
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