The Montreal Canadiens used to be called the Flying Frenchmen when they set a National Hockey League record by winning 20 Stanley Cup championships. But the Canadiens of the 1980s have a new nickname: The French Foreign Legion. Six players on the team were born in the USA. Defenseman Chris ...
No team or unit name ever reflected the city it played in like "The Steel Curtain". The name represented hard-driving players -- such as Dwight White, Ernie Holmes, Joe Greene, L.C. Greenwood, Lambert, Ham, Mike Wagner and Mel Blount among others - and spoke volumes for the city of ...