Excerpt from Slamsports.com (Chris Stevenson):

The Habs started the home portion of their 100th season last night against the Boston Bruins with another sweet embrace of their glittering past.

The club’s salon des anciens would have made a rapper blush with all the bling on display before the game as former greats like Henri Richard (a record 11 Stanley Cups), Yvan Cournoyer, Guy Lafleur, Guy Lapointe, Larry Robinson, Murray Wilson, current GM Bob Gainey and 90-year-old Elmer Lach and 88-year-old Emile “Butch” Bouchard — the two oldest surviving Canadiens — gathered to mark the introduction of the club’s Ring of Honour and kick off the year-long celebration.

There are few teams that do ceremony quite like the Habs, but then again, few have as much with which to work.