The Montreal Canadiens had a surprisingly great season in 2007-08. They were not expected to be a dominant team after missing the playoffs in 2007, but the Habs would finish first overall in the Eastern Conference standings and head into the 2008 postseason as the number one seed in the east.
They were led by a great season from Alex Kovalev, as well as Saku Koivu, Tomas Plekanec, Andrei Kostitsyn and Chris Higgins contributing offensively. Andrei Markov and Mark Streit brought plenty of scoring from the blue line and Roman Hamrlik, Josh Gorges and Mike Komisarek were shutting things down defensively.