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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 2654316" data-attributes="member: 2012">Canadiens to retire three more jerseysTSN.ca Staff10/14/2005 9:45:19 AMThe Montreal Canadiens on Saturday will unveil the names of the three players who will see their sweater retired during the 2005-06 season.The unveiling is part of the activities leading to the Club's Centennial in 2009. Over the next four seasons the team will retire a series of numbers to mark the 100-year anniversary.The select group of players whose numbers have already been raised to the Bell Centre rafters include Howie Morenz (No. 7 – retired Nov. 2, 1937), Maurice Richard (No. 9 – retired Oct. 6, 1960), Jean Beliveau (No. 4 – retired Oct. 9, 1971), Henri Richard (No. 16 – retired Dec. 10, 1975), Guy Lafleur (No. 10 – retired Feb. 16, 1985), Doug Harvey (No. 2 – retired Oct. 26, 1985), and Jacques Plante (No. 1 – retired Oct. 7, 1995).With the possible exception of the New York Yankees, no North American sports team has had as storied and as successful a history as the Canadiens, the oldest team in professional hockey. The Canadiens have won 24 Stanley Cups and have the most individuals in the Hockey Hall of Fame, with forty-one members inducted since the Hall was built in 1961.</blockquote>