from Arpon Basu of NHL.com,
The Montreal Canadiens have sold out Bell Centre for 422 consecutive games.
All 383 regular-season games and 39 games in the Stanley Cup Playoffs dating to Jan. 8, 2004 were officially listed as a sellout, a streak that is one month short of a decade in length.
The streak was snapped Tuesday.
The official attendance for the Canadiens' 3-1 win against the Vancouver Canucks was listed as 21,286, one short of capacity, to account for the empty aisle seat in Row EE in Section 102, three rows behind the Montreal bench.
The seat had been occupied for years by the late Canadiens legend Jean Beliveau, and though he wasn't there to fill it Tuesday, the seat was in many ways the star of a night-long tribute to the Hall of Fame center and pre-eminent hockey ambassador who touched so many during his career and after.
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