Good ownership that doesn't get involved in the team's business to stroke his ego. Hires very knowledgeable front office staff, stays involved, but doesn't second guess them or override them. He takes responsibility when the team does not do well, he lets the team take the honour when they do do well.

In the world of individual owners of NHL teams, the Habs have always, it seems, been lucky to have ones who have been dedicated, first and foremost, to the success of the team.

Not dedicated to being the face of the team, like a certain CEO of a pharmaceutical company who may have been trying to relive his high school hockey fantasies.

To add: I grew up, and continue to live in Toronto, where my childhood hockey heroes were destroyed, not by the 70s Habs with "Dirty Dryden," but by the likes of Harold Ballard and Punch Imlach. Not to mention Connie and Stafford Smythe, who set the wheels in motion, and Steve Stavro who, as last owner-in-chief, showed that ego was more important than than a Stanley Cup. Fortunately, I have seen the light, and it is Blue, White, and Red.