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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Short for Les Habitants.
(Which is French for "hockey team," or something like that.)
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I believe that way back when, the team owner said that all the players were les habitants, which is a term that refers to the first settlers of Quebec (Habitant Pea Soup, anyone?) and means a farmer. He was joking but he said that all the players were local farmers. The name stuck.
