The Le National or Montreal Nationals was an amateur, and later professional, men's senior-level ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team in a few of the top leagues prior to the formation of the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

. They were noteworthy as one of the first ice hockey teams composed of francophone

Francophone

The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places. Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person....

 players, as the amateur ice hockey associations prior to then were dominated by anglophones

English Canadian

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.

Leagues

The Nationals played in:

• Federal Amateur Hockey League
  Federal Amateur Hockey League
  The Federal Amateur Hockey League was a Canadian men's senior-level ice hockey league that played six seasons from 1904 to 1909. The league was formed initially to provide a league for teams not accepted by the rival Canadian Amateur Hockey League . One team, the Montreal Le National, was the first...
  
   in 1903–04
• Canadian Amateur Hockey League
  Canadian Amateur Hockey League
  The Canadian Amateur Hockey League was an early men's amateur hockey league founded in 1898, replacing the organization that was formerly the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada before the 1898–99 season. The league existed for seven seasons, folding in 1905 and was itself replaced by the Eastern...
  
   in 1905
• Canadian Hockey Association in 1909–10
• Interprovincial Amateur Hockey Union in 1911–12
• Montreal City Hockey League (1911–12, 1914–15 - 1922–23)
• Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League
  Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League
  The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League was a major amateur senior ice hockey league in Canada that existed from 1923.-History:The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League was founded in 1923 from teams in Ontario and Quebec. It was an attempt to set up a major league in eastern Canada, which had...
  
  ( 1923–24 - ?)