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“As a coach, I have the responsibility to make everyone accountable. That’s the bottom line. I’ve told the players: ‘If you work hard, you play. If not, you don’t.’ It’s real simple. “I had really good coaches when I played. Jacques Demers (for whom...
Eddy told me, ‘I want to work for you, I’ll do my best, but I’ll never tell you that,’ ... I knew right then that he worked for the coach, but more importantly he worked for the players. And that was OK with me.
Mario Roberge, Ed Ronan, Brian Bellows, Vincent Damphousse and Jesse Bélanger, who played in 19 regular-season and nine playoff games, but not in the final. However, Bélanger’s name is on the Cup, even though he didn’t qualify. Ronald Corey was the...
The pressures went far beyond day-to-day annoyances. The best evidence I ever saw of it was in Jacques Demers's face. In 1995, the Canadiens missed the playoffs for the first time in a quarter century, their chances at sneaking into the post-season...
(Trivia: four men have coached the Blues and Habs, nine have played goal for both. Coaches, chronologically: Scotty Bowman, Jacques Demers, Jacques Martin and Bob Berry. Goalies, alphabetically: Jaroslav Halak, Pat Jablonski, Michel Larocque, Phil...
Caron to retool the team on a very tight budget. He directed him to trade off his high-priced stars for whatever he could get. Ornest expected him to build a viable team on a shoestring budget. And build it he did, assembling a group that nearly won it...
After all, 16 years earlier he and Gord Donnelly had been traded by the St. Louis Blues to the Quebec Nordiques for the rights to coach Jacques Demers. Having been traded for a coach, perhaps it made sense Julien would in turn trade his holidays for a...
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