Jacques Lemaire

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Position	Forward
Height Weight	5 ft 11 in (1.8 m) 180 lb (82 kg)
Pro Clubs	Montreal Canadiens
Nationality	Image:Flag of Canada.svg Canada
Born	September 7, 1945, Lasalle, PQ, CAN
Pro Career	1967 – 1979

</div></div>Jacques Gerard Lemaire (born September 7, 1945 in Lasalle, Quebec, Canada) is a former ice hockey centre and current head coach in the National Hockey League.

1 Career
- 1.1 Playing Career
- 1.2 Coaching Career
2 See also
3 External Links
4 References

[edit] Career

[edit] Playing Career

Playing his entire NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens, Lemaire earned the Stanley Cup a remarkable eight times. One of only five players to have scored two Stanley Cup winning goals he was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984. Following his retirement in 1979, Lemaire travelled to Switzerland to begin a career in coaching. Lemaire, a model of consistency, scored at least 20 goals in each of his 12 seasons. In 853 NHL games he recorded 366 goals and 469 assists for 835 points.

[edit] Coaching Career

Lemaire was head coach of the Canadiens from 1983-1985 and the New Jersey Devils from 1993 to 1998, winning the Stanley Cup in 1995 and the Jack Adams Award in 1994 and 2003. Lemaire has been head coach of the Minnesota Wild since June 19, 2000, the first ever (and only) head coach of the organization.

Montreal Canadiens Head Coaches
Laviolette • Lecours • Dorval • Gardner • Lalonde • Dandurand • Hart • Mantha • Dugal • Siebert • Lépine • Irvin • Blake • Ruel • MacNeil • Bowman • Geoffrion • Berry • Lemaire • Perron • Burns • Demers • Tremblay • Vigneault • Therrien • Julien • Gainey • Carbonneau

New Jersey Devils Head Coaches
MacMillan • McVie • Carpenter • Schoenfeld • Cunniff • Brooks • Lemaire • Ftorek • Robinson • Constantine • Burns • Lamoriello • Julien

Minnesota Wild Head Coaches
Lemaire

Current National Hockey League head coaches
Babcock • Carbonneau • Carlyle • Crawford • Gretzky • Hanlon • Hartley • Hitchcock • Julien • Kitchen • Laviolette • Lemaire • Lewis • MacTavish • Martin • Maurice • Murray • Nolan • Playfair • Quenneville • Renney • Ruff • Savard • Stevens • Therrien • Tippett • Tortorella • Trotz • Vigneault • Wilson

Preceded by: Bob Berry	Head Coach of the Montreal Canadiens 1984–1985	Succeeded by: Jean Perron
Preceded by: Herb Brooks	Head Coach of the New Jersey Devils 1993–1998	Succeeded by: Robbie Ftorek
Preceded by: first coach	Head Coach of the Minnesota Wild 2000-Present	Succeeded by: none