Confirmed with Link: Jacques Lemaire to be inducted into Devils Ring of Honor on Jan. 22

[Darkauron]

Good

 

[Andre Palot]

They'd better hurry up for Lou then.

Larry, Lou and Pat all should be members of the ring of honor.

 

[Oneiro]

My favorite Jacques quote, kind of under the radar:

"Yesterday's gone. There's only tonight. So you worry about tonight."

TG had a recording of it, which I have saved somewhere. It's f***ing epic as hell because you have the AC/DC bell intro in the background.

 

[Dylan9z9]

Larry, Lou and Pat all should be members of the ring of honor.

No Robbie Ftorek?

My favorite Jacques quote, kind of under the radar:

"Yesterday's gone. There's only tonight. So you worry about tonight."

TG had a recording of it, which I have saved somewhere. It's f***ing epic as hell because you have the AC/DC bell intro in the background.

Isn't that in a Bob Seger song?

 

[Whaddagoal]

Love it, but hope they do better than Brylin night.

 

[Bleedred]

Love it, but hope they do better than Brylin night.

Guess was in net that night against us.....

We actually scored two goals on him though (I think?) in junk time. I think we came close to getting shutout by him that night, but scored 2 junk time goals in the last 5 or 8 minutes when the game was already well out of reach.

 

[Whaddagoal]

Guess was in net that night against us.....

We actually scored two goals on him though (I think?) in junk time. I think we came close to getting shutout by him that night, but scored 2 junk time goals in the last 5 or 8 minutes when the game was already well out of reach.

Oh shit I just remembered....once I remembered the opponent, took a moment.

Haha. Wedgewood. Ok I knew the devils last night looked like in a familiar situation. Getting stoned by wedge.

 

[Better Call Sal]

My favorite quote of his is in that Best of video on page 1.

“Worrying is a part of life. We wake up, we worry. We go to bed, we worry. And when we dream, we dream about being worried.”

Also, the one line he was asked if he considered playing 3 goons on a line together and he responds back, “who’s going to play center? And how big’s the puck?”

 

[Bleedred]

Back in 1996 or 1997, could have been 1995 even (after the cup year) Lemaire blamed the team's poor play on indulging in too much food. I wish I could find that quote.

One of my favorites was another game way back then where in the press conference he passionately describes how players were badly out of breath leaving the ice. And he couldn't believe how tired everyone was. I laughed so hard watching that live.

And no, that wasn't when he said ''Conditioning is not where it needs to be'' in his first game back after MacLean got fired. It was back in his first go around here in the 90s when both of those things happened.

 

[njdevils1982]

And it's important to do these things while you can. He's 79, and it sucks to celebrate a guy after he's gone.

As a side note, the NHL desperately needs to fix the french canadian problem. Not enough of them in the league anymore! Per capita they have always been far more fun and interesting than anglos, and we need to do better!

Doing these things with age in mind going forward makes the most sense to me. I'd rather see Jacques and Lou get to experience their night before they are no longer around. Lou should be going in next year whether he's still working or not.

the morons at the hhof 'didnt get the memo' and did burns and his family wrong.

but back on topic....well deserved for lemaire....glad he's in

 

[Whaddagoal]

Would love to see a drop in from this guy...



Had the big OT goal on Lemaire's 600th win. Remember it like yesterday.

Probably one of most impactful coaches for him.

 

[glenwo2]

Would love to see a drop in from this guy...



Had the big OT goal on Lemaire's 600th win. Remember it like yesterday.

Probably one of most impactful coaches for him.

I also miss Doc.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

Would love to see a drop in from this guy...



Had the big OT goal on Lemaire's 600th win. Remember it like yesterday.

Probably one of most impactful coaches for him.

God I almost forgot we had the joker behind the bench for a while.

Doc says 2 words the entire 1:45 clip after the 15 second mark lol. Let Chico have his spotlight... Doc's just the best.

 

[Comparison Ford]

This press conference remains legendary. And truly highlights what a brilliant mind he was to assess what was wrong with that 2010-2011 team after just one night.

Certainly not his best moment as a coach with this team, but one that will always stick out to me because I was much younger when we won in 1995.

best press conference i’ve ever seen

 

[Saint Beaurivage]

Jaques LeMaire and Claude Lemieux are the ones that turned me into a lifeline fan. You always felt like your team had a good chance to win it all.

 

[NjdevilfanJim]

What a brilliant hockey mind and all class!

 

[Louskoolaid89]

It was at the beginning of my junior year in high school and I heard the Devils hired Jacques. I was like holy shit the coach that just won the cup with Montreal is now gonna be our head coach! Hahaha Jacques Demeres and Jacques Lemaire do sound somewhat similar I guess. I'd say it worked out pretty good and it was worth being excited about!

 

[My3Sons]

It was at the beginning of my junior year in high school and I heard the Devils hired Jacques. I was like holy shit the coach that just won the cup with Montreal is now gonna be our head coach! Hahaha Jacques Demeres and Jacques Lemaire do sound somewhat similar I guess. I'd say it worked out pretty good and it was worth being excited about!

You were in high school that long ago? Wow you are ancient. Are you typing this out with a pencil because your fingers are too arthritic to bend?

 

[Bleedred]

Evidently, this is year 2 of 5 consecutive years that they plan on doing this. The "committee" in charge of it are the 5 retired players and ring of honor members.

I wouldn't be shocked to see the remaining three be Larry, Burns and eventually a big grand ceremony for Lou.

I had no idea that they planned to do this for 5 years.

Maybe it's the two remaining cup winning head coaches and Lou, but they probably have no order planned yet and possibly the inductees are not at all set in stone.

I still wonder if Lou is in the first year he's no longer Islanders GM or POHOPS.

 

[Bleedred]

It was at the beginning of my junior year in high school and I heard the Devils hired Jacques. I was like holy shit the coach that just won the cup with Montreal is now gonna be our head coach! Hahaha Jacques Demeres and Jacques Lemaire do sound somewhat similar I guess. I'd say it worked out pretty good and it was worth being excited about!

The word at the time was that the next Devils head coach was expected to be Robbie Ftorek, but that may have been nothing but speculation by whatever writer/publication was putting that out, as Ftorek was already the head coach for our AHL affiliate in Utica and had been an assistant for the NHL Devils for a couple of years before that.

I'm not sure how Jacques Lemaire came about. I was familiar with him from being a player, even though he retired when I was just a toddler and before I knew what hockey was. But I was familiar with his place in history on the Habs dynasty of the 70s. And it was his first coaching stint of any kind since three years with the Canadiens as an assistant and then head coach, which was 8 years earlier.

For some reason and it seems to be a mystery, Jacques Lemaire's number was not retired by the Canadiens. Not sure if something happened with the relationship between Lemaire and the organization over the years. Maybe it was his brief head coaching tenure there, which was now 40 years ago.

 

[Better Call Sal]

Lou definitely should get a statue somewhere in Championship Plaza (only fitting).

 

[Bleedred]

One storyline that the media totally missed out on and completely ignored in 1995 was the student vs former longtime head coach.

They may have brought it up in passing, but that was a huge missed opportunity for a storyline that really went under the radar.

Jacques Lemaire was a player under Scotty Bowman for years and won quite a few cups with him as head coach, and now he's squaring off against him as a head coach in the Stanley Cup Finals.

The only thing I can think of is Lemaire did get old looking pretty quick, and he actually looked older than Scotty Bowman in 1995, who was actually 12 years older than him. Most people who didn't follow hockey in the 70s probably wouldn't have believed Lemaire was actually 12 years younger than Scotty Bowman. Lemaire looked kind of old in the 70s and he was only 33 when he played his last game, despite looking old enough to be a player coach towards the end of his career. He stopped aging probably in his 60s, as he didn't look hardly any older when he came back the 2nd and 3rd time than he did in his first stint here.

 

[57special]

You were in high school that long ago? Wow you are ancient. Are you typing this out with a pencil because your fingers are too arthritic to bend?

NVM that, my Mosquito Hockey coach lived a couple of doors down from Lemaire when he was a young hotshot Center for the Habs with an absolute cannon of a slapshot. We'd go over to the coach'es place, and look over at his place waiting for him to gun his GTO as he left his driveway, hoping that he would notice us.

 

[My3Sons]

NVM that, my Mosquito Hockey coach lived a couple of doors down from Lemaire when he was a young hotshot Center for the Habs with an absolute cannon of a slapshot. We'd go over to the coach'es place, and look over at his place waiting for him to gun his GTO as he left his driveway, hoping that he would notice us.

So you died of old age in 1979 and nobody told you about it gramps? Old people like you make me sick. Pete Townsend was right. He hoped he’d die before he got old and look at him now! He kept his word.