Jacques Demers
Jacques Demers (born August 25, 1944 in Montréal , Québec ) is a former ice hockey coach who has worked for the Detroit Red Wings and the Montréal Canadiens , among others . He was a senator from 2009 to 2019 .
Career
Jacques Demers took his first job as a trainer in 1975 with the Indianapolis Racers in the WHA . After two years he left the team and moved within the league to the Cincinnati Stingers , where he only stayed a year.
1978/79 the WHA went into their final season and Demers received the coaching post with the Québec Nordiques . The team played a good season, but they only reached the second round in the playoffs . The Nordiques were accepted into the NHL in the summer of 1979 and Demers went with this step, but the team could not assert itself in his first year in the NHL. Then Demers gave the job as head coach and coached for a year's break the AHL - farm team of the Nordiques, the Fredericton Express . In the first year, the team could only win every fourth game, in the second year, however, the team flourished and won 45 of their 80 games. Demers received the Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award for best coach in the league.
He was then signed by the St. Louis Blues in the summer of 1983 . 1985/86 he was able to lead the team to the conference finals, where they were subject to the Toronto Maple Leafs in a competitive series . After this first success, the Detroit Red Wings signed him.
At that time, the Red Wings were among the worst teams in the league, although they could pull themselves up a bit from the early to mid-eighties, but in the 1985/86 season they had played the worst season in their history with only 17 wins. Demers got the team out of the basement again and made it to the conference finals with the Red Wings in the 1986/87 season , which the team was able to repeat in 1987/88 . In both years he was honored with the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. It was the first and so far only time that a coach has won the trophy twice in a row.
But the success did not last any longer. The following season, the Red Wings were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, the following year they again missed qualifying and Demers had to vacate his chair in Detroit in the summer of 1990.
In 1992 he returned to the NHL as the coach of his home team, the Montréal Canadiens . The 1992/93 season went without major problems and the team qualified for the playoffs. There the Canadiens turned up and moved into the final of the Stanley Cup with only three defeats . There they met the Los Angeles Kings around superstar Wayne Gretzky . Still, the Kings had no chance and Montréal won the 24th Stanley Cup in the club's history under the leadership of Jacques Demers.
The 1993/94 season was relatively calm and again the Canadiens made it into the playoffs. This time, the defending champion ended in the first round. 1994/95 they missed the playoffs and when the Canadiens lost the first five games at the beginning of the 1995/96 season , Jacques Demers had to leave the team.
During the 1997/98 season Demers got the job as head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning , which had only joined the NHL in 1992 and had not yet finally established itself. Even under Demers, the team could not celebrate any success and twice missed the playoffs before he ended his career as a coach in the summer of 1999. In the 1998/99 season he was also the team's general manager.
In 2005 Demers published his biography which was written by Mario Leclerc . Jacques Demers tells in her that he has suffered from illiteracy his whole life , which he attributed to his alcoholic father and the poor circumstances in which he grew up. Except for a few words that he could write on autograph cards, he can hardly read or write to this day.
Demers worked as a commentator for the French-speaking Canadian sports television RDS . On August 27, 2009, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named him a senator . In parliament he represented the province of Québec and initially belonged to the parliamentary group of the Conservative Party , from which he left in 2015. In 2017 he joined the Independent Senators Group . On August 25, 2019, Demers left the Senate when he reached the age limit of 75.
Achievements and Awards
- Stanley Cup 1993
- Jack Adams Award 1987 and 1988
- Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award 1983
Web links
- Jacques Demers at hockeydb.com (English)
- Jacques Demers - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)
1974 Shero | 1975 Pulford | 1976 Cherry | 1977 Bowman | 1978 Kromm | 1979 Arbor | 1980 Quinn | 1981 Berenson | 1982 watt | 1983 Tessier | 1984 Murray | 1985 Keenan | 1986 Sather | 1987 Demers | 1988 Demers | 1989 Burns | 1990 Murdoch | 1991 Sutter | 1992 Quinn | 1993 Burns | 1994 Lemaire | 1995 Crawford | 1996 Bowman | 1997 Nolan | 1998 Burns | 1999 Martin | 2000 Quenneville | 2001 Barber | 2002 Francis | 2003 Lemaire | 2004 Tortorella | 2005 - | 2006 Ruff | 2007 Vigneault | 2008 Boudreau | 2009 Julien | 2010 Tippett | 2011 Bylsma | 2012 Hitchcock | 2013 MacLean | 2014 Roy | 2015 Hartley | 2016 Despite | 2017 Tortorella | 2018 Gallant | 2019 despite
Head coach: Jack Laviolette (1909–1910) | Adolphe Lecours (1910-1911) | Napoléon Dorval (1911-1913) | Jimmy Gardner (1913-1915) | Newsy Lalonde (1915-1922) | Léo Dandurand (1922–1926) | Cecil Hart (1926-1932) | Newsy Lalonde (1932-1934) | Léo Dandurand (1934–1935) | Sylvio Mantha (1935-1936) | Cecil Hart (1936–1939) | Jules Dugal (1939) | Babe Siebert (1939–1940) | Pit Lépine (1939-1940) | Dick Irvin (1940–1955) | Toe Blake (1955-1968) | Claude Ruel (1968-1970) | Al MacNeil (1970-1971) | Scotty Bowman (1971-1979) | Bernie Geoffrion (1979) | Claude Ruel (1979-1981) | Bob Berry (1981-1984) | Jacques Lemaire (1984–1985) | Jean Perron (1985–1988) | Pat Burns (1988-1992) | Jacques Demers (1992-1995) | Jacques Laperrière (1995) | Mario Tremblay (1995–1997) | Alain Vigneault (1997-2000) | Michel Therrien (2000-2003) | Claude Julien (2003-2006) | Bob Gainey (2006) | Guy Carbonneau (2006-2009) | Bob Gainey (2009) | Jacques Martin (2009-2011) | Randy Cunneyworth (2011-2012) | Michel Therrien (2012–2017) | Claude Julien (since 2017)
General Manager: Jack Laviolette & Joseph Cattarinich (1909–1910) | George Kennedy (1910-1921) | Léo Dandurand (1921–1935) | Ernest Savard (1935-1936) | Cecil Hart (1936–1939) | Jules Dugal (1939-1940) | Tommy Gorman (1940-1946) | Frank J. Selke (1946–1964) | Sam Pollock (1964–1978) | Irving Grundman (1978-1983) | Serge Savard (1983-1995) | Réjean Houle (1995-2000) | André Savard (2000-2003) | Bob Gainey (2003-2010) | Pierre Gauthier (2010–2012) | Marc Bergevin (since 2012)
Head Coach:
Detroit Cougars & Detroit Falcons:
Art Duncan (1926–1927) |
Duke Keats (1927) |
Jack Adams (1927–…)
Detroit Red Wings: Jack Adams (… –1947) | Tommy Ivan (1947-1954) | Jimmy Skinner (1954-1958) | Sid Abel (1958–1968) | Bill Gadsby (1968–1969) | Sid Abel (1969-1970) | Ned Harkness (1970-1971) | Doug Barkley (1971) | Johnny Wilson (1971-1973) | Ted Garvin (1973) | Alex Delvecchio (1973–1975) | Doug Barkley (1975) | Alex Delvecchio (1975–1977) | Larry Wilson (1977) | Bobby Kromm (1977–1980) | Ted Lindsay (1980) | Wayne Maxner (1980-1982) | Billy Dea (1982) | Nick Polano (1982-1985) | Harry Neale (1985) | Brad Park (1985-1986) | Jacques Demers (1986–1990) | Bryan Murray (1990-1993) | Scotty Bowman (1993-2002) | Dave Lewis (2002-2005) | Mike Babcock (2005-2015) | Jeff Blashill (since 2015)
General Manager: Art Duncan (1926–1927) | Jack Adams (1927–1962) | Sid Abel (1962–1971) | Ned Harkness (1971-1974) | Alex Delvecchio (1974–1977) | Ted Lindsay (1977–1980) | Jimmy Skinner (1980-1982) | Jim Devellano (1982-1990) | Bryan Murray (1990-1994) | Jim Devellano & Scotty Bowman (1994-1997) | Ken Holland (1997-2019) | Steve Yzerman (since 2019)
Head coach: Maurice Richard (1972) | Maurice Filion (1972–1973) | Jacques Plante (1973–1974) | Jean-Guy Gendron (1974–1976) | Marc Boileau (1976–1978) | Maurice Filion (1978) | Jacques Demers (1978–1980) | Michel Bergeron (1980–1981) | Maurice Filion (1981) | Michel Bergeron (1981–1987) | André Savard (1987) | Ron Lapointe (1987-1989) | Jean Perron (1989) | Michel Bergeron (1989–1990) | Dave Chambers (1990-1991) | Pierre Pagé (1991-1994) | Marc Crawford (1994-1995)
General Manager: Jacques Plante (1973–1974) | Maurice Filion (1974–1988) | Martin Madden (1988–1990) | Maurice Filion (1990) | Pierre Pagé (1990-1994) | Pierre Lacroix (1994-1995)
Head Coach: Lynn Patrick (1967) | Scotty Bowman (1967-1970) | Al Arbor (1970-1971) | Scotty Bowman (1971) | Sid Abel (1971) | Bill McCreary (1971) | Al Arbor (1971-1972) | Jean-Guy Talbot (1972–1974) | Lou Angotti (1974) | Lynn Patrick (1974) | Garry Young (1974-1975) | Lynn Patrick (1975-1976) | Leo Boivin (1976) | Emile Francis (1976-1977) | Leo Boivin (1977–1978) | Barclay Plager (1978–1979) | Red Berenson (1979-1982) | Emile Francis (1982) | Barclay Plager (1982-1983) | Jacques Demers (1983–1986) | Jacques Martin (1986–1988) | Brian Sutter (1988-1992) | Bob Plager (1992) | Bob Berry (1992-1994) | Mike Keenan (1994-1996) | Jim Roberts (1996-1997) | Joel Quenneville (1997-2004) | Mike Kitchen (2004-2006) | Andy Murray (2006-2010) | Davis Payne (2010-2011) | Ken Hitchcock (2011-2017) | Mike Yeo (2017-2018) | Craig Berube (since 2018)
General Manager: Lynn Patrick (1967–1968) | Scotty Bowman (1968-1971) | Lynn Patrick (1971–1972) | Sid Abel (1972–1973) | Charles Catto (1973–1974) | Garry Ehman (1974-1975) | Dennis Ball (1975–1976) | Emile Francis (1976-1983) | Ron Caron (1983-1994) | Mike Keenan (1994-1996) | Ron Caron (1996-1997) | Larry Pleau (1997-2010) | Doug Armstrong (since 2010)
Head coach: Terry Crisp (1992–1997) | Rick Paterson (1997) | Jacques Demers (1997-1999) | Steve Ludzik (1999-2001) | John Tortorella (2001-2008) | Barry Melrose (2008) | Rick Tocchet (2008-2010) | Guy Boucher (2010-2013) | Jon Cooper (since 2013)
General Manager: Phil Esposito (1991–1998) | Jacques Demers (1998–1999) | Rick Dudley (1999-2002) | Jay Feaster (2002-2008) | Brian Lawton (2008-2010) | Tom Kurvers (2010) | Steve Yzerman (2010-2018) | Julien BriseBois (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Demers, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montréal , Québec |