Jacques Demers

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This article is about hockey coach Jacques Demers. For the lawyer, see William John Jacques Demers.

Jacques Demers (b. August 25, 1944 in Montreal, Quebec) is a former French Canadian head coach for the National Hockey League Montreal Canadiens, Québec Nordiques, St. Louis Blues, Detroit Red Wings and Tampa Bay Lightning. He has won two consecutive Jack Adams Awards with Detroit in 1987 and 1988, the only person to do this in consecutive years. In 1993, he led Montreal to its most recent Stanley Cup. He is currently working as a commentator for the French Canadian sports network RDS.

On November 2nd 2005, Jacques Demers released a biography, written by Mario Leclerc, titled En toutes lettres (All Spelled Out in English) where he revealed that he is functionally illiterate.

As of 2007, he was named the 100th most influential personality in hockey by The Hockey News magazine.

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• Former NHL Coach admits illiteracy - CTV news

St. Louis Blues Head Coaches
Patrick • Bowman • Arbour • Abel • McCreary • Talbot • Angotti • Young • Boivin • Francis • Plager • Berenson • Demers • Sutter • B. Plager • Berry • Keenan • Roberts • Quenneville • Kitchen • Murray

Detroit Red Wings Head Coaches
Duncan • Adams • Ivan • Skinner • Abel • Gadsby • Harkness • Barkley • J. Wilson • Garvin • Delvecchio • L. Wilson • Kromm • Lindsay • Maxner • Dea • Polano • Neale • Park • Demers • Murray • Bowman • Lewis • Babcock

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

Tampa Bay Lightning Head Coaches
Crisp • Paterson • Demers • Ludzik • Tortorella

Preceded by Gerry Moore	Head Coaches of the Indianapolis Racers 1975–1977	Succeeded by Ron Ingram
Preceded by Terry Slater	Head Coaches of the Cincinnati Stingers 1977–1978	Succeeded by Floyd Smith
Preceded by Maurice Filion	Head Coaches of the Quebec Nordiques 1978–1980	Succeeded by Maurice Filion
Preceded by Barclay Plager (interim)	Head Coaches of the St. Louis Blues 1983–1986	Succeeded by Brian Sutter
Preceded by Brad Park	Head Coaches of the Detroit Red Wings 1986–1990	Succeeded by Bryan Murray
Preceded by Pat Burns	Head Coaches of the Montreal Canadiens 1992–1995	Succeeded by Mario Tremblay
Preceded by Rick Paterson (interim)	Head Coaches of the Tampa Bay Lightning 1997–1999	Succeeded by Steve Ludzik