Jacques Lemaire, who coached the Devils to their first Stanley Cup title in 1995, was inducted into the team's Ring of Honor on Wednesday.

I once asked Cup-winning Devils center Bobby Holik to name the best five coaches in National Hockey League annals. "I'll make it easier for you," Holik shot back. "Jacques Lemaire is the first best." Then a pause: "And there are no runners-up!

NEWARK, N.J. -- It wasn’t until the last period of the last game of the 1995 Stanley Cup Final that New Jersey Devils coach Jacques Lemaire finally thought to himself, "You know, this might be possible." Lemaire was coach of the Devils, who swept the Detroit Red Wings in the ’95 Final for the franchise’s first championship.

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Entraîneur-chef le plus victorieux de l'histoire des Devils et gagnant de 11 coupes Stanley, Jacques Lemaire a été intronisé à l'anneau d'honneur de l'organisation.

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The New Jersey Devils honored former coach Jacques Lemaire, inducting the 11-time Stanley Cup champion into the team’s Ring of Honor

In mid-November last year, Jacques Lemaire received an unexpected phone call from a few old friends. On the other line were two of his former players, Hall of Famer Martin Brodeur and Devils current assistant coach Sergei Brylin.

when the team inducts legendary player and head coach Jacques Lemaire. Everyone calls Lemaire the Father of the “Neutral Zone” Trap, but he learned from those great Montreal Canadiens teams of ...