FILE - In this Nov. 14, 1997, file photo, Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jacques Demers works behind the bench during his first game against the New York Islanders in Tampa, Fla. Demers, the Stanley ...

MONTREAL- NOVEMBER 22: Former Montreal Canadiens goalie Patrick Roy embraces his former head coach Jacques Demers during his retirement ceremony before the game against the Boston Bruins at the Bell ...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Demers has been hospitalized. Demer's director of parliamentary affairs confirmed Saturday that the 72-year-old Demers, a Canadian ...

MONTREAL – Jacques Demers, the former NHL coach turned Canadian senator, says he will have a third operation after nearly dying during a botched hernia procedure. The 66-year-old Demers made his first ...

MONTREAL (AP) — Former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Demers was in stable condition Friday, two days after having a stroke. Sandra Sciangula of the McGill University Health Centre said the ...

MONTREAL – Jacques Demers, who coached the Montreal Canadiens to the Stanley Cup in 1993 and was later a general manager in the NHL, admits in a newly released biography that he is illiterate. “I ...

Years after revealing that he once was functionally illiterate, Jacques Demers is back in Israel looking for more gold in his second stint coaching a Canadian hockey squad. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Of all ...

Jacques Demers, who coached the Montreal Canadiens to the Stanley Cup in 1993 and was later a general manager in the NHL, writes in a biography that he is illiterate. “I could read a little bit, but I ...

MONTREAL (AP) — Former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Demers is getting better every day and has begun eating after a recent stroke, his doctors said Friday. The 71-year-old Demers, now a Canadian ...

MONTREAL (AP) — Former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Demers was in a Montreal hospital Thursday, a day after having a stroke. The 71-year-old Demers is now a Canadian senator. Claude Carignan, the ...

MONTREAL (AP) — Former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Demers was in stable condition Friday, two days after having a stroke. Sandra Sciangula of the McGill University Health Centre said the ...

Jacques Demers, who began his coaching career in Chicago with the now-defunct WHA Courgars and later led the Canadiens to the Stanley Cup in 1993, admits in a new biography that he is illiterate. “I ...