Guy Lafleur
Guy Lafleur
Guy Damien "The Flower" / "Le Démon Blond" Lafleur, OC, CQis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who was the first player in the National Hockey Leagueto score 50 goals and 100 points in six straight seasons. Between 1971 and 1991, he played for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Quebec Nordiques in an NHL career spanning 17 seasons, and five Stanley Cup championships...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth20 September 1951
CityThurso, Canada
family support-you vocabulary-words
When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
caps family felt higher players relationship salary
The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.
five points shoot sit six
I'm not going to say that now that I have 1,000 points I can sit down and relax. I've got five or six years to go and I can shoot for more.
nice years parent
It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.
guy together firsts
I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore.
thank-you nice careers
It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.
hockey games play
Play every game as if it's your last one
team player nhl
A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.
captains boat call-me
The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.
giving long crowds
The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.
kids parent shapes
I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget.
night important downtown
I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.
eight should-have years
That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.
numbers years two
After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.