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Article: Lemaire has had grand time behind the bench in the NHL; Tonight will be the head coach's 1,000th NHL regular season game. More than half of those have been with the Wild.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 18, 2007
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Byline: Kent Youngblood; Staff Writer
Tonight Jacques Lemaire will coach his 1,000th NHL regular season game. But it's a milestone he might not have reached had a labor dispute not shut down the league for the 2004-05 season.
"That year I realized that I am missing something," Lemaire said Monday.
Lemaire, the only coach in Wild history, had been thinking of retirement. He'd spent his life in the game, but maybe it was time for more of a life away from it. He had won eight Stanley Cups as a Hall of Fame player in Montreal, had won two more while a member of the Canadiens' front office and his 11th while coaching in New Jersey.
Maybe, he thought, it was time. ...
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