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Article: Lemaire's brand of hockey has spread like wildfire
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- February 9, 2003
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Lemaire's brand of hockey has spread like wildfire
TOM GULITTI
Date: 02-09-2003, Sunday
Section: SPORTS
Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday
Philadelphia Flyers' coach Ken Hitchcock was talking recently about
the similarities between himself and Devils' coach Pat Burns.
"Both of us come from different pasts, but both of us coach the way
Montreal played in the 70s and 60s," Hitchcock said.
Call the system what you want. When Jacques Lemaire was the head coach
of the Devils, somebody labeled it the neutral-zone trap. Lemaire
always insisted his teams had been playing it for years, back to the
days when he was playing and winning Stanley Cups with the ...