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  Guy Lafleur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guy Damien Lafleur, OC (born September 20, 1951 in Thurso, Quebec), is one of the greatest and most popular players ever to play professional ice hockey.
As a small boy, Guy Lafleur's love of hockey was such that he would sleep in his hockey outfit then be up at the crack of dawn to race to the locked skating rink where he found a way inside to practice.
Lafleur and the Habs swept the Bruins in 1977
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 Guy Lafleur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Guy Lafleur, with his name immortalized on Lord Stanley's Cup 5 times, was a fascinating player to watch, combining speed and strength with an uncanny ability to put the puck past opposing goalies.
Lafleur was named to the NHL first team All-Stars 6 times, won the Art Ross Trophy 3 times, the Lester B. Pearson Award 3 times, the Hart Trophy twice, the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1977, and led the NHL in plus/minus in 1978.
Lafleur is also honored with a trophy of his own, the Guy Lafleur Trophy, handed to the most valuable player during the playoffs in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
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 CBC Sports: NHL should file for bankruptcy: Lafleur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lafleur thinks the NHL is sick and needs to start all over in order to save the game of hockey.
Lafleur, who scored 560 goals and amassed 1353 points in 17 NHL seasons, believes the league and the union has to come together on a new CBA that ensures affordable ticket prices for hockey fans.
Lafleur also said there are too many teams (30) in the NHL right now and hopes the end of the current lockout will see a scaled-back league.
www.cbc.ca /story/sports/national/2004/10/27/Sports/guylafleur041027.html   (426 words)

  
 New York Rangers Roster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lafleur went on to top 50 goals six years in a row (a record at the time), including a high of 60 in 1977-78.
Lafleur become the youngest player in NHL history to score 400 goals and the youngest to reach 1,000 points.
The Guy Lafleur trophy is awarded annually to the playoff MVP in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
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 Guy Lafleur Biography, pictures and stats - Hockey Fans
Guy "The Flower" Lafleur was born on September 20, 1951 in Thurso, Quebec, Canada.
Lafleur's junior career in the QMJHL was capped by his final two seasons as a Quebec Rempart with him scoring 233 goals.
During his prime, Guy Lafleur had a unique combination of speed, style and scoring touch that made him one of the most exciting NHL players.
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 Guy Lafleur: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
(Lafleur gained considerable recognition for his play as a member of the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject], EHandler: no quick summary.
Lafleur started his major league-level hockey career in 1971 with the once dominant Montreal Canadiens[For more info, click on this link].
(Lafleur was the predecessor to the rise of hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky[For more, click on this link] during the 1980s[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] and 1990s[For more info, click on this link].
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guy_lafleur.htm   (1462 words)

  
 CBC Sports: Lafleur sucker-punched on vacation
Lafleur was sucker-punched by a thief during a robbery attempt a week ago in Buenos Aires as he, his wife and another couple were getting off a shuttle.
Guy Lafleur is nursing a fl eye from a sucker-punch while on vacation in South America.
Lafleur said the robbers vanished as quickly as they appeared and the incident wasn't reported to police because the travellers didn't want to lose time.
www.cbc.ca /storyview/AOLNC/sports/national/2006/02/26/Sports/lafleur_punched_vacation060226.html   (211 words)

  
 LaFleur and Bossy2 - Washington Capitals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lafleur became eligible for the NHL Draft in 1971.The Canadiens had won the Stanley Cup that season after finishing fourth in the overall standings.
Lafleur was chosen winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs’ MVP once, in 1977.
Guy Lafleur and Mike Bossy were the type of players who gave everyone a lot to remember.
www.washingtoncaps.com /history/LaFleurandBossy2.asp   (1864 words)

  
 NHL Player Biographies-Guy Lafleur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lafleur followed that season up with a spot on the 1976-77 Canada Cup Team, and again that same year racked up 56 goals and led the league with 80 assists for 136 points.
In those days Lafleur was still racking up over a point a game, but when your normal level of play is 2 points a game, it might be viewed as your production has slid by 50%.
His speed left most opponents playing catch up, his moves to get to open ice or feather a pass to a team mate left you wondering just how he saw the opening and his stickhandling ability made you think the puck was glued to his stick as he quickly shifted and moved around the ice.
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 Oldtimers' Hockey Challenge - Players - Guy Lafleur
Scouts had been watching Lafleur as he led the Remparts to the Memorial Cup in 1971, and Montreal GM Sam Pollock was keen on ensuring Lafleur wound up in a Montreal sweater.
Lafleur joined the Montreal Canadiens the very fall he was drafted and became the first player in NHL history to score at least 50 goals and 100 points in six consecutive seasons.
Lafleur was a First Team all-star in all six of those consecutive 50-goal seasons and won the scoring title three times, the Hart Trophy twice and the Conn Smythe Trophy once.
www.oldtimershockey.com /players/lafleur.html   (2211 words)

  
 Pittsburgh Penguins - Team | Feature Story: MONTREAL MEMORIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Growing up, Guy Lafleur was my idol, said Penguins' defenseman Marc Bergevin, who tried to emulate the former Canadiens' great during pick up games during the 1970s.
Lafleur was the star in Montreal during Bergevin's childhood and helped lead the fabled club to five Stanley Cups during his 14 years in Montreal, including four consecutive championships from 1976-79.
Lafleur had just retired and Roy, it was only his first or second year.
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 Finder on the Web: Guy Lafleur looks back on his own hockey come back   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lafleur scored 18 goals in his comeback season, 1988-89 with the New York Rangers.
Lemieux and Bergevin, members of the Mosquito-division Hurricanes in their Montreal suburb of Ville Emard, were weaned watching Lafleur and the hometown team on television.
Lafleur had retired early in November of the 1984-85 season, the rookie NHL year for Lemieux and Bergevin.
www.post-gazette.com /sports/columnists/20010122webfinder2.asp   (971 words)

  
 guy lafleur - Find, Compare, and Buy at Shopping.com
Guy Lafleur Autograph hofand Goal (Mandn) (Canadiens) Jersey (G) This item is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Mounted Memories.
Guy Lafleur (the Flower) was known as one of the greatest right wingers ever to play the game and one of the most exciting offensive players of all ti...
Guy Lafleur Autographed Montreal Canadiens Puck with HOF 1988 Inscription
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 TSN.ca - Print Story - Canada's Sports Leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lafleur said consideration has to be given to the fate of teams in the smaller Canadian markets, noting that Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Ottawa and even Montreal are all struggling in his mind.
Lafleur said he can't understand why so many NHL players - 231 as of Wednesday - are skating in Europe for a couple of hundred thousand dollars and won't play at home for a couple of million dollars.
Lafleur said if the impasse is not resolved by Christmas he doubts there will be a season left to salvage.
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 Kaboose: Entertainment - Remembering Guy Lafleur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Guy Lafleur, Montreal scoring machine, was the best hockey player of the 1970s.
Guy Lafleur also known as "Le Demon Blond" the blond devil) was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988.
Remembering Guy Lafleur is beautifully designed and packed with vintage photos and sport articles.
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 Selling out   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Guy Lafleur, along with Jean Beliveau and Maurice Richard, are regarded as the holy trinity to generations of Canadiens' fans.
Items range from five of Lafleur's miniature 13-inch Stanley Cups, representing championships he won with the Canadiens in the 1970s, to six miniature Prince of Wales championship trophies presented to the regular season NHL conference champs.
Lafleur's 1977 Conn Smythe Trophy, awarded to him as the MVP in playoffs at Boston Garden after Montreal swept the Bruins, is going.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20010416/SP_001.htm   (2173 words)

  
 Steve Khan Guy Lafleur Lead Sheet
But perhaps, a tune like "Guy Lafleur" is as good an example as to why people have come to view the music of Eyewitness as something from the "Beyond Latin Jazz" zone.
Like many of the tunes from this period, "Guy Lafleur" seems to have 3 fundamental sections, though I think that [A] and [B] could be considered as part of the same section.
As I have just returned from touring Europe, and having performed "Guy Lafleur" often with Joel Rosenblatt and Charles Flores, it served as testament that, if a tune, such as this, is performed with sound musical execution, even after some 25 years, it will still function well.
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Guy Lafleur Autographed New York Rangers Puck with HOF 1988 Inscription
Guy Lafleur (the Flower) was known as one of the greatest right wingers ever to play the game and one of the most exciting offensive players of all time.
Guy became the first player in NHL history to score at least 50 goals and 100 points in six consecutive seasons.
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 TheStar.com - Guy Lafleur sucker-punched in vacation robbery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
08:05 PM MONTREAL — Hockey legend Guy Lafleur was used to taking knocks on the ice but wasn't ready for a robber's punch during a recent South American vacation.
Lafleur, his wife and another couple were waylaid by three thugs on motorcycles a week ago in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as they got off a shuttle.
Lafleur was also on the receiving end of a fist which gave him a fl eye.
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 Guy Lafleur - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
A native of Quebec, Lafleur began his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1971.
Guy Lafleur Autographed "HOF and GOAL" Montreal Canadiens Mitchell and Ness Throwback...
This is the number worn by Guy LaFleur with the 1972-1973 Montreal Canadiens.
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 3 Wing - News
Guy Lafleur becomes the new honorary colonel of 12 Radar Squadron of Bagotville
Lafleur is probably the best representative of the fighting spirit that fired the powerful team that made up the Montreal Canadiens in the1970s.
Lafleur is a recipient of the Order of Canada and Order of Québec.
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 Canadiens de Montreal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Canadiens legend Guy Lafleur, joined by Molson’s Monique Depatie and selection committee member Jocelyn Proteau (far right), honored trophy winners Guillaume Monast, Guillaume Desjardins-Demers, Simon Marcotte-Legare, and Mathieu Poitras on Tuesday afternoon.
MONTREAL – The Canadiens and Molson announced Tuesday the recipients of the Guy Lafleur Awards of Excellence and Merit for the 2004-05 season.
Molson will award recipients of the Guy Lafleur Awards of Excellence a $6,000 scholarship given out over a three-year period and the winners of the Guy Lafleur Awards of Merit a $1,000 scholarship.
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 CANADIAN UNIVERSITY SPORTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Other Guy Lafleur awards of merit went to Montreal natives Guillaume Desjardins-Demers (Cape Breton, QMJHL), who will be attending McGill in the fall, plus Guillaume Monast (Collège Antoine-Girouard, Midget AAA) and Simon Marcotte-Légaré (Collège Français, QJAHL).
The Lafleur trophy marks the 16th award this season for Poitras, a mechanical engineering freshman, who becomes the 11th McGill player in 21 years to win the award, also known as le Prix d`excellence Guy-Lafleur.
The 6-foot, 185-pound netminder, who won the Forbes trophy as McGill`s male athlete of the year, joined the Redmen last fall after four seasons in the QMJHL for the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies and a tryout with the NHL`s Anaheim Mighty Ducks.
www.universitysport.ca /e/print_story.cfm?ID=4881   (501 words)

  
 09/07/01: Guy LaFleur named to be Viagra spokesperson.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ex-NHL great, Guy LaFleur, will be extolling the virtues of Viagra in doing its part in the battle against limp noodles.
LaFleur says that he doesn't have a problem, "yet", and Pfizer Canada says that this will preclude all the jabs that Bob Dole took when he began shilling for the boner pill.
Pfizer reasons that Dole, who admitted he had a problem, will be treated more kindly than the expert stickhandler, LaFleur, who doesn't have a problem.
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 G4 Forums - X-Play Celebrity Deathmatch IX: Guy LaFleur vs. Bear in a Field   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Guy LaFleur vs. a bear in a field...
I thought Guy and the Canadian guy were two different people.
Guy Branum (pronounced G-EYE) is the real name of the big fat guy, while Guy LaFleur (pronounced GEE) is the fake name of the Canadian character.
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 Guy Lafleur Posters: "Guy Lafleur" photograph and 2 more.
Guy Lafleur Posters: "Guy Lafleur" photograph and 2 more.
Jean Beliveau, Henri Richard, and Guy Lafleur with Stanley Cup
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 Amazon.com: Remembering Guy Lafleur: Books: Craig MacInnis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
"The Flower," as Guy Lafleur was affectionately known to fans, registered six consecutive 50-goal seasons in the 1970s,and played on five Stanley Cup winners.
WHEN 19-YEAR-OLD GUY LAFLEUR stepped onto the ice at Garden City Arena in St. Catharines on May 2, 1971, a friend and I hurried down to the end boards to watch the enemy take his pregame skate.
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 Lafleur says NHL should start over - Hockey Forums
Lafleur played from '71 - '85 and from '88 to '91.
Lafleur played during a time in the '70's and '80's when players earned their money and were paid well.
Every fan's favorite Chris Chelios is now about to (or just completed) signing on with an AHL team, thoughtlessly taking a roster spot away from some low level guy who needs it a lot more than he does.
www.hockeyforums.com /showthread.php?t=9513   (1329 words)

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